Antonio Canova Quotes
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I have been known as the minimal and conceptual artist for over five decades. I think I haven't changed much.
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You got me: I do Pilates. I love Pilates because we do very specific training in soccer for the same six or seven muscles, but we neglect so many other muscles. So when I do Pilates, it helps get all the rest of the muscles in shape and gets them working together.
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I was brought up by the English side of my family, who are very repressed and working class. Absolutely lovely, but very English.
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I love working in America, I love being part of the industry out here.
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I'm a big believer in living life as an extended working vacation.
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The responsibility of an artist is to be honest with themselves.
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I have to take it as a given that I have got a certain ability to do something. I can be an artist, which is take something and transform it into another thing. I can just see something, and I can see my painting.
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I got a job as a human rights and refugees officer, working on youth-based projects. But I realized all the kids I was working with were far more into 'The Daily Show' than the policy briefings.
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We are going to finish this picture just the way I want it... because you cannot compromise an artist's vision.
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I think with anything where you delve into the back story of an artist, it kind of explains their work more intimately.
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A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.
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I think some actors thrive on working at a much greater pace than I do.
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I was a big fan of Super Troopers, so working with the Broken Lizard guys was so much fun.
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When I was working at Teleflora, I got booked to do 'Talladega Nights,' so I went and did that. That was really my first big break ev-er. I made as much from my per diem during the three-month shoot as I did for the entire previous year.
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We do recognise that there are areas where the current financial services market, the banking market, just isn't working for chunks of the British economy.
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It is futile for an artist to try to create an environment because you have an environment around you all the time. Any living organism has an environment.
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What could be better than working with people you love?
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It might crush a lot of people, but I've never been in the room with an artist that I've written a song for.
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All of the guys I know from Jersey held onto this feeling of, 'We're always just working.'
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I'm not trying to become a pop artist, and I'm not trying to make sure I stay a country artist. I'm just trying to make sure I make the best music I can, according to my way.
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This has been my life for many years; one role feeds the other. It is a joy to be an artist, but it doesn't mean very much unless that work is somehow useful in some way and contributes to others.
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The pleasure principle long persists, however, as the method of working employed by the sexual instincts, which are so hard to 'educate', and, starting from those instincts, or in the ego itself, it often succeeds in overcoming the reality principle, to the detriment of the organism as a whole.
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If you want to create something that's worth doing you have to self-edit from the get-go. You really must be careful and selective with whom you work, you must constantly ask yourself the hard questions about your art, and you must set a nearly unattainable standard for yourself.
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So must the artist do in working at the nude.
