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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The wise artist makes peace with the fact that he will understand less than he had anticipated.
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But the main thing is that medication, too, is not all the help.
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What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know that one is food for worms.
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I held Nefertiti's body closer to mine, trying to press her spirit into me, to bring it back. But the reign of Nefertiti was finished. She was gone from Egypt.
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No prince, no king, no president has ever lived a better life than I have!
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So must the artist do in working at the nude.
