Esa-Pekka Salonen Quotes
In Europe, there is so much tradition, and everyone has established ideas as to what art should be and what it has always been.
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I feel like Adele is a diva. Not in the bad way. She is one of the greatest voices of this industry and of her own art. What she offers is so unique that she's risen to such a status that very few artists can enjoy.
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Frank Capra, Hollywood's Horatio Alger, lights with more cinematic know-how and zeal than any other director to convince movie audiences that American life is exactly like the 'Saturday Evening Post' covers of Norman Rockwell. 'It's A Wonderful Life,' the latest example of Capracorn, shows his art at a hysterical pitch.
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Music is an art that touches the depth of human existence; an art of sounds that crosses all borders.
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As authors, most - most authors, our art is portraying the human condition. Trying to show you what it's like to be somebody else, trying to make you feel for somebody else. That means you have to have a high degree of empathy.
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In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education.
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If you sing beautifully about nothing, no one will listen. If you sing badly about great stuff, no one will listen. Ideas are everywhere, but my theory is that a writer doesn't just think of an idea: they perform them.
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Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.
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In life and art, there are distinctions to be made between what an act of cruelty consists of.
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I love making healthy lean foods delicious - that's an art!
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Photographing a cake can be art.
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Every work of art is the child of its age and, in many cases, the mother of our emotions. It follows that each period of culture produces an art of its own which can never be repeated.
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It's true that there are people who live the idea of being an artist, as opposed to the idea of making art.
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The work of art is always unfaithful to its creator... Art lays at a higher level; it says something more, and almost always, it says something different from what the artist wanted to say.
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I mean, making art is about objectifying your experience of the world, transforming the flow of moments into something visual, or textual, or musical, whatever. Art creates a kind of commentary.
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From being at art college, I've always hated people that have the gall to think that they're being incredibly different when they're doing something in a very acceptable way, something safe that they've seen someone else doing.
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We try to preach innovation. We provide resources; we invite speakers in from universities to talk about new ideas.
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We know from many experiences that this is what the work of art does: its life - in which we have shared the alien existences both of this world and of that different world to which the work of art alone gives us access - unwillingly accuses our lives.
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Abstract art as it is conceived at present is a game bequeathed to painting and sculpture by art history. One who accepts its premises must consent to limit his imagination to a depressing casuistry regarding the formal requirements of modernism.
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It is not necessary to replace a guillotined criminal: it is necessary to replace a guillotined social system.
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I was raised Catholic, but the devil was never with a pitchfork.
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The 'Star Wars' saga is about a series of seemingly chance encounters. They impact the destiny of everyone involved.
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You can build a place that is beautiful, but nobody feels comfortable sitting in it, and the kids aren't allowed to go into many of the rooms. Or a place can look lived in, but it doesn't please the eye.
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I have made almost as many films in England as I have in America. I will come back to England again and again.
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In Europe, there is so much tradition, and everyone has established ideas as to what art should be and what it has always been.
