William Morris Quotes
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It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.
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Ikea people do not drive flashy cars or stay at luxury hotels.
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I feel like Adele is a diva. Not in the bad way. She is one of the greatest voices of this industry and of her own art. What she offers is so unique that she's risen to such a status that very few artists can enjoy.
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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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The world of fiction is a sovereign world that comes to life in the author's head and follows the rules of art, of literature. And that is the major difference that is reflected in the form of the work, in its language and its plot. An author invents every aspect of a fiction, every detail.
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I remember I heard it in an interview with Michael Jackson one day, saying the art is gone, everybody makes records just to make a record. See, I always want the artist that try to build a whole body of music on one album, so you can enjoy it. So you could say, 'I went with him here, I went with him here.'
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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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Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
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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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Cultural tourism surveys consistently rate San Francisco's art industry as a core reason for visiting.
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It's good to make your own things because you can have control of your own 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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Any art communicates what you're in the mood to receive.
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The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode.
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You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny, and hope that whatever your art is that you're putting out there, if it's received, great, I respect you for receiving it. If it's not received, great, I respect you for not.
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My painting does not come from the easel.
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I don't feel comfortable with luxury, and I try to stay fairly normal.
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I don't know why we, in the art world, cannot unpack things and sort of make hybrid notions of a practice. We're very rigid. It's funny, though; in music, we have no problem sampling, mixing and remixing. But in the art world, why can't we take little parts of history and mix it together?
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Art degraded, Imagination denied.
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Poetry's unnat'ral; no man ever talked poetry 'cept a beadle on boxin' day.
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My greatest strength is common sense. I'm really a standard brand - like Campbell's tomato soup or Baker's chocolate.
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Burnett fidgeted. She had never seen Burnett like this. He looked like a kid who needed to go to the bathroom.
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The greatest foe to art is luxury, art cannot live in its atmosphere.
