Henry Kissinger Quotes
The art of good foreign policy is to understand and to take into consideration the values of a society, to realize them at the outer limit of the possible.
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I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.
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Art is always criticized and always an outsider gets the blame.
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Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
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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.
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A nice blend of prediction and surprise seem to be at the heart of the best art.
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I was bringing the whole music, hip-hop, art, break dancing and urban cultural thing to the downtown table.
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To keep art stimulating, it's important to open it up to new horizons, which includes showing it in unexpected contexts.
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It makes me happy to think that this world of art-as-investment is a minuscule fraction of the art world overall. Most people who create, trade and own art do it for a much simpler reason. They just like it.
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I think that music is still art, even if it's commercialised.
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All the art for Tool is done by the me and the band.
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An album is a whole universe, and the recording studio is a three-dimensional kind of art space that I can fill with sound. Just as the album art and videos are ways of adding more dimensions to the words and music. I like to be involved in all of it because it's all of a piece.
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Life is not an exact science, it is an art.
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Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.
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My father's violence is the central fact of my art and my life.
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I was brought up Catholic, and I felt the power of art from a very young age - seeing the brutality of all those images of flayed apostles and tortured saints was a pretty strong introduction.
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The art market was very different before the mid-1980s: then, art was all about passion, whereas now it's become a commodity.
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I am guilty of using dollar signs as proof of a work of art's longevity.
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Do activities you're passionate about - which make your heart and soul feel perky - including things like working out, cooking, painting, writing, yoga, hiking, walking, swimming, being in nature, being around art, or reading inspiring books.
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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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Many people seem to think that art is a luxury to be imported and tacked on to life. Art springs out of the very stuff that life is made of. Most of our young authors start to write a story and make a few observations from nature to add local color. The results are invariably false and hollow. Art must spring out of the fullness and richness of life.
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It's fun to be a little bit different in the world, to make a few new trails of your own.
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Woody Harrelson and I actually worked together years ago on North Country. So I felt completely at ease.
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Mother, an accomplished musician, taught me to play the piano as a very small girl.
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The art of good foreign policy is to understand and to take into consideration the values of a society, to realize them at the outer limit of the possible.
