Aleksandra Mir Quotes
I wanted to contribute to the landscape tradition in art. By now I guess we are comfortable with the thought that man has been everywhere or affected everything in nature.
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Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.
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Politics is the art of the next best.
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I know from my own experience that great films and great actors can have a really big influence on you. There is a place for art in the world, and if you're lucky enough to be good at something and to keep being given work, it's not such a bad thing.
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I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.
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I like elegance. I like art nouveau; a stretched line or curve. These things are very much in the foreground of my work.
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A nice blend of prediction and surprise seem to be at the heart of the best art.
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As authors, most - most authors, our art is portraying the human condition. Trying to show you what it's like to be somebody else, trying to make you feel for somebody else. That means you have to have a high degree of empathy.
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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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As a consumer, I don't create art, but I think whatever the message is, art has to touch you.
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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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A lot of politics in art is just institutional critique, which, in my opinion, is not all that political.
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In life and art, there are distinctions to be made between what an act of cruelty consists of.
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My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there.
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Figure skating is a mixture of art and sport.
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Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It's rage, it's creativity, it's pain, it's hurt, but it's the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music.
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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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I really love fan art, which I get sent a lot of. I really, really get a lot of. I get a kick out of it.
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I believe that at times such as these my modest efforts may be useful to mankind. I have shown how the new art has succeeded in bringing about pure relationships, and furthermore how these can be created in day-to-day life. Mondrian tried to convince the Dutch publisher Stols to publish his new manuscript 'L'art et la vie'
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Art is violent. To be decisive is violent. ... To place a chair at a partial angle on the stage destroys every other possible choice, every other option.
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You matter to God, and every detail of your life matters to Him.
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I like moral judgment to emerge from the reader. We are being sold a very simplistic morality by our leaders at a time when nuance and understanding are at a premium.
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Something had changed-but it was not the street-The street was just the same-it was himself.
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I wanted to contribute to the landscape tradition in art. By now I guess we are comfortable with the thought that man has been everywhere or affected everything in nature.
