Eugene Ionesco Quotes
If one does not understand the usefulness of the useless and the uselessness of the useful, one cannot understand art.
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You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
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Contemporary art will help me to modernise our society.
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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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The record business is dangerous to the health of bands and individuals, which is something I'm just now learning. But it's not dangerous in any of the ways people think; it's not that they try to make you compromise your art. That's not the problem.
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I work in the film business, where schmoozing is an art form, lunch hour lasts from 12:30 until 3, and every meeting takes an hour whether there's an hour's worth of business or not.
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Art is a mind-game that we do to make our lives easier. If it isn't for that, it becomes superfluous.
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I'm going to start these art museums that are basically converted homes, and I have one for modern art, and I have one for 19th century European art, and one for French impressionism. I've got Japanese.
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Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
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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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My job is art curator, not artist. All I have ever wanted to do is immerse myself in art, to enjoy it, to learn about it, to write about it, to talk to others about it.
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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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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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When you get divorced, you have to go through this awful thing of listing everything you own. When you actually sit down and write the list, you realize that the only good investments are art and property.
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In Japan, I am famous in certain special circles - mainly as someone who is trying to break down and enlighten the conventions of Japanese art.
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All art is a confession.
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Great Art is Great because it inspired you greatly. If it didn't, no matter what the critics, the museums and the galleries say, it's not great art for you.
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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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A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk.
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Lacan is a tyrant who must be driven from our shores. Narrowly trained English professors who know nothing of art history or popular culture think they can just wade in with Lacan and trash everything in sight.
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Especially for those of us who lived in single cells, you had the time to sit down and think, and we discovered that sitting down just to think is one of the best ways of keeping yourself fresh and able, to be able to address the problems facing you, and you had the opportunity, also, of examining your past.
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Don't stop after you reach your goals; aim to surpass them!
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If you have any doubt about the degree with which this is self-defense, just look at those pictures from September 11th.
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The stories we are told shape the way we see the world, which shapes the way we experience the world.
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If one does not understand the usefulness of the useless and the uselessness of the useful, one cannot understand art.
