Amedeo Modigliani Quotes

The function of art is to struggle against obligation.

Amedeo Modigliani

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• I live with my family. I moved to L.A. eight years ago, and it's the same room. But I'm looking now. I might get a condo.

  

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• I like to be supportive and a role model.

  

  Rachel Platten
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• We have to be aware of our fragilities as human beings - when we see cruelty, to understand that in certain conditions, we could be cruel, too.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
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• I've had situations where producers would be like, 'Could you meet me? Take the train; don't tell your parents.'

  

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• Education is at the heart of achieving your dreams.

  

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• Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Down
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• I was in a music class when I was little, and they discovered I had a talent and could sing. From there, I joined this singing troupe in California, and I would just go sing at festivals in this girl group and perform as much as I could.

  

  Vanessa Morgan
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• Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair.

  

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• I love 'Homeland.' I think it's such a well-done, well-acted TV show.

  

  Victoria Justice
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• Even institutions of State, such as the judiciary, were seriously weakened, to the extent that the citizenry justifiably feared a breakdown in law and order. The business community was hit by a slump in sales and confidence, leading to reduced earnings and loss of jobs.

  

  Kamisese Mara
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• Regarding 'Ferris Bueller,' I was in the Czech Republic once, in Prague, making a movie at the same time as Jeffrey Jones, who played the principal, who was making a different movie. The Super Bowl was going to be playing at this bar at midnight, so we decided we would go watch the Super Bowl at this bar at midnight in Prague together.

  

  Edie McClurg
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• Fate determines many things, no matter how we struggle.

  

  Otto Weininger
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• We used to fight the LRA with only one dimensional force that only walks on foot, but now, we have got multiple forces to fight the rebels.

  

  Yoweri Museveni
  • Fight
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• We are all just cogs in a machine, doing what we were always meant to do, with no actual volition.

  

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• The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists in the circulation of their blood.

  

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• Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be 'damned if you do, and damned if you don't.'

  

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• They are in a high key, somewhat like impressionism or a modified impressionism. I think I'm still an impressionist.

  

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• We're looking to rebrand L.A. Not in some sort of radical way, but we've forgotten to sell this city, internationally and nationally... it's important for us to say who we are.

  

  Eric Garcetti
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• There's not a lot of room anymore for what I call 'made-up' drama. The drama comes from real places now - marriage takes work and focus, the kid stuff takes patience and commitment. And if you don't grow as people and as a couple, within all of that, then you've got some real drama.

  

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• Before going any further may we take it that the object of art is to obtain a partial revelation of that which is beyond human senses and human faculties – of that, in fact, which is spiritual? And that the means which we employ to induce this revelation are those very senses and faculties themselves?

  

  Ralph Vaughan Williams
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• Money-getters are the benefactors of our race. To them ... are we indebted for our institutions of learning, and of art, our academies, colleges and churches.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • Money
  • Art
  • Learning

• I don't need the money after 11 years on 'Frasier,' and there aren't that many great roles onstage left for somebody my age. I'm more interested in playing those roles than I am in playing bit parts in movies.

  

  John Mahoney
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• The function of art is to struggle against obligation.

  

  Amedeo Modigliani
  • Art
  • Function
  • Obligation