Oscar Wilde Quotes
The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.
Quotes to Explore
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I think that's what art is about: to provoke you. It helps me make sense of a senseless universe because I become the god of the story. I create it, and I see it in all its lineaments in my own way and can control it – in a world in which everything else is out of control.
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I'm not making films just to be bold.
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The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
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You have to understand that you are not making the film for yourself; you're making it for the audience. If I am asking my audiences to buy tickets, I owe them the worth of their money, and I owe them entertainment.
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I was bringing the whole music, hip-hop, art, break dancing and urban cultural thing to the downtown table.
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Cultural tourism surveys consistently rate San Francisco's art industry as a core reason for visiting.
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There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their foolish and random writing it would be impossible to overestimate - not to the artist, but to the public, blinding them to all but harming the artist not at all.
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I am convinced that in the arts, committees are useless.
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As long as they are working, they should be legalized. I admire so much each and every migrant. They are the most loyal workers in the U.S. economy. They build the homes of those who are attacking them.
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I wanted to make Canadian films, and I ended up making American films.
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I fell in love with the whole process of making a movie. I loved the sets. I loved watching the actors and the crew.
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Any art communicates what you're in the mood to receive.
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Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.
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In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.
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I love the idea of making a movie for kids but it's got to be that, with my take on it.
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Tell the lie over and over and over. It's an art that Trump understands well. There's no better evidence than his absolutely false claim that he opposed the Iraq War in 2002.
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Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
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In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.
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I'm done with those; regrets are an excuse for people who have failed.
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If, through the years, the Cross in the life of the believer had been adhered to as strenuously as the Cross for salvation, the Church would not today be so plagued with modernistic infidelity.
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For me, a good show is not a perfect show; it's just one where you connected. It's a show where the fans got to know you, and they realize that you're human, but they also think you're a star and that you're talented and all that good stuff.
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The more you believe in yourself, the faster you're going to get.
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I made one great mistake in my life-when I signed the letter to President Roosevelt recommending that atom bombs be made but there was some justification-the danger that the Germans would make them.
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The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.
