Tom Wesselmann Quotes
Growth is the goal, and that goal is never complete—art must be in constant change.
Tom Wesselmann
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Frank Capra, Hollywood's Horatio Alger, lights with more cinematic know-how and zeal than any other director to convince movie audiences that American life is exactly like the 'Saturday Evening Post' covers of Norman Rockwell. 'It's A Wonderful Life,' the latest example of Capracorn, shows his art at a hysterical pitch.
Manny Farber
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Japan is already a leader in energy efficiency, and it has a wealth of innovative technologies. We must put this expertise to use creating a model for growth and sustainability that we can share with the world.
Yoshihiko Noda
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Self-censorship is a lie to yourself; if you are going to be trying to seriously create art, to create literary art, and you decide to hold back, to censor yourself, then you are a fool to yourself and it would be better that you kept your mouth shut and did not speak.
Salman Rushdie
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The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
Salvador Dali
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It was never my goal to be an actor.
Rachel Hurd-Wood
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Art is a mind-game that we do to make our lives easier. If it isn't for that, it becomes superfluous.
Yoko Ono
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My desire to be a physician had a lot to do with that sense of medicine as a ministry of healing, not just a science. And not even just a science and an art, but also a calling, also a ministry.
Abraham Verghese
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Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity.
Yoko Ono
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Do activities you're passionate about - which make your heart and soul feel perky - including things like working out, cooking, painting, writing, yoga, hiking, walking, swimming, being in nature, being around art, or reading inspiring books.
Karen Salmansohn
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I guess tennis is my main art, but fashion is definitely very close.
Venus Williams
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Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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In its essence, any art that relies on words makes use of their ability to eat away - of their corrosive function - just as etching depends on the corrosive power of nitric acid.
Yukio Mishima
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I think everyone needs a goal. And what kind of goal will be important. And for that we have to study and we have to be intelligent.
Tadao Ando
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I definitely storyboard, but I only start once I have cast and location. I like to find the world first.
Garth Davis
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The work of democratic government is routinely concerned with matters defined as troubles. In "The Presidency and the Press" I make the point, familiar to anyone who has flown about the world much, that the best quick test of the political nature of a regime is to read the local papers on arrival. If they are filled with bad news, you have landed in a libertarian society of some sort. If, on the other hand, the press is filled with good news, it is a fair bet that the jails will be filled with good men.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
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In everything I've written, the crime has always just been an occasion to write about other things. I don't have a picture of myself as writing crime novels. I like fairly strong narratives, but it's a way of getting a plot moving.
Peter Temple
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We were not 100 percent against Hamburg but our (unbeaten domestic) run is over and maybe that will ease the pressure a bit.
Oliver Kahn
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Growth is the goal, and that goal is never complete—art must be in constant change.
Tom Wesselmann
