Calvin Seerveld Quotes
Art is mainly about wrestling with material reality, not striving after a spiritual ideal.
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When people first started watching UFC, it seemed like a no-holds barred event... early on it looked like all the fighters were crazy. Actually, there are a lot of techniques, and the reality shows have let people see the fighters behind the scenes.
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The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in us and that which impinges upon us from history is the reality of man's being, unfolding itself in thought.
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Creativity is generating ideas that are novel and useful. I define originals as people who go beyond dreaming up the ideas and take initiative to make their visions a reality.
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It makes me happy to think that this world of art-as-investment is a minuscule fraction of the art world overall. Most people who create, trade and own art do it for a much simpler reason. They just like it.
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Sometimes, fear is good. Sometimes it's a good thing to have a little bit of a reality check.
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A lot of politics in art is just institutional critique, which, in my opinion, is not all that political.
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In life and art, there are distinctions to be made between what an act of cruelty consists of.
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Music is art to me, and you don't censor art. You don't go into a museum and censor things.
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Most people aren't familiar enough with what actually goes on in professional wrestling to know just how badly women are treated in WWE narratives.
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Dancers are a work of art - they are the canvas on which their work is painted.
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If reality shows are so popular, that means their viewers are screaming for more realness.
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Quite often, little germs of ideas have come from something that I've observed or someone's told me. The process of it becoming fiction is expanding and extending it: stretching the rubber band of reality.
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My father's violence is the central fact of my art and my life.
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The reality of marriage as the union of a mother and a father is grounded in our very biology.
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I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality.
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My social and political interests are part of my career. I cannot separate them. My songs reflect the human condition. The role of art isn't just to show life as it is, but to show life as it should be.
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I don't think I could do a reality show, no.
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Wrestling was like stand-up comedy for me.
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Some of my friends say that I only talk about myself. But it is funny: my house is covered in art but with nothing of my own, and when I'm working, I'm only thinking about what the client wants. So I don't see it that way, but maybe it's true. I mean, they are my friends.
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My art practice is very detail-, labor- intensive and I think that that's a way of slowing myself down so that I can hear myself think. That quieter voice has sometimes the more interesting idea, if I can get to it.
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I'll never know what happens behind closed doors or why I don't get hired for things.
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Lots of hurtful secrets are better off kept. The problem is that people find it so hard to keep them.
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And I never ask what I'm doing the next day. I don't want to know what I'm doing tomorrow. It's much too overwhelming. So I just go day by day, without knowing.
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Art is mainly about wrestling with material reality, not striving after a spiritual ideal.
