William Blake Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Art should be an oasis: a place or refuge from the hardness of life.
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The modern tradition is the tradition of revolt. The French Revolution is still our model today: history is violent change, and this change goes by the name of progress. I do not know whether these notions really apply to art.
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I've always loved massive worlds, whether in fantasy or science fiction. I like the idea of making my own rules as well as utilizing everything that I love or inspires me. It's very freeing to know you can write a story that can be as big as your own imagination.
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Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.
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Surreal fiction is a sophisticated art form. Events happen divorced from conventional logic, as events in a dream may happen. But unlike dreams, everything in the story contributes to an overall coherent point, impression or emotion.
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There was a time when I was practicing law in New York and I wanted to find something else to do. So I ended up leaving the practice of law to pursue my art and it just happened to be out of Lego bricks.
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Besides black art, there is only automation and mechanization.
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Contemporary art will help me to modernise our society.
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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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Music is an art that touches the depth of human existence; an art of sounds that crosses all borders.
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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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In schools giving students a full education, not to create great artists but about the right to have full expression and imagination and creativity, along with an acknowledgement that everybody learns differently. You try and you fail and you try again. All those skills are useful in the workplace, too.
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They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
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I was a pretty pretentious kid. I was always making art.
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I work in the film business, where schmoozing is an art form, lunch hour lasts from 12:30 until 3, and every meeting takes an hour whether there's an hour's worth of business or not.
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I feel like now fashion is just part of how I think about everything. When I send out a mood board to our contributors every month about our monthly theme, there are photos from our fashion shows, but there are also film stills and album art.
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They're not poodles, they're art.
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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.
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We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
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Every Hindu boy and girl should possess sound Sanskrit learning.
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I watched R.E.M. connect with the back row of a 50,000-seat venue.
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The USA experiences the crisis of ideological and moral values.
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If you were my friend, I love you unconditionally. I like you the same way I like everyone else that's around me.
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Art degraded, Imagination denied.
