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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In God there is an infinitude of things which I cannot comprehend, nor possibly even reach in any way by thought; for it is the nature of the infinite that my nature, which is finite and limited, should not comprehend it.
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Any idiot can get an airplane off the ground, but an aviator earns his keep by bringing it back anytime, anywhere, under any circumstances that man and God can dream up.
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I've only cried at one book, but I'm too embarrassed to tell you which. It wasn't terribly intellectual. I will admit, though, to crying when I've read books aloud to my elementary class. We read a biography of Gandhi once, and it was very difficult to read the part where Gandhi was killed, because they were waiting for a happy ending.
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We can't plan life. All we can do is be available for it.
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So must the artist do in working at the nude.
