Honore de Balzac Quotes
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Growing hemp as nature designed it is vital to our urgent need to reduce greenhouse gases and ensure the survival of our planet.
Jack Herer -
Music is an art that touches the depth of human existence; an art of sounds that crosses all borders.
Daniel Barenboim -
Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us that which we desire.
Oscar Wilde -
Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
Pablo Picasso -
It's not often that the idea of continuing something for a potentially long period of time sounds exciting to me, because I really am a gypsy by nature.
Carla Gugino -
My wife is a painter, musician, and fiber artist. We married in 1993, and as she worked, I found that my reading about art was helping me understand what she was doing, just as seeing her work gave me a language with which to speak of art.
Floyd Skloot
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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 -
As a consumer, I don't create art, but I think whatever the message is, art has to touch you.
Ha-Joon Chang -
I was always trying - I never wanted to let my fans down; I always wanted them to see me in my art form.
Lady Gaga -
I feel the art world in New York has a stronger following than Britain. If you go to a New York art district on a Saturday morning, it will be so busy with families and openings - art is much more ingrained in the culture.
Sam Taylor-Wood -
Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.
Mae West -
It's human nature to want to be with other people.
Zoe Lister-Jones
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Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.
A. Bartlett Giamatti -
Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.
Daniel Bell -
There are infinite modes of expression in the world of art, and to insist that only by one road can the artist attain his ends is to limit him.
Jacob Epstein -
Tell the lie over and over and over. It's an art that Trump understands well. There's no better evidence than his absolutely false claim that he opposed the Iraq War in 2002.
Pamela Meyer -
For me, art is not 'brooding.' It comes from someplace that is more fun and that has a kind of electricity to it.
Rachel Kushner -
We're so enamored of technological advancements that we fail to think about how to best apply those technologies to what we're trying to achieve. This can mask some very important continuities in the nature of war and their implications for our responsibilities as officers.
H. R. McMaster
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In almost every task involving form, there are dozens, often hundreds of contradictory elements, which need to be forced to work in harmony by man's will. This harmony can be acheived only through art.
Alvar Aalto -
Trust not a woman when she weeps, for it is her nature to weep when she wants her will.
Socrates -
Respect the faculty that forms thy judgments.
Marcus Aurelius -
But I think funny and talent will always win out; I mean, of course there are hurdles, but I think if you're funny you will get over all of that.
Wanda Sykes -
If Woody Allen were a Muslim, he'd be dead by now.
Salman Rushdie -
Art's greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
Honore de Balzac