Nilo Cruz Quotes

I can only respond as an artist, because that’s what I am. I’m not going to become a politician all of a sudden. I am a politician in terms of the plays that I write, the way I embrace culture, the way I embrace characters that, in my particular case, have to do with the Latino world. And I embrace the Latino experience…

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• I often joke that I straddle psychosis and neurosis, and that being an artist keeps me in the middle, so I can work between the two.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Work
  • Me
  • Artist

• The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Culture
  • Attention
  • Mission

• Spiritual space is lost in gaining convenience. I saw the need to create a mixture of Japanese spiritual culture and modern western architecture.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • Culture
  • Lost
  • Space

• I read the Steve Jobs book, and that kind of changed everything. I've been, like, an Apple geek my whole life and have always seen him as a hero. But reading the book, and learning about how he built the company, and maintaining that corporate culture and all that, I think that influenced me a lot.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Life
  • Book
  • Culture

• A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Man
  • Culture
  • Hand

• There are works of literature whose influence is strong but indirect because it is mediated through the whole of the culture rather than immediately through imitation. Wordsworth is the case that comes to mind.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Mind
  • Strong
  • Culture

• London is the financial capital of Europe, a great platform to America and Asia. I love the fact that in British culture you can be whoever you want, and people don't even look at you. I don't feel that in Paris or Milan.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • People
  • Great
  • Love

• I think with anything where you delve into the back story of an artist, it kind of explains their work more intimately.

  

  Aaron Johnson
  • Work
  • Think
  • Artist

• A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Good
  • Artist
  • Wrong

• Our philosophy is you need to give nonprofit money for health, nutrition, education, culture, and sports.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Money
  • Culture
  • Education

• I don't believe in the so-called Latino explosion when it comes to movies. Jennifer Lopez doesn't have an accent. She grew up in New York speaking English, not Spanish. Her success is very important because she represents a different culture, but it doesn't help me.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Different

• I liked the idea of creating a new pop-culture, folkloric hero character that I created with 'Django' that I think's gonna last for a long time. And I think as the generations go on and everything, you know, my hope is it can be a rite of passage for black fathers and their sons. Like, when are they old enough to watch 'Django Unchained'?

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Time
  • Long
  • Character

• War implies a lack of comprehension of mutual national interests; it means the undermining and even the end of culture.

  

  Carlos Saavedra Lamas
  • War
  • Culture
  • End

• To be a truly conscientious artist, you have to look at what's not working and challenge it. You riff on things.

  

  Kara Walker
  • Challenge
  • Artist
  • Look

• You cannot transpose the U.S. system on Turkey, and the Turkish system on France etc. You have to understand the people and their culture. That's leadership.

  

  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
  • People
  • Culture
  • Leadership

• The work of art is always unfaithful to its creator... Art lays at a higher level; it says something more, and almost always, it says something different from what the artist wanted to say.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Work
  • Different
  • Art

• I am so spoiled. I cannot watch a show where it gets interrupted for ads. I have to TiVo it and skip through the ads, because the culture of advertising is so false and phony that I just... ugh, you know?

  

  Alan Ball
  • Culture

• If you offshore, if you telecommute, if you do anything to minimize your company's physical real estate, there are real consequences to its culture and cohesion.

  

  Dylan Taylor
  • Real
  • Culture

• A movie star is not an artist, he is an art object.

  

  Richard Schickel
  • Movie
  • Artist
  • Object

• Plots may be simple or complex, but suspense, and climactic progress from one incident to another, are essential. Every incident in a fictional work should have some bearing on the climax or denouement, and any denouement which is not the inevitable result of the preceding incidents is awkward and unliterary.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Work
  • May
  • Simple

• Any director or writer or artist has the right to do what they want to do - freedom of expression is something I celebrate.

  

  Birgitte Hjort Sorensen
  • Freedom

• The night I won my first Late Model race was the night my mom moved everything out of the house... There was a lot of situations like that.

  

  Kevin Harvick
  • House
  • Night
  • Mom

• At the end of the day, Iraq was a part of the fight against terrorism.

  

  Haider al-Abadi
  • Fight
  • Terrorism
  • Iraq

• I can only respond as an artist, because that’s what I am. I’m not going to become a politician all of a sudden. I am a politician in terms of the plays that I write, the way I embrace culture, the way I embrace characters that, in my particular case, have to do with the Latino world. And I embrace the Latino experience…

  

  Nilo Cruz
  • Culture
  • Artist
  • Respond