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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You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
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Art is always criticized and always an outsider gets the blame.
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The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.
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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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Our first manager really pushed that we not sell our publishing rights, which is one of the earliest things an artist will do: They'll sell in order to get a cash advance.
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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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Every good painter paints what he is.
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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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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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All art is propaganda, and ever must be, despite the wailing of the purists. I stand in utter shamelessness and say that whatever art I have for writing has been used always for propaganda for gaining the right of black folk to love and enjoy. I do not care a damn for any art that is not used for propaganda.
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We feel more and more intensely about the music we make. It's unexpected, and not always what you would think of in Beach House. It's all art in the end. We aren't making records because we have to; it's because it's what we want to express.
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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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The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this ideal and to me appears to lead to a purely decorative conception of painting.
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With Ibrahim al-Koni, what I figured out was - and you'll see this in his novels - if your time is limited, make the unit of the chapters small so that you can finish one a day, at least in the first draft. Once you have the first draft it's living, and you can coax it to grow and trim it and reshape it and so on. But get that first draft. I think if I'd gone to an MFA program and learned that, it would have been money well spent. But translation has been that for me.
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Women are needed in the military because there aren't enough soldiers, and we're seeing more women serve.
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Because I express myself through the music, I want to be responsible in that expression and how it carries on well after I'm here. But that's just me.
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An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.
