Anne Hollander Quotes
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The world of fiction is a sovereign world that comes to life in the author's head and follows the rules of art, of literature. And that is the major difference that is reflected in the form of the work, in its language and its plot. An author invents every aspect of a fiction, every detail.
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Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.
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I think that's what art is about: to provoke you. It helps me make sense of a senseless universe because I become the god of the story. I create it, and I see it in all its lineaments in my own way and can control it – in a world in which everything else is out of control.
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I was bringing the whole music, hip-hop, art, break dancing and urban cultural thing to the downtown table.
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My career? I never think of it as a 'career.' Art and music and all those things that I'm creating are just part of me.
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Music is art to me, and you don't censor art. You don't go into a museum and censor things.
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Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
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For me, as an actor, there is no commercial or independent or art cinema. For me, it's a character that is given by the director. And it is a task for me that I have to fulfill it to the best of my ability regardless of the kind of film that it is.
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All art is propaganda, and ever must be, despite the wailing of the purists. I stand in utter shamelessness and say that whatever art I have for writing has been used always for propaganda for gaining the right of black folk to love and enjoy. I do not care a damn for any art that is not used for propaganda.
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Rule of art: Cant kills creativity!
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And when they encounter works of art which show that using new media can lead to new experiences and to new consciousness, and expand our senses, our perception, our intelligence, our sensibility, then they will become interested in this 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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When one loves one's Art no service seems too hard.
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Graffiti's always been a temporary art form. You make your mark and then they scrub it off.
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I love music videos, I really do. I think it's kind of sad that it's a dying art form.
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All the genres of philosophy, science, high art, athletics and politics were invented by men. But by the Promethean law of conflict and capture, woman has a right to seize what she will and vie with man on her own terms.
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Abstract art as it is conceived at present is a game bequeathed to painting and sculpture by art history. One who accepts its premises must consent to limit his imagination to a depressing casuistry regarding the formal requirements of modernism.
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These dangers inherent in the very idea of humanitarianism and altruism, dangers which have to-day produced their full harvest of human waste, of inequality and inefficiency, were fully recognized in the last century at the moment when such ideas were first put into practice.
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No art ever survived censorship; no art ever will.
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All art needs this visible world and will always need it. Quite simply because, being accessible to all, it is the key to all other worlds.
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This is a tough business, and you're asked to do a job. And part of doing that job is to rate and to do well and to perform, and at certain points, when people are unable to do the job they're hired to do, what happens is people are let go. Their contract is not renewed.
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You have got to clean your own house first before you tell other people that they aren't doing it right.
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A cross between Leo DiCaprio's character in Catch Me If You Can and ... I don't know, I really like any of his movies.
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The art of dressing is the art we all practice.
