Eunice Kathleen Waymon (Nina Simone) Quotes
Music is an art and art has its own rules. And one of them is that you must pay more attention to it than anything else in the world, if you are going to be true to yourself. And if you don't do it - and you are an artist - it punishes you.
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Politics is the art of the next best.
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I hate these platforms that are all over the place today; they are all about grabbing attention. They are suburban! I never do a platform. Well, I did, in the 1970s, but that was a bad experience.
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Through a painting we can see the whole world.
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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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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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I've always been a fan of sci-fi, fantasy, and horror. I like working with larger-than-life characters in fascinating worlds - places where the rules are different.
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The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
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Attention may sound dull, but it is an essential aspect of consciousness. In fact, it governs what it is that we turn out to be conscious of, and therefore plays a part in the coming into being of whatever exists for us.
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Any character that can't be kept straight, to me, isn't a character who should be in the book – you know, anyone not vivid enough to have a claim on my attention.
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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.
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The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode.
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Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
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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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If I'm creating a free-form piece of art, I can make it look like anything I want, and nobody will say it's wrong.
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To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
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Art is the way people see things, and I think it's great when individuals can find in fashion something they truly believe is artistic.
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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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It is art, and art only, that reveals us to ourselves.
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As an artist, I'm really inspired by everything around me - from travel and art, to friends and family, social voices in media and politics. I get a lot of inspiration from daily life.
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If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.
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Every time someone asks me who I want to work with, my answer is always the same: whoever wants to work with me that won't want to get their ego stroked.
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The most nurturing of directors can make you feel too comfortable, and you don't really push for that extra whatever.
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Music is an art and art has its own rules. And one of them is that you must pay more attention to it than anything else in the world, if you are going to be true to yourself. And if you don't do it - and you are an artist - it punishes you.
