William Cowper Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Politics is the art of the next best.
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There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
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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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Reading a piece of poetry with no beat in front of 20 people is way more challenging than rocking for 10,000 people.
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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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Movie making is not like other art forms, like painting, or writing a novel, because that can be digested or interpreted... It takes two years to make each one of these, and it's always judged on money.
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Perhaps at some time in the future, when you ask a friend to come up and look at your etchings, you will plug in your collection of video art.
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I've always loved pinup art, and I've always enjoyed drawing women. I think it was a conscious decision that has resulted in me getting almost exclusive work on comics where the main character is female.
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In life and art, there are distinctions to be made between what an act of cruelty consists of.
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All the art for Tool is done by the me and the band.
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Figure skating is a mixture of art and sport.
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You can't just take an image and randomly distort it and call it art - although many people in La Jolla where I come from do precisely that.
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You cannot say, 'Go! Go! Rah! Rah! Good move!' People want some emotion. Chess is an art and not a spectator sport.
Garry Kasparov -
Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.
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I was trying to pay the bills with poems, and it was easy to memorize my poems, because I'd be riding my bike in California trying to memorize them before going on stage at a poetry lounge.
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Movies will end up being this esoteric art form, where only singular people will put films out in a small group of theaters.
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Like most sensible people, you probably lost interest in modern art about the time that Julian Schnabel was painting broken pieces of the crockery that his wife had thrown at him for painting broken pieces of crockery instead of painting the bathroom and hall.
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I realize that I live in the same environment that I did when I was a kid, but with less junk and better art.
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I've always been obsessed by visual art as I have been by music personally, but that doesn't mean anything professionally.
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He adorned whatever subject he either spoke or wrote upon, by the most splendid eloquence.
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Even my momma asked what I'mma do. Decisions, decisions/ In case this is war, then I load up on all ammunition/ If a n----a want problems, my trigger's on auto.
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I love seeing lingerie on the runway, but I personally think it's best to save it for the bedroom!
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Great music is its own movie, already. And the challenge, as a music fan, is to keep the song as powerful as it wants to be, to not tamper with it and to somehow give it a home.
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Made poetry a mere mechanic art.
