Hans Arp Quotes
I like nature but not its substitutes... Mondrian opposed art to nature saying that art is artificial and nature is natural. I do not share this opinion... Art's origins are natural.
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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
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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.
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I studied engineering in the national university, the Universidad Autonoma, in San Ildefonso. There is art everywhere, murals on the walls. It's beautiful.
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The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.
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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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I've been writing fiction probably since I was about 6 years old, so it's something that is second nature to me now. I just sit down and start writing. I don't sit down and start writing and it comes out perfectly - it's a process.
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Tell the lie over and over and over. It's an art that Trump understands well. There's no better evidence than his absolutely false claim that he opposed the Iraq War in 2002.
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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.
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Filmmaking is a very privileged art form. It costs a lot of money to make these things.
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Dealing with those personalities and the people who run this music thing has been most challenging. It's hard to really communicate things to people who run a business yet forget the nature of the business. They only look at the bottom line and the financial return, you know, they forget what it is they're packaging. It's art.
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It's the nature of the beast, playing sports on the ski team and how competitive all of us are. I want to beat everybody's time.
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My inspiration comes from the common man and nature.
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For the Chinese, the Greeks, the Mayans, or the Egyptians, nature was a living totality, a creative being. For this reason, art, according to Aristotle, is imitation; the poet imitates the creative gesture of nature.
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All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.
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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.
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My background was art school, documentary director and surfer with a keen interest in thrilling acts of life threatening stupidity.
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I think I went to Italy initially for the art, architecture, food and history, but I stayed there because of the people in Cortona.
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Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.
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All those instances to be found in history, whether real or fabulous, of a doubtful public spirit, at which morality is perplexed, reason is staggered, and from which affrighted Nature recoils, are their chosen and almost sole examples for the instruction of their youth.
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I've spent most of my life embracing violence in wars and revolutions. Even a famine is a form of violence. Because I photograph people in peril, people in pain, people being executed in front of me, I find it very difficult to get my head around the art narrative of photography.
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I never have celebrity crushes.
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I started selling insurance in 1979 and continued doing that until 1985 when I opened my own insurance firm.
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There was never a good biography of a good novelist. There couldn't be. He is too many people if he's any good.
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I like nature but not its substitutes... Mondrian opposed art to nature saying that art is artificial and nature is natural. I do not share this opinion... Art's origins are natural.
