William Cowper Quotes
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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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I want to do just, like, regular art. Whatever is made today on canvas goes up against all of art history. It's the most radical thing.
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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 -
You have to be very careful with the art you create and you put out.
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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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Serious art has been the work of individual artists whose art has had nothing to do with style because they were not in the least connected with the style or the needs of the masses. Their work arose rather in defiance of their times.
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A lot of actors on film sets... very often they're not paying attention to the physical world around them. I think through studying art, I've always had that awareness and that's something that I've wanted to bring in to go beyond acting... As a form of expression, they are intrinsically linked.
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It is true that I am a writer, and I was married to a composer, and I have lived in a small village in New England, but my children are not named Heracles and Persephone, and my daughter doesn't disappear underground every six months and emerge in the spring.
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No one likes change but babies in diapers.
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Made poetry a mere mechanic art.
