Esperanza Spalding Quotes
Whoever you are, if you know what you're doing, you don't want other people to overtake the merit of your art.
Esperanza Spalding
Quotes to Explore
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Through a painting we can see the whole world.
Hans Hofmann
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I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with.
Salma Hayek
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Art is like breathing for me. If I don't do it, I start to choke.
Yoko Ono
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When you make art, you get really invested in it. When art happens by accident and you were just along for the ride? It's way more fun.
Patrick Stump
Fall Out Boy
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I was a screenwriting and studio art major in college, so even though I don't have any training as a floral designer, I have a very particular visual aesthetic.
Vanessa Diffenbaugh
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All art is propaganda, and ever must be, despite the wailing of the purists. I stand in utter shamelessness and say that whatever art I have for writing has been used always for propaganda for gaining the right of black folk to love and enjoy. I do not care a damn for any art that is not used for propaganda.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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Real art must always involve some witchcraft.
Karen Blixen
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Science and the arts shared the same language at the Restoration. They no longer seem to do so today. ...they lack the same language. And it is the business of each of us to make that one universal language which alone can unite art and science, and layman and scientist, in a common understanding.
Jacob Bronowski
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I'm an art collector, have been for years, and I paint. Needless to say, the artwork in my houses, apartment is extensive.
Loretta Swit
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If I ever go back to college, I'd study art education.
Frankie Cosmos
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Just because people can express themselves through their art doesn't mean they are great communicators in person.
Christie Brinkley
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I began to see cinema as the perfect combination of so many wonderful art forms - painting, photography, music, dance, theater.
James Gray
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I was always confident in my art and in myself as an artist.
Kim Weston
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If you work with love and intelligence, you develop a kind of armour against people's opinions, just because of the sincerity of your love for nature and art. Nature is also severe and, to put it that way, hard, but never deceives and always helps you to move forward.
Vincent Van Gogh
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Rome used to have good public art in ancient times. There is nothing like West of Rome in Italy.
Emi Fontana
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To me there's no creativity without boundaries. If you're gonna write a sonnet, it's 14 lines, so it's solving the problem within the container.
Lorne Michaels
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The United States can no longer rely upon foreign nations such as China to bail us out of our economic irresponsibility. We must live within our means and implement creative, free-market solutions to put Americans back in jobs and to create economic opportunities.
Pete Sessions
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Whoever you are, if you know what you're doing, you don't want other people to overtake the merit of your art.
Esperanza Spalding
