Oliver Gaspirtz Quotes
Books like Twilight are not art. They are mass-produced crap that is meant to be consumed by the widest possible audience, for the largest possible profit.Oliver Gaspirtz
Quotes to Explore
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The world of fiction is a sovereign world that comes to life in the author's head and follows the rules of art, of literature. And that is the major difference that is reflected in the form of the work, in its language and its plot. An author invents every aspect of a fiction, every detail.
Imre Kertesz -
I like elegance. I like art nouveau; a stretched line or curve. These things are very much in the foreground of my work.
H. R. Giger -
A book is a gift you can open again and again.
Garrison Keillor -
I enjoy it too much - even if I knew I'd never get a book published, I would still write. I enjoy the experience of getting thoughts and ideas and plots and characters organised into this narrative framework.
Iain Banks -
I don't read horror, ever. When I was 15, I made the mistake of reading part of 'The Exorcist.' It was the first and last horror book I've ever opened.
Dan Brown -
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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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 -
Art is a mind-game that we do to make our lives easier. If it isn't for that, it becomes superfluous.
Yoko Ono -
Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it.
Walter Pater -
Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.
Mae West -
Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.
Malala Yousafzai -
I want a platform that, like a book or a magazine, I can carry into the bath or leave at the beach.
Walter Jon Williams
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In life and art, there are distinctions to be made between what an act of cruelty consists of.
Maggie Nelson -
Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
Pablo Picasso -
The ultimate, if distant, aim of the Bauhaus is the unified work of art - the great structure - in which there is no distinction between monumental and decorative art.
Walter Gropius -
My sense of what a book should be has changed so radically. I like to think for the better.
E. L. Doctorow -
When I sit down to begin penciling a page, most of the hard work for me is done. I can concentrate solely on my art from that point on, which is the fun part!
Raina Telgemeier -
Be with someone who is kind. I think that's it. Just to love one another was the thing I would want to do. It's a thing that you can't stop doing.
Garth Brooks
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We're not teaching our students the importance of relationships with other people: how you work with them, what the relational pathology consists of, how you examine your own conscience, how you examine the inner world, how you examine your dreams.
Irvin D. Yalom -
She didn’t know which she liked less, having people tell lies about her or having people know the truth.
Tad Williams -
Things that are unique and rare will cost a lot of money. Houses in East Hampton and Malibu will cost a lot of money because there just aren't that many of them. The value of sports has appreciated because it's the only thing that people have to watch live.
John Skipper -
Putting Zodiacs in front of whaling vessels doesn't do it anymore. Done that, been there, seen that.
Paul Watson -
Books like Twilight are not art. They are mass-produced crap that is meant to be consumed by the widest possible audience, for the largest possible profit.
Oliver Gaspirtz