Willem de Kooning Quotes
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I knew I didn't want to make a country record just because that's not really what I would have ever made as a solo artist.
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Art is always criticized and always an outsider gets the blame.
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Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
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Acting and making art is just something I love to do, and I love to tell stories that feel important, honest and necessary.
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In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education.
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What thoughts are to the individual, art is to the community as a whole. That's where you reflect on who you are, who you hope to be, what you've gone through, and where you hope to go.
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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.
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The art world is filled with vibrancy.
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Myself and David, we both love art. We have a lot of respect for Damien Hirst and Julian Schnabel, and we've met them both, and they're very interesting characters. I also have a lot of respect for the working women out there. As you know, it's not easy when you're looking after children and you have a career as well.
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If any artist abuses his audience as a means to any end, noble or ignoble, he better have a damn good reason for it.
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Life is not an exact science, it is an art.
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It is futile for an artist to try to create an environment because you have an environment around you all the time. Any living organism has an environment.
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It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.
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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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For the Chinese, the Greeks, the Mayans, or the Egyptians, nature was a living totality, a creative being. For this reason, art, according to Aristotle, is imitation; the poet imitates the creative gesture of nature.
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I don't think that much anymore in terms of 'write a record, record a record, tour a record,' because in my own mind, things have changed, in that I'm just an ongoing artist. I'm not quite sure what the next project needs to be until it presents himself, and then I know. I just follow dutifully while I'm being led.
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Do activities you're passionate about - which make your heart and soul feel perky - including things like working out, cooking, painting, writing, yoga, hiking, walking, swimming, being in nature, being around art, or reading inspiring books.
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The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.
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You will never catch up. Walk around feeling like a leaf know you could tumble at any second. Then decide what to do with your time. --The Art of Disappearing.
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Only those who see that the two sides of all phenomena, visible and invisible, are front and back or beginning and end of one reality can embrace any antagonistic situation, see its complementarity , and help others to do the same, thereby establishing peace and harmony.
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It was actually nice to get a fresh, clean slate when I came to America.
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I always tell younger filmmakers, it's not just about the acting or the art itself. It's about how big of an audience watches your film.
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I meet astrophysicists almost every week who say that they went into their line of work because of '2001.'
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An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.
