Nikky Finney (Lynn Carol Finney) Quotes
I remember saying to myself those things are very, very important to hear, but there must be another way to say them so that they will truly be heard. I mean, that's what art is. Art is about being provocative. Art is also about beauty. And if you leave the latter out, the former doesn't matter.
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I enjoy going out by myself... always have, always will. I don't have security guards, and, for the most part, I enjoy meeting new people. I see myself as a regular guy who likes playing video games with his nieces and nephews and poker with his family. I don't have an art collection or take exotic vacations. I enjoy being at home.
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I must've been a bird in some previous lifetime. I feel like I'm called to flying - the convenience and the beauty of it. That feeling of soaring would be empowering.
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When I was growing up as a little girl and as a teenager, I loved designing and making dogs' clothes and wanting to be a fashion designer. I took art and ceramics. I loved dance.
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Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.
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Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.
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My career? I never think of it as a 'career.' Art and music and all those things that I'm creating are just part of me.
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Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
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If I'm creating a free-form piece of art, I can make it look like anything I want, and nobody will say it's wrong.
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Filmmaking is a very privileged art form. It costs a lot of money to make these things.
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I am truly honoured to become ambassadress for Yves Saint Laurent. The brand's modern vision of beauty is very inspiring, and I am particularly proud to represent such an audacious archetype of woman.
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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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I think that with beauty, people jump to the end instead of starting from the beginning with a good lotion or prep.
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Art is kind of the lens through which I think about God.
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The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.
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Beauty, of course, is the most important requirement and the paramount asset of the applicant.
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The party is a true art form in Sydney and people practise it a great deal. You can really get quite lost in it.
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When one looks into the window of a store which sells devotional art objects, one can't help wishing the iconoclasts had won.
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I have now attained the true art of letter-writing, which we are always told, is to express on paper exactly what one would say to the same person by word of mouth.
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I wanted to work in the arts. My dream come true would be to be an architectural historian and work with the royal palaces and all the fabulous art collections. But I'm not committed enough.
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Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.
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A democracy is a state in which the poor, gaining the upper hand, kill some and banish others, and then divide the offices among the remaining citizens equally, usually by lot.
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I remember saying to myself those things are very, very important to hear, but there must be another way to say them so that they will truly be heard. I mean, that's what art is. Art is about being provocative. Art is also about beauty. And if you leave the latter out, the former doesn't matter.
