Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute.
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Art should be an oasis: a place or refuge from the hardness of life.
Fernando Botero
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I had parents in the business and they made sure that the art was the biggest concern.
Nat Wolff
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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.
Xavier Dolan
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I was at art school that had quite a celebrated film course as well. I tried for that film course when I was 18, but they said I was too young. I tried this audio and visual design course instead. Two years later, I reapplied for that higher course, but they said I was still too young and to try in five years.
Edgar Wright
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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.
Kami Garcia
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There was a time when I was practicing law in New York and I wanted to find something else to do. So I ended up leaving the practice of law to pursue my art and it just happened to be out of Lego bricks.
Nathan Sawaya
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I remember I heard it in an interview with Michael Jackson one day, saying the art is gone, everybody makes records just to make a record. See, I always want the artist that try to build a whole body of music on one album, so you can enjoy it. So you could say, 'I went with him here, I went with him here.'
Raekwon
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The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
Salvador Dali
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Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.
W. Clement Stone
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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.
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Art is a mind-game that we do to make our lives easier. If it isn't for that, it becomes superfluous.
Yoko Ono
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Figure skating is a mixture of art and sport.
Katarina Witt
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But the business side of it, as with most creative things, there is no room for business. It is about art. It's not about marketing.
Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran
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Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
Pablo Picasso
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The art world is filled with vibrancy.
Rachel Kushner
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Before I was a cosplayer, I was a fan artist. I would draw my favorite characters and sell the pieces at art auctions. But once I discovered cosplay, it was like, 'I don't have to draw my favorite characters, I can become my favorite characters.'
Yaya Han
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Cooking is an art, but all art requires knowing something about the techniques and materials. Using modernist techniques, you get more control, and that allows you to be more artistic, not less!
Nathan Myhrvold
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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 have to say that I reject somewhat the distinction between something called art and something called public art. I think all art demands and desires to be seen.
Antony Gormley
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If you don’t call it art, you’re likely to get a better result.
Brian Eno Roxy Music
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One thing I know for sure - this motherhood thing is not for sissies.
Jennifer Nettles Sugarland
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O gente umana, per volar sù nata,perché a poco vento così cadi?
Dante Alighieri
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The urge that most people feel to have kids is the exact same as the urge that I have to not have kids. I do not want to raise a child.
Jen Kirkman
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To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute.
Vladimir Nabokov