Seamus Heaney Quotes
Part of my gradual education of myself has been to think that there is a deep relationship between the nature of the creature and the worth of the art.
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I feel like Adele is a diva. Not in the bad way. She is one of the greatest voices of this industry and of her own art. What she offers is so unique that she's risen to such a status that very few artists can enjoy.
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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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The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
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In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.
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Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.
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Once you're a chess player, you spend a lot of time thinking about the game and you can't get it completely out of your head.
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You cannot say, 'Go! Go! Rah! Rah! Good move!' People want some emotion. Chess is an art and not a spectator sport.
Garry Kasparov -
Every good painter paints what he is.
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Art is based on very clear, mathematical principles like proportion and harmony. At the same time, physicists need to be inventive, to have ideas, to have some fantasy.
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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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The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.
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People ask about art and commercialism. I think that if someone tries to sell their work at a high price, that is the wrong way of doing it.
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I can remember being at Sandringham, for the first time, at Christmas. And I was worried what to give the Queen as her Christmas present. I was thinking, 'Gosh, what should I give her?'. I thought, 'I'll make her something.' Which could have gone horribly wrong. But I decided to make my granny's recipe of chutney.
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We know from many experiences that this is what the work of art does: its life - in which we have shared the alien existences both of this world and of that different world to which the work of art alone gives us access - unwillingly accuses our lives.
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We covered 'Hey Jude.' My father panicked, misunderstanding the lyrics and thinking our lead singer was belting out 'Hey, Jew' to a roomful of Holocaust survivors.
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The composer who is frightened of losing his artistic integrity through contact with a mass audience is no longer aware of the meaning of the word art.
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Cleavage Sister: 'What do you feel about erotic art?'Morrissey:'I don't know much about rotting art?'Cleavage Sister: 'What about erotic music?'Morrissey:'I know a great deal about rotting music.'
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Country and western is ignored by the intellectuals. They don't look at it as an art form. They think it's just somebody sitting on his couch singing about his life.
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I don't have long-standing regrets; they pass as I see how things are meant to be.
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People attack Scientology, I never forget it, always even the score. People attack auditors, or staff, or organizations, or me. I never forget until the slate is clear.
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Plants of great vigor will almost always struggle into blossom, despite impediments. But there should be encouragement, and a free genial atmosphere for those of more timid sort, fair play for each in its own kind.
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With a track like 'White Christmas,' everybody has done that song in every format you can imagine, so I just looked at the chords at that particular song and what chords would make it work. That's kind of quite a sad song, and I had this idea of someone singing it in the subway, someone who is homeless, old and sad.
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A story should be managed so that it should suggest interesting things to the reader instead of the author's doing all the thinking for him, and setting it before him in black and white.
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Part of my gradual education of myself has been to think that there is a deep relationship between the nature of the creature and the worth of the art.
