Andy Couturier Quotes
What art should do, I think, is advance the generation into the next era. It should be one step ahead of the ordinary, ahead of what is already known. Art is what pulls on the next age. I’m not saying that my art is that, but that it would be good if it could be.
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This is why I have always said that it would be better if Muslims were poor.
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If people don't want to come out to the ball park, nobody's gonna stop 'em.
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A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, prove today on examination to have been of immense value to mankind.
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As militias go, the Ohio Defense Force is on the moderate side.
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Comics seldom move me the way I would be moved by a novel or movie.
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Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly.
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Education is neither eastern nor western.
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Watching Republicans in Washington is like watching lemmings, if lemmings jumped into cesspools instead of off cliffs.
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I can tell you that my family in the absolute worst of times has seen the absolute best in people. And, that has given us more strength than could ever imagine.
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I'm not going to run away from my responsibilities.
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We need money. We need hits. Hits bring money, money bring power, power bring fame, fame change the game.
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You cannot put 50 years of the Marvel universe into a movie. It's impossible.
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Nothing taxes an actor more thoroughly than a good audiobook.
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I have both sleep apnea and atrial fibrillation, which are both debilitating conditions.
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I have hair that looks like you could just take it off and plug a new style on.
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I'm surprised and disappointed in American culture.
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My physical transformations - like changing my hair - are usually a reflection of what's inspiring me at the moment.
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Group W's where they put you if you may not be moral enough to join the army after committing your special crime, and there was all kinds of mean nasty ugly looking people on the bench there. Mother rapers. Father stabbers. Father rapers!
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Memory for playing a musical piece... involves a process very much like that for music listening... through establishing standard schemas and expectation. In addition, musicians use chunking... tying information together into groups, and remembering the group as a whole rather than individual pieces.
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I had a respected SF writer call me 'girlie' and demand that I get him a coffee, before the panel we were on together.
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Fautrier's exhibition in Paris 1945 made an extremely strong impression on me. Art had never before appeared so fully realised in its pure state. The word 'art' had never before been so loaded with meaning for me.
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What art should do, I think, is advance the generation into the next era. It should be one step ahead of the ordinary, ahead of what is already known. Art is what pulls on the next age. I’m not saying that my art is that, but that it would be good if it could be.
