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.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Art
  • War
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• I'm always trying to find 'connections' between things. That art is the juxtaposition of a lot of things that seem unrelated but add up to something recognizable.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Up
  • Trying
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• Contemporary art will help me to modernise our society.

  

  Victor Pinchuk
  • Art
  • Help
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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.

  

  H. R. Giger
  • Work
  • Art
  • Elegance

• 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.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • People
  • Art
  • Business

• 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.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • Work
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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.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Mind
  • Art
  • Game

• Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.

  

  Mae West
  • Love
  • Art
  • For Her

• 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.

  

  Larry Ellison
  • Art
  • Start
  • Modern

• Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Art
  • Truth
  • Lie

• You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny, and hope that whatever your art is that you're putting out there, if it's received, great, I respect you for receiving it. If it's not received, great, I respect you for not.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Great
  • Live
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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.

  

  Walter Crane
  • People
  • Art
  • Free

• 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.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Art
  • Job
  • Myself

• 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.

  

  Maggie Nelson
  • Art
  • Me
  • Attention

• 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
  • Art
  • Chinese
  • Japanese

• 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.

  

  Tamara Mellon
  • Good
  • Art
  • Write

• 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.

  

  Takashi Murakami
  • Art
  • Famous
  • Japan

• All art is a confession.

  

  Gaston Lachaise
  • Art
  • Confession

• 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.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Great
  • Art
  • Inspired

• A man is a poet if difficulties inherent in his art provide him with ideas; he is not a poet if they deprive him of ideas.

  

  Paul Valery
  • Art

• The engaged mind stays sharp and retains tremendous capacity.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Mind

• I worry that we're not getting enough of the news that we need to make informed judgments as citizens.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Worry
  • Enough
  • News

• In 2010, conservatives won big majorities in the Wisconsin State Legislature, and I openly supported many of their reforms, including changes to collective bargaining and expansions of school choice.

  

  Charlie Sykes
  • School

• If one does not understand the usefulness of the useless and the uselessness of the useful, one cannot understand art.

  

  Eugene Ionesco
  • Art
  • Useless