Steve Jobs Quotes
Great art stretches the taste, it doesn't follow tastes.
Steve Jobs
Quotes to Explore
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Self-censorship is a lie to yourself; if you are going to be trying to seriously create art, to create literary art, and you decide to hold back, to censor yourself, then you are a fool to yourself and it would be better that you kept your mouth shut and did not speak.
Salman Rushdie
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To be a good artist, you have to serve the work of art and allow it to be what it is supposed to be.
Larry Wall
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It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.
Isaac D'Israeli
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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.
Hans-Ulrich Obrist
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In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education.
Camille Paglia
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As a consumer, I don't create art, but I think whatever the message is, art has to touch you.
Ha-Joon Chang
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The heart of the theater is the play itself, how it dramatizes life to make it meaningful entertainment. To achieve depth and universality, the playwright must subject himself to intense critique, to know human character and behavior, and finally to construct art from the most mundane of human experience.
F. Sionil Jose
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I am guilty of using dollar signs as proof of a work of art's longevity.
Barbara Goldsmith
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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.
Karen Salmansohn
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Art, freedom and creativity will change society faster than politics.
Victor Pinchuk
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I don't know a single collector or museum director who says: 'Oh, he's on a list, so I think I'll buy something of his.' The people who buy my art put a little more thought into it than that.
Olafur Eliasson
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I knew I was different. I thought that I might be gay or something because I couldn't identify with any of the guys at all. None of them liked art or music, they just wanted to fight and get laid. It was many years ago but it gave me this real hatred for the average American macho male.
Kurt Cobain
Nirvana
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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
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I think that the practice of writing every day was what made me remember that writing doesn't have anything to do with publishing books. It can be totally separate and private - a comforting thought.
Nell Freudenberger
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If discrimination based on race is constitutionally permissible when those who hold the reins can come up with "compelling" reasons to justify it, then constitutional guarantees acquire an accordion-like quality.
William O. Douglas
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I have two children. I have a Down syndrome child whom I love very much, and my wife that I love.
Sebastiao Salgado
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Great art stretches the taste, it doesn't follow tastes.
Steve Jobs
