Chairil Anwar Quotes
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I feel like Adele is a diva. Not in the bad way. She is one of the greatest voices of this industry and of her own art. What she offers is so unique that she's risen to such a status that very few artists can enjoy.
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Art is always criticized and always an outsider gets the blame.
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Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
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In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education.
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Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
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Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.
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The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
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All art is propaganda, and ever must be, despite the wailing of the purists. I stand in utter shamelessness and say that whatever art I have for writing has been used always for propaganda for gaining the right of black folk to love and enjoy. I do not care a damn for any art that is not used for propaganda.
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Photographing a cake can be art.
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The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists.
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Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity.
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What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.
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The art of prose governed by syncopated thinking; for thoughts curdle in the heart if not expressed. An idea is like a rare bird which cannot be seen. What one sees is the trembling of the branch it has just left.
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I think art doesn't have to be created in a period of misery, but it certainly helps.
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Hopefully if you create something fine, people will relate to it, so you're communicating with people, and you're not in a void. On the other hand, because you're always creating and transforming, art always separates you - always.
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Art is the only thing that can save me from my opinions about the world. I tend to get very worked up about what I see going on, and I feel, you know, impotent to make the kind of changes and the kind of difference that I would like to make.
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I got into music, I was in a band, I was at art school. I was quite trendy, although I'd hate to meet myself. The over-preening, the pretentiousness, the arrogance of youth! I think, 'Oh, that guy was so full of himself.'
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My wife was the first art collector in the family, and I didn't become interested until around 1973. The first important artwork we bought was a Van Gogh drawing of two peasant houses in Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer.
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Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.
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I went to the London Academy Of Music and Dramatic Art and returned to New York where I started my career.
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When you look at sort of pop stardom now, some of these singers, it seems like the idea of them was created in a marketing meeting, and then they just found someone to sort of fulfill that role.
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Not all human souls but only the pious ones are divine.
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In art, vitality is the chaotic initial state; beauty is the cosmic final state.
