Art Wolfe Quotes
When you spend your life in a creative mode all the time mindless leaf blowing can be a welcome break.
Quotes to Explore
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I like to find the beauty in the ugly. When I'm in a thrift store, I gravitate toward pieces I know I'll wear a ton, and insane pieces that I'm sure most people would consider gross. But I find them inspiring. Our van is currently stocked with some of my random findings from this tour. Maybe I'll call my aesthetic 'van fashion.'
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If someone says, 'I love that lipstick,' I will always try to answer, honestly, if I know what color it is. It's a connective tissue.
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I've been accused of wanting to allow terrorists to have weapons to attack America.
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Every time you work is a challenge. There's a constant worry about it, and it's a side of acting I don't like.
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I am not interested in producing fiction for Indian television at all, the reason being that I don't understand the medium. I can be a judge or a host; I can do that as an individual. But to produce TV content, you have to know the game.
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Sports should not become routine. It should be about passion.
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When I'm not painting, I'm Oujia-boarding with my photos. I'll sort through my pictures, put them in different folders, and come back months later to one in particular and try to figure out why I took it.
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A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.
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They got into fact checking at the 'Paris Review,' and it was mortifying. There was a wrangle about Hemingway's lost stories that nearly killed me. It turns out he didn't lose those stories. They weren't stolen from the platform.
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I'm a 24-hour tweet machine, I'm a 24-hour blogger. When there's no pressure on me, I can talk and write and lecture with the best of them. But put a deadline on me and I start getting writer's block.
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I don't think that the Grammys are in any way a just way of grading music.
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My dad's a Republican. My dad's my mentor. When I was 18 or whatever it was and I decided to register to vote. My dad's Republican, so that's what I decided to register as.
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I guess I'm a bit of a romantic.
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Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.
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The odds of having films made which star women... Everyone still references one movie: 'Bridesmaids!'
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The biggest ambition in my career is still to win the European Cup. I want to have a picture of that to look at later; I want to have that medal. You can have a contract that is better than your friends, but no player looks back and says: 'I won more money.'
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I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.
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I write songs from the heart, and I don't hold back.
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The true direction of the development of thinking is not from the individual to the social, but from the social to the individual.
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Working on 'Girls' opened up a lot of opportunity for me. It's like a dream job. It's a dream.
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Stones grow, plants grow, and live, animals grow live and feel.
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Profit sharing in the form of stock distributions to workers would help to democratize the ownership of America's vast corporate wealth which is today appallingly undemocratic and unhealthy.
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When something is too beautiful or too terrible or even too funny for words, then it is time for poetry.
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When you spend your life in a creative mode all the time mindless leaf blowing can be a welcome break.
