Paul Klee Quotes
The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.
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I feel pressure, but my emotions just don't show that much in my face.
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I never left doo wop.
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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How the visual world appears is important to me. I'm always aware of the light. I'm always aware of what I would call the 'deep composition.' Photography in the field is a process of creation, of thought and technique. But ultimately, it's an act of imaginatively seeing from within yourself.
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I don't know how it started but someone must have noticed I was always chewing tobacco or smoking a pipe.
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I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
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The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
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All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw. All the companies today are run by executives.
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There's something unnatural about losing a sibling when they're young.
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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Farmers in Missouri and across the country must comply with a variety of federal, state, and local regulations as they grow the crops and raise the livestock that we depend on to feed the nation and the world.
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I'd like to be curvier.
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I think, for me, I'm a player that wants the puck, and I'm a better player when I have it.
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I was looking for the people who were making the music inside the cabinet. I would look in there and see if I could find somebody who was making all this wonderful music.
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I was doing about five movies a year for many years. I was just so tired. I walked around feeling like a Mack truck hit me.
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A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.
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Thinking of possibilities is like driving a car on a freeway. You have an open road that stretches endlessly before you where your thoughts are not shackled. But when we say 'impossible,' we have already reached a dead-end in our minds. So dwell on possibilities to open up your horizon.
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It's a good giggle to look back at yourself in your 20s. You thought you were so fierce and fabulous, and it's just embarrassing.
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Entrepreneurship is usually about people executing in the face of other folks telling them that it's not going to work.
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The whole point of art, as far as I’m concerned, is that art doesn’t make any difference. And that’s why it’s important. Take film: you can have quite extreme emotional experiences watching a movie, but they stop as soon as you walk out of the cinema. You can see people being hurt, but even though you feel those things strongly, you know they’re not real.
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I'm very happy in my life, but I do feel that music has a power to transport you to places or to beautiful moments in your past.
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I just want people to know you can get through stuff. I hope people can see that in what my life has been and where it is going.
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Music is life itself. What would this world be without good music? No matter what kind it is.
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The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.
