Ernst Haas Quotes
In every artist there is poetry. In every human being there is the poetic element. We know, we feel, we believe.

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The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.
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The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.
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Nowadays, you can be a fan of someone that's not an actor or artist. You can be a fan of someone that makes YouTube videos.
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An artist can be truly evaluated only after he is dead. At the very 11th hour, he might do something that will eclipse everything else.
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Where I come from, if you weren't a drag queen or a radical thinker or a performance artist of some kind, you were the weirdo.
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I would love to do a live show with dancers and fashion and scenic elements - definitely bring my love of the theater to a concert-style performance.
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We are going to finish this picture just the way I want it... because you cannot compromise an artist's vision.
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Gucci Mane is my favorite artist.
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My synesthesia is mostly gone - it was a much bigger factor when I was a kid. But having no depth perception is a bonus when you're trying to lay out flat images and describe them to an artist - flat is all I see.
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Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.
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I am the type of artist where you can't tell me anything. I have always been that way. I am right. I don't need any input.
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I get paid all day, every day, which is almost too much for a sensitive artist.
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Dancers have always been a kind of background image, we've always danced behind an artist or we've danced in a movie behind the actors. We've always been very secondary.
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Write a story a great writer would write. Because part of becoming an artist is pushing through all the disbelief of those around you, deciding that you are a writer when you have no idea what a plot is or whether what you've written is any good, or anything.
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To be a truly conscientious artist, you have to look at what's not working and challenge it. You riff on things.
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I leave the genre labeling to other people. I really do. If I were to think too hard about it, that would stifle you creatively. If you think too hard about who other people want you to be as an artist, it stops you from being who you want to be as an artist.
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I wanted to become an artist because it meant endless possibilities. Art was a way of reinventing myself.
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All I can say is that I am not one of those writers who want 100% of their book in the film. I recognize that film is a different medium and the filmmaker must have the right to bring some new elements to the table, provided the soul of the book is preserved.
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Work always gives me an opportunity to grow as an artist and a person.
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(knitting while on a motorcycle) For several years she knitted in secret (my father would not approve; she was to concentrate on motorcycling and LEAN into the curves, etc), and used a small circular needle (socks and mittens) in order to keep the knitting in her pocket until they were under way; then she leaned back slightly so Gaffer couldn't feel the movement of her hands. On the interstate one day, they were slowly passing a semi and my father happened to see the truck driver laugh and point out my mother's knitting to his passenger.
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Free open-source software, by its nature, is unlikely to feature secret back doors that lead directly to Langley, Va.
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The only difference between 'propaganda' and 'education,' really, is in the point of view. The advocacy of what we believe in is education. The advocacy of what we don't believe in is propaganda.
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In every artist there is poetry. In every human being there is the poetic element. We know, we feel, we believe.