Witold Gombrowicz Quotes
To me, art almost always speaks more forcefully when it appears in an imperfect, accidental, and fragmentary way, somehow just signaling its presence, allowing one to feel it through the ineptitude of the interpretation. I prefer the Chopin that reaches me in the street from an open window to the Chopin served in great style from the concert stage.Witold Gombrowicz
Quotes to Explore
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Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.
Karl Kraus -
Art is always criticized and always an outsider gets the blame.
Ville Valo HIM -
To be a good artist, you have to serve the work of art and allow it to be what it is supposed to be.
Larry Wall -
Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
Pablo Picasso -
I started playing chess when I was five years old. I learned the moves from my mother, then worked with my father - and later trainers. My style became very technical. I sacrificed a lot of things. I was always hunting for the king, for the mate. I'd forget about my other pieces.
Garry Kasparov -
I really have no preference between TV and film. I think that each individual project is its own thing and has a very different style.
Zach Gilford
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Punk's influence on music, movies, art, design and fashion is no longer in doubt. It is used as the measurement for what is cool.
Malcolm Mclaren -
I feel like now fashion is just part of how I think about everything. When I send out a mood board to our contributors every month about our monthly theme, there are photos from our fashion shows, but there are also film stills and album art.
Tavi Gevinson -
Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.
Mae West -
Every individual has his own style, his own way of presenting himself on and off the field.
Sachin Tendulkar -
I'd like to do some crazy art installations and design some weird synthesizers and work with other people and make some fun stuff for a bit. Maybe tap into virtual reality stuff or maybe write another record... We'll see.
Flume -
The church of St. Peter at Berlin, notwithstanding the total difference between them in the style of building, appears in some respects to have a great resemblance to St. Paul's in London.
Karl Philipp Moritz
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I've always been obsessed with style and glamor and if I want anyone to get anything out of my book, it's how we can all have them in our lives.
Rachel Zoe -
Figure skating is a mixture of art and sport.
Katarina Witt -
Before I was a cosplayer, I was a fan artist. I would draw my favorite characters and sell the pieces at art auctions. But once I discovered cosplay, it was like, 'I don't have to draw my favorite characters, I can become my favorite characters.'
Yaya Han -
An album is a whole universe, and the recording studio is a three-dimensional kind of art space that I can fill with sound. Just as the album art and videos are ways of adding more dimensions to the words and music. I like to be involved in all of it because it's all of a piece.
Bat for Lashes -
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.
Nathan Sawaya -
I try not to get trapped in any one musical or visual style at all.
Adam Lambert
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You really can't bring about anything new with art.
Martin Kippenberger -
Going to college made me realize you have to have real spaces of privacy, and you have to establish those early.
Cole Sprouse -
I'm aware that people enjoy creating categories that make it easier to digest pop culture or the media or entertainment or whatever. But I really have too much to do to fit into any easy category.
James Adomian -
I think the most pressing issue in our community is probably a generational divide.
Bernice King -
My film directorial career has been nothing but repetition of one failure after another!
Takeshi Kitano -
To me, art almost always speaks more forcefully when it appears in an imperfect, accidental, and fragmentary way, somehow just signaling its presence, allowing one to feel it through the ineptitude of the interpretation. I prefer the Chopin that reaches me in the street from an open window to the Chopin served in great style from the concert stage.
Witold Gombrowicz