Ernst Haas Quotes
In every artist there is poetry. In every human being there is the poetic element. We know, we feel, we believe.
Quotes to Explore
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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 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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Show me a Scorsese film, and I'll show you a movie where he's taken risks. It's just his nature. He's an artist, and artists take risks. He always does what he believes in.
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There was danger at times that women might not be judged by the highest standards, but more leniently because of their sex. "She is a remarkably good chemist--for a woman," you might hear a man say. It seemed to me essential, if the ablest young women scholars were to achieve the best work of which they were capable, that they should be held to the most rigorous standards. ...To advance, a woman must do at least as good work as her male colleagues, usually better.
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I demand perfection in what I do, and I practice very hard before I give a concert-sometimes three to six hours a day.
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I'm always put in the unfortunate position of asking people to donate money and people I know in bands to play benefit concerts and all this stuff.
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Every time you run a 35mm print, it picks up scratches. It picks up dirt. Sometimes it breaks, and you have to re-splice it. You lose frames. This doesn't happen with digital or Blu-ray. I think that's great. Because I love the new media.
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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.
