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.
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I had parents in the business and they made sure that the art was the biggest concern.
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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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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.
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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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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.
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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.'
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The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Figure skating is a mixture of art and sport.
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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.
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Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
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The art world is filled with vibrancy.
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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.'
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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!
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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.
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This is the strange undoing of a collection, of a house and of a family. It is the moment of fissure when grand things are taken and when family objects, known and handled and loved, become stuff.
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If you have any doubt about the degree with which this is self-defense, just look at those pictures from September 11th.
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I've been asked what differentiates war literature as a category, and I don't think there is anything.
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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.
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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.
