Ethan Hawke Quotes
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Self-censorship is a lie to yourself; if you are going to be trying to seriously create art, to create literary art, and you decide to hold back, to censor yourself, then you are a fool to yourself and it would be better that you kept your mouth shut and did not speak.
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I like elegance. I like art nouveau; a stretched line or curve. These things are very much in the foreground of my work.
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I was a pretty pretentious kid. I was always making art.
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I can't give a decent toast to save my life.
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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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As a consumer, I don't create art, but I think whatever the message is, art has to touch you.
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We want a vernacular in art. No mere verbal or formal agreement, or dead level of uniformity but that comprehensive and harmonizing unity with individual variety which can be developed among people politically and socially free.
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We need to do everything possible to save the Jewish state. We don't have another Jewish state.
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I really love fan art, which I get sent a lot of. I really, really get a lot of. I get a kick out of it.
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'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'
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Dealing with those personalities and the people who run this music thing has been most challenging. It's hard to really communicate things to people who run a business yet forget the nature of the business. They only look at the bottom line and the financial return, you know, they forget what it is they're packaging. It's art.
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Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.
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Art to me is not precious enough that I feel territorial about what the word gets applied to. Conversations about what counts as art and what doesn't doesn't captivate my attention very much.
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Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity.
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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.
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A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world.
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I love music videos, I really do. I think it's kind of sad that it's a dying art form.
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I wanted to start a revolution, using art to build the sort of society I myself envisioned.
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The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin his work.
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Eating is an agricultural act.
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Geoff Johns is super talented, super smart. Part of what got me excited about the Aquaman character is his re-envisioning of Aquaman, the character, with 'The New 52.'
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Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?
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Infinitely more important than sharing one's material wealth is sharing the wealth of ourselves-our time and energy, our passion and commitment, and, above all, our love.
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Sometimes people save the best part of themselves for their art.
