Udo Kier Quotes
When you start in movie business... It is a business, actually. Nothing to do with art. Picasso is art, and Giacometti, but film acting is no art. Just the luck of being discovered, maybe.
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I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business, middle-class people who were rather vain and foolish. There was no revolutionary grandeur to it. Nothing.
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What we won't become is a 'Democratic Party lite!' We are a party that wants smaller government and lower taxes. Obama and the Democrats do not. We are a party that wants to encourage small business. We are a party that has a large constituent group that believes in a social agenda and we will not abandon them.
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When I write a movie, I write it for me.
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Art is always an exaggeration in some sense; in color, in form, even in theme, etc... but it has always been this way. It is the same with the nature of some works by Giotto or Massacio, or the color of life as expressed by Van Gogh.
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Getting into the residential investment business entails lots of renovation work.
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My family always encouraged my drawing ability. Kids in school who teased me about my reading would get out of their seats and stand behind my desk as I worked and go, 'Wow, you can really draw.' Later, I earned a degree in Fine Art and got a Ph.D. in Art History.
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A nice blend of prediction and surprise seem to be at the heart of the best art.
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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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When people take advantage of you and make a business out of it, that's not nice.
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Some of the biggest movie stars in the world are essentially characters.
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Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.
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When you make art, you get really invested in it. When art happens by accident and you were just along for the ride? It's way more fun.
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Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves.
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The journey of your first movie is not just beyond belief it can be truly beyond satire.
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It's very hard to find perfection in your life. But in the art world you can do that.
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The job at Brooklyn is interesting because Brooklyn reflects what happened to university art departments everywhere. It might be the worst department now, and yet at one point it was the best in the country.
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Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
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I haven't done a marathon for a long time. So we'll see. I will need good luck.
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A lot of family members worked in the joint commodities family business. It was a classic case of capitalism at work and socialism at home.
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Time is not important, but art is.
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I try to live intentionally, and the things that move me, I'm going to throw myself at them. I want to see what my potential is. I'm always curious to see what the edge is.
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Non-fiction is a big responsibility. Rationality. Facts. The urgent need to reflect some small aspect of reality. But fiction is a private autism, a self-referential world in which the writer is omnipotent. Gravity, taxes, and death are mere options, subject to the writer's fancy.
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I was working for the CIA and prohibited from speaking publicly.
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When you start in movie business... It is a business, actually. Nothing to do with art. Picasso is art, and Giacometti, but film acting is no art. Just the luck of being discovered, maybe.
