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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The individual will reach total consciousness as a social being, which is equivalent to the full realization as a human creature, once the chains of alienation are broken. This will be translated concretely into the reconquering of one's true nature through liberated labor, and the expression of one's own human condition through culture and art.
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When I went to college, I wasn't interested in fashion anymore - I was interested in art.
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I have my own grown-up versions of temper tantrums, too. I have a hard time not getting hurt when my kids have meltdowns.
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Most men are like plants: they possess properties which chance discovers.
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Because I am hard, you will not like me. But the more you hate me, the more you will learn. I am hard but I am fair.
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Art depends on luck and talent.
