Francis Ford Coppola Quotes
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The modern tradition is the tradition of revolt. The French Revolution is still our model today: history is violent change, and this change goes by the name of progress. I do not know whether these notions really apply to art.
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You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
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I know from my own experience that great films and great actors can have a really big influence on you. There is a place for art in the world, and if you're lucky enough to be good at something and to keep being given work, it's not such a bad thing.
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Contemporary art will help me to modernise our society.
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Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.
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I remember I heard it in an interview with Michael Jackson one day, saying the art is gone, everybody makes records just to make a record. See, I always want the artist that try to build a whole body of music on one album, so you can enjoy it. So you could say, 'I went with him here, I went with him here.'
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Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us that which we desire.
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Cultural tourism surveys consistently rate San Francisco's art industry as a core reason for visiting.
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A performance art piece is unprecedented. It is difficult to censor since it has a good possibility of never being done before.
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At no point do I wish to be in conflict with any man or masculine thought. It doesn't enter my consciousness. Art is anonymous. It's not competitive with men. It's a complementary contribution.
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Every good painter paints what he is.
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The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
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Making art is not the matter of a moment, and nor is making an exhibition; curating follows art.
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Japanese people accept that art and commerce will be blended; and, in fact, they are surprised by the rigid and pretentious Western hierarchy of 'high art.'
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Paint the essential character of things.
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Talent alone gets you nowhere. You really have to have the grit, and you gotta have a love for people.
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Even when I was a little girl, I remember going to the Museum of Modern Art. I think my parents took me there once or twice. And what I really remember is the design collection.
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I wanted to start a revolution, using art to build the sort of society I myself envisioned.
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The real truth that dare not speak itself, is that no one is in control, absolutely no one... Nobody is in control. This stuff is ruled by the equations of dynamics and chaos. Now, there may be entities seeking control - the World Bank, the Communist Party, the rich, the somebody-or-others - but to seek control is to take enormous aggravation upon yourself... It's like trying to control a dream.
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We're not trying to make you less of a man. We just want you to love us as deeply and as wholesomely and as fully as we love you.
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If you were my friend, I love you unconditionally. I like you the same way I like everyone else that's around me.
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A drastic reduction in weapons competition following a general release from the commitment to the Cold War would be sharply in conflict with the needs of the industrial system.
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Life is an occasion...rise to it.
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Art depends on luck and talent.
