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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In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.
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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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Music is an art form that I love dearly, and it's allowed me to bring so many people together and meet so many people.
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The reason I make art is because I get to make a choice about who I am, what I do, and what I put out into the world, the footsteps I leave behind. It's a cliché for a reason - we all kind of work our own paths through the woods. There are not a lot of paths through the woods for someone who sings, plays the cello, and wants to tour on a human scale and create change in the world. I'm on my own path. It's pretty awesome.
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In fact, merely writing the facts on a piece of paper and stating our problem clearly goes a long way toward helping us to reach a sensible decision.
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The true call of the desert, of the mountains, or the sea, is their silence - free of the networks of dead speech.
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Sometimes people save the best part of themselves for their art.
