Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Art should be an oasis: a place or refuge from the hardness of life.
-
I'm doing a lot of things in Africa. I've formed a company with two friends of mine called Made In Africa and we are doing a lot of important things across the continent.
-
The world of fiction is a sovereign world that comes to life in the author's head and follows the rules of art, of literature. And that is the major difference that is reflected in the form of the work, in its language and its plot. An author invents every aspect of a fiction, every detail.
-
Florence is perhaps best known for being the seat of Renaissance art, and rightly so: A greatest-hits collection of artists passed through its streets - Michelangelo, Leonardo, Botticelli, and Brunelleschi among them.
-
Basically, I left Northern Telecom after 7.5 years of being in one company after school. And then, I ended up in a series of start-ups. The first of those was a company called Sitech, and they were in local area networks.
-
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.
-
After studying art, I was a painter for a while and was asked to audition for a movie randomly. I hadn't thought of acting before that.
-
Figure skating is a mixture of art and sport.
-
We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand.
-
Tell the lie over and over and over. It's an art that Trump understands well. There's no better evidence than his absolutely false claim that he opposed the Iraq War in 2002.
-
For me, art is not 'brooding.' It comes from someplace that is more fun and that has a kind of electricity to it.
-
What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.
-
It's kind of an art, going out and performing. I'd like fans to remember me as a guy who would go out and entertain them, give them quality matches, and not just the same old garbage every week.
-
While producing art works, illusions appear from time to time due to my mental illness. Every day is a struggle for me.
-
I realize that I live in the same environment that I did when I was a kid, but with less junk and better art.
-
Japanese people accept that art and commerce will be blended; and, in fact, they are surprised by the rigid and pretentious Western hierarchy of 'high art.'
-
I'm into sincerity in music and sincerity in art. If it doesn't feel true, I don't want to do it. Things that are too dramatic scare me. I think that's why I don't always fit into the world of performing arts.
-
Art to me is not precious enough that I feel territorial about what the word gets applied to. Conversations about what counts as art and what doesn't doesn't captivate my attention very much.
-
Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.
-
In Hollywood, there is no bigger commitment you can make than to a TV series. Even marriages pale in comparison. Marriages don't require signing iron-clad multiyear contracts. At least, most first marriages don't.
-
Africans require, want, the franchise on the basis of one man one vote. They want political independence.
-
The exercise of true leadership is inversely proportional to the exercise of power.
-
All the old bogeys of 'dignified subject-matter,' of 'balanced compositions,' of 'correct drawing' were laid to rest. The artist was responsible to no one but his own sensibilities for what he painted and how he painted it.
-
Tell me what company thou keepest and I'll tell thee what thou art.
