Ivor Novello Quotes
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Politics is the art of the next best.
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Books are my art. The movie is someone else's art. But it's great marketing for books.
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As authors, most - most authors, our art is portraying the human condition. Trying to show you what it's like to be somebody else, trying to make you feel for somebody else. That means you have to have a high degree of empathy.
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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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In life and art, there are distinctions to be made between what an act of cruelty consists of.
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The job at Brooklyn is interesting because Brooklyn reflects what happened to university art departments everywhere. It might be the worst department now, and yet at one point it was the best in the country.
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But the business side of it, as with most creative things, there is no room for business. It is about art. It's not about marketing.
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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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For me, art is not 'brooding.' It comes from someplace that is more fun and that has a kind of electricity to it.
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When I sit down to begin penciling a page, most of the hard work for me is done. I can concentrate solely on my art from that point on, which is the fun part!
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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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Disco deserved a better name, a beautiful name because it was a beautiful art form. It made the consumer beautiful. The consumer was the star.
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I studied math, and I was terrible at it.
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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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The study of nature is of no significance, for painting is a conventional art, and it is infinitely more worthwhile to learn to draw after w:Holbein.
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Real art must always involve some witchcraft.
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The language of art is constituted precisely by the fact that it speaks to the self-understanding of every person, and it does this as ever present and by means of its own contemporaneousness. Indeed, precisely the contemporaneousness of the work allows it to come to expression in language. Everything depends on how something is said.
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Creating a wonderful drama is an art form, while comedy is just entertainment.
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I think what I do is borderline art. Most people who do borderline art have to have other jobs, so I'm very grateful.
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The man who renounces himself, comes to himself.
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After the end of the Second World War it was a categorical imperative for us to declare that we renounced war forever in a central article of the new Constitution.
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I want my work to reflect my level of gifts and talent
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Love-making is an art which must be studied.
