Ishmael Reed Quotes
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I know from my own experience that great films and great actors can have a really big influence on you. There is a place for art in the world, and if you're lucky enough to be good at something and to keep being given work, it's not such a bad thing.
Sally Hawkins -
Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.
Pablo Picasso -
Murderers, in general, are people who are consistent, people who are obsessed with one idea and nothing else.
Ugo Betti -
I like the idea of the comedy of resilience.
Oscar Isaac -
I think that's what art is about: to provoke you. It helps me make sense of a senseless universe because I become the god of the story. I create it, and I see it in all its lineaments in my own way and can control it – in a world in which everything else is out of control.
T. C. Boyle -
The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
Salvador Dali
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I wanted to be an animator originally. I went to art school; I went to art college and everything. But that screen was just calling me.
Damon Wayans, Jr. -
I feel like now fashion is just part of how I think about everything. When I send out a mood board to our contributors every month about our monthly theme, there are photos from our fashion shows, but there are also film stills and album art.
Tavi Gevinson -
When I was growing up as a little girl and as a teenager, I loved designing and making dogs' clothes and wanting to be a fashion designer. I took art and ceramics. I loved dance.
Mae Jemison -
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 -
For me, as an actor, there is no commercial or independent or art cinema. For me, it's a character that is given by the director. And it is a task for me that I have to fulfill it to the best of my ability regardless of the kind of film that it is.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui -
What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.
Oscar Wilde
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I realize that I live in the same environment that I did when I was a kid, but with less junk and better art.
Narciso Rodriguez -
Art is the way people see things, and I think it's great when individuals can find in fashion something they truly believe is artistic.
Olivier Theyskens -
My background was art school, documentary director and surfer with a keen interest in thrilling acts of life threatening stupidity.
Yahoo Serious -
Even when I was a little girl, I remember going to the Museum of Modern Art. I think my parents took me there once or twice. And what I really remember is the design collection.
Barbara Kruger -
I guess tennis is my main art, but fashion is definitely very close.
Venus Williams -
What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.
W. H. Auden
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Art was born as a desire, not as a demand.
Eliel Saarinen -
My goal is to be weirder than everybody else and hope that no one stops me. So far, no one has.
Alexandra Petri -
If you see the Sopranos, you're not going to be speaking in the Shakespearean English.
Lucy Liu -
Free enterprise is not a bad idea and has produced art.
Ishmael Reed