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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I have spent my life paying attention to my art form, developing my art form, worrying about my show and what I'm bringing to people, making sure that I give them a fine trade.
Gallagher
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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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Teaching at university isn't like teaching in an art school.
Barbara Kruger
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The heart of the theater is the play itself, how it dramatizes life to make it meaningful entertainment. To achieve depth and universality, the playwright must subject himself to intense critique, to know human character and behavior, and finally to construct art from the most mundane of human experience.
F. Sionil Jose
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I do not want to repeat myself. I want to reach for something I've never attained. This is the excitement of art.
T. C. Boyle
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As much as we'd like to believe that our work is great and that we're infallible, we're not. Hollywood movies are made for the audience. These are not small European art films we're making.
Harold Ramis
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We recognize the distinctness of Asian art when we turn to its traditional forms, recognize it as Japanese, Chinese and Indian, even Balinese or Thai.
F. Sionil Jose
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Failure is essential. Trial and error is necessary.
David Bergen
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Compliant children are very easily led when they are young, because they thrive on approval and pleasing adults. They are just aseasily led in their teen years, because they still seek the same two things: approval and the pleasing their peers. Strong-willed children are never easily led by anybody--not by you, but also not by their peers. So celebrate your child's strength of will throughout the early years...and know that the independent thinking you are fostering will serve him well in the critical years to come.
Barbara Coloroso
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I welcome new words, or old words used in new ways, provided the result is more precision, added color or greater expressiveness.
William Lewis Safir
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The past is no longer yours; the future is not yet in your power. You have only the present wherein to do good.
Alphonsus Liguori
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I think we all like to see ourselves as good dads, but there's also that fear, 'Oh, I don't want to be like my father,' or, 'I hope my kid doesn't turn out like me.' You know, I have those feelings too. So the key is optimism.
Ben Affleck
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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
