Joshua Reynolds Quotes
A painter must compensate the natural deficiencies of his art. He has but one sentence to utter, but one moment to exhibit. He cannot, like the poet or historian, expatiate.
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I design all my sets. With my tour and my album artwork, I co-design that with people who are better at drawing than me. But I've got a good imagination. I went to art school so I understand how to communicate my ideas.
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The world of fiction is a sovereign world that comes to life in the author's head and follows the rules of art, of literature. And that is the major difference that is reflected in the form of the work, in its language and its plot. An author invents every aspect of a fiction, every detail.
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I was a pretty pretentious kid. I was always making art.
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Cultural tourism surveys consistently rate San Francisco's art industry as a core reason for visiting.
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Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is rare.
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I realize that I live in the same environment that I did when I was a kid, but with less junk and better art.
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All Heaven is within thee, Man, And all of Hell within thy heart: What thou dost choose and will to have, That hast thou wheresoe'er thou art.
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There still remained, for all men to share, the linked worlds of love and art. Linked, because love without art is merely the slaking of desire, and art cannot be enjoyed unless it is approached with love.
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I started to make a study of the art of war and revolution and, whilst abroad, underwent a course in military training. If there was to be guerrilla warfare, I wanted to be able to stand and fight with my people and to share the hazards of war with them.
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I also take pleasure in the so-called negative power in Grotjahn's work. That is, I love his paintings for what they are not. Unlike much art of the past decade, Grotjahn isn't simply working from a prescribed checklist of academically acceptable, curator-approved 'isms' and twists.
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Going through the Chagrin Falls school system, I always thought I was going off to art school.
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I got into music, I was in a band, I was at art school. I was quite trendy, although I'd hate to meet myself. The over-preening, the pretentiousness, the arrogance of youth! I think, 'Oh, that guy was so full of himself.'
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It is essential to do everything possible to attract young people to opera so they can see that it is not some antiquated art form but a repository of the most glorious music and drama that man has created.
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Art imitates life and, sometimes, life imitates art. It's a weird combination of elements.
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I think of horror films as art, as films of confrontation. Films that make you confront aspects of your own life that are difficult to face. Just because you're making a horror film doesn't mean you can't make an artful film.
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Games can be art, and they can be significant and all the glorified things that we want them to be. But if you ask a kid if their toys are important, they'll say 'yes,' and 'Please don't take them away.'
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Some couples could not work together but we enjoy working on our projects and building our art business.
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I think reading a room - reading the personalities, reading body language - is kind of a lost art.
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I want to take Ryan Seacrest's job. I want his job on 'American Idol.'
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The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.
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Hope will break your heart all over again.
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Any good biography has to got to lead you to the work. Many biographers have started out in love with their subjects and ended up hating them.
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A sweaty Macbeth with blood on his arms coming in fresh from the battle doesn't interest me.
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A painter must compensate the natural deficiencies of his art. He has but one sentence to utter, but one moment to exhibit. He cannot, like the poet or historian, expatiate.
