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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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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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 am Warhol. I am the No. 1 most impactful artist of our generation. I am Shakespeare in the flesh.
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I think if I keep working in the way that I am, from the heart and from passion and with love, well, the fruits of that will keep coming.
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People love to drop in 'you betcha' as often as they can.
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Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.
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We had to go all through the night thinking that our baby was dead. When God showed him to us, he wasn't dead, he was sucking his thumb. God had him safe and sound. He is a miracle. He is so healthy, so perfect, and God has really, really blessed us.
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So must the artist do in working at the nude.
