William Cowper Quotes
Blest be the art that can immortalize,--the art that baffles time's tyrannic claim to quench it.
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In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting.
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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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Contemporary art will help me to modernise our society.
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Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.
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The record business is dangerous to the health of bands and individuals, which is something I'm just now learning. But it's not dangerous in any of the ways people think; it's not that they try to make you compromise your art. That's not the problem.
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Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
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Great art - or good art - is when you look at it, experience it and it stays in your mind. I don't think conceptual art and traditional art are all that different.
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A performance art piece is unprecedented. It is difficult to censor since it has a good possibility of never being done before.
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Any art communicates what you're in the mood to receive.
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All the art for Tool is done by the me and the band.
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I'm not particularly interested in painting, per se. I'm interested in a painting that has that mysterious life to it. Anything that doesn't partake of that magic is halfway dead - it returns to its physical elements, it's just paint and canvas.
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Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
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We want a vernacular in art. No mere verbal or formal agreement, or dead level of uniformity but that comprehensive and harmonizing unity with individual variety which can be developed among people politically and socially free.
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For me, as an actor, there is no commercial or independent or art cinema. For me, it's a character that is given by the director. And it is a task for me that I have to fulfill it to the best of my ability regardless of the kind of film that it is.
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The concept of commercialism in the fashion and art world is looked down upon. You know, just to think, 'What amount of creativity does it take to make something that masses of people like?' And, 'How does creativity apply across the board?'
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Art is my life and my life is art.
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Life is not an exact science, it is an art.
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When I was in college, being a magician was not the classiest thing to be. It was like being a folk singer before Bob Dylan.
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Back in the States, women play flag football, but they have the same opportunities as the guys do.
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I'd like to die like my old dad, peacefully in his sleep, not screaming like his passengers.
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Blest be the art that can immortalize,--the art that baffles time's tyrannic claim to quench it.
