Allison Joseph Quotes

Poetry is such an ancient art, and I consider myself young within that art.

Allison Joseph

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• I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.

  

  Ed Westwick
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• But only art and music have the power to bring peace.

  

  Yoko Ono
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• I design all my sets. With my tour and my album artwork, I co-design that with people who are better at drawing than me. But I've got a good imagination. I went to art school so I understand how to communicate my ideas.

  

  Paloma Faith
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• Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.

  

  Pablo Picasso
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• Art is like breathing for me. If I don't do it, I start to choke.

  

  Yoko Ono
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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.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
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• Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.

  

  Malcolm de Chazal
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• Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.

  

  Mae West
  • Love
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  • For Her

• 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.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Writing
  • Money
  • Art

• I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Think
  • Culture
  • Poetry

• I motivate what I see in young people because we employ about forty thousand young people in our various Chick-fil-A units. Some of them come to work because they need to work; others just work because they just like to work. There's nothing wrong with that.

  

  S. Truett Cathy
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  • Young

• I'd like to do some crazy art installations and design some weird synthesizers and work with other people and make some fun stuff for a bit. Maybe tap into virtual reality stuff or maybe write another record... We'll see.

  

  Flume
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• You'd be surprised how many kids and young people come to the website and send me email that they are actually going into the Marine Corp because of something that I said or did.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
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  • Kids
  • Said

• 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.

  

  Octavia Spencer
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• My painting does not come from the easel.

  

  Jackson Pollock
  • Art
  • Painting
  • Come

• I was a visual artist primarily and a writer, even from a very young age.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Age
  • Artist
  • Young

• If I'm creating a free-form piece of art, I can make it look like anything I want, and nobody will say it's wrong.

  

  Nathan Sawaya
  • Art
  • Want
  • Free

• Life is not an exact science, it is an art.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Life
  • Art
  • Science

• I have never separated the writing of poetry from prayer. I have grown up believing it is a vocation, a religious vocation.

  

  Derek Walcott
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Religious

• A piece of art is not a loaf of bread. When someone steals a loaf of bread from the store, that's it. The loaf of bread is gone. When someone downloads a piece of music, it's just data until the listener puts that music back together with their own ears, their mind, their subjective experience. How they perceive your work changes your work.

  

  Jeff Tweedy
  • Work
  • Music
  • Mind

• Many queer and trans people live - and lived - in our prison and jails, in our homeless shelters, in run-down houses and apartment buildings, and on the corners of every major city. Marriage equality doesn't help them; and the potential loss of momentum for trans/queer rights after this win could well hurt them.

  

  Chelsea Manning
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• It's pretty easy in theatre. The comedy's either physical or verbal, and you're looking at the whole frame at once. But TV executives want close-ups. I keep telling them to look at Preston Sturges' movies. He'll do a whole scene without a cut in it, and it's a riot.

  

  Don Scardino
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  • Comedy
  • Theatre

• I never actively went out and studied the American accent. I just came over here to the States, and it was something I was able to do. Like, I never struggled with it.

  

  KJ Apa
  • American

• Poetry is such an ancient art, and I consider myself young within that art.

  

  Allison Joseph
  • Art
  • Poetry
  • Young