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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Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
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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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First of all, I've been having a wonderful run of luck with cover albums, songs I didn't write. I had five pop cover albums and two Christmas albums, and they were all very successful.
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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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We should purify our innate well of contentment - what a wonderful expression - and then external things will be in harmony with us.
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Instead, we were given a publication called the Weekly Reader, which was like a newspaper for four-foot illiterates.
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All good writing comes out of aloneness.
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I’ve been to the Mountaintop.
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I played it right because that's what you're supposed to do – play it right and with respect.
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Art depends on luck and talent.
