Michiko Kakutani Quotes
The current memoir craze has fostered the belief that confession is therapeutic, that therapy is redemptive and that redemption equals art, and it has encouraged the delusion that candor, daring and shamelessness are substitutes for craft, that the exposed life is the same thing as an examined one.
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Art is always criticized and always an outsider gets the blame.
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When I was younger, I had no interest. But after I went to Paris to see the collections for the first time a few years ago, they made a huge impression on me. I realized that fashion is an art form, like acting or painting.
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Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.
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Art is like breathing for me. If I don't do it, I start to choke.
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It's good to make your own things because you can have control of your own art.
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White supremacy is a very, very popular and trenchant belief in this country's history and heritage.
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Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
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I believe that your religion should be between you and whoever your belief is in.
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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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The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
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Cooking is an art, but all art requires knowing something about the techniques and materials. Using modernist techniques, you get more control, and that allows you to be more artistic, not less!
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What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.
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Washington, D.C., has everything that Rome, Paris and London have in the way of great architecture - great power bases. Washington has obelisks and pyramids and underground tunnels and great art and a whole shadow world that we really don't see.
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Whereas fiction is a continual discovery of what one wants to say, what one feels, what one means, and is, in that sense, a performance art, biography requires different skills - research and organization.
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We recognize the distinctness of Asian art when we turn to its traditional forms, recognize it as Japanese, Chinese and Indian, even Balinese or Thai.
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There was an exhibition in Munich in 1937, 'Degenerate Art,' which included work by Klee, Kandinsky, Beckmann and many others. The work was called 'sick' and put in the trash heap. The sentiments expressed toward contemporary art by Jesse Helms, Pat Robertson and Mayor Giuliani recall the language used by the Nazis.
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Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!
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Why is art beautiful? Because it's useless. Why is life ugly? Because it's all ends and purposes and intentions.
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I guess the argument of contextuality is that anything is okay as long as it's done by people who are sufficiently unlike you.
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Y-y-you know what? Fine! Go ahead, join the Black Eyed Peas! I-I-I don't need you...I don't need anybody! runs away crying
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One man's justice is another's injustice; one man's beauty another's ugliness; one man's wisdom another's folly.
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In my mind, as long as I did what was right for me, I was cool. But that's not the way it works. You have to think about other people and take their feelings into account.
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The career isn't guaranteed for as long as you might want to play.
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The current memoir craze has fostered the belief that confession is therapeutic, that therapy is redemptive and that redemption equals art, and it has encouraged the delusion that candor, daring and shamelessness are substitutes for craft, that the exposed life is the same thing as an examined one.
