Tré Cool (Frank Edwin Wright III) Quotes
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Frank Capra, Hollywood's Horatio Alger, lights with more cinematic know-how and zeal than any other director to convince movie audiences that American life is exactly like the 'Saturday Evening Post' covers of Norman Rockwell. 'It's A Wonderful Life,' the latest example of Capracorn, shows his art at a hysterical pitch.
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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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Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It's rage, it's creativity, it's pain, it's hurt, but it's the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music.
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Life is not an exact science, it is an art.
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I strongly believe that the art of the novel works best when the writer identifies with whoever he or she is writing about. Novels in the end are based on the human capacity, compassion, and I can show more compassion to my characters if I write in a first person singular.
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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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Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.
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When I sit down to begin penciling a page, most of the hard work for me is done. I can concentrate solely on my art from that point on, which is the fun part!
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My desire to be a physician had a lot to do with that sense of medicine as a ministry of healing, not just a science. And not even just a science and an art, but also a calling, also a ministry.
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Art is Art. Everything else is everything else.
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The art market was very different before the mid-1980s: then, art was all about passion, whereas now it's become a commodity.
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It's true that there are people who live the idea of being an artist, as opposed to the idea of making art.
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I went to Goldsmith College of Art in London in the '80s and there I made sculptures, but the objects had nothing to do with how I was thinking. I was making beautifully sanded wooden boxes!
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The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.
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All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography.
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I mean, making art is about objectifying your experience of the world, transforming the flow of moments into something visual, or textual, or musical, whatever. Art creates a kind of commentary.
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From being at art college, I've always hated people that have the gall to think that they're being incredibly different when they're doing something in a very acceptable way, something safe that they've seen someone else doing.
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The world of painting has nothing to do with the art world.
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Swear me, Kate, like a lady as thou art, A good mouth-filling oath.
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The most serious and universal problem is the growing chasm between the richest and poorest people on earth. Citizens of the ten wealthiest countries are now seventy-five times richer than those who live in the ten poorest ones, and the separation is increasing every year, not only between nations but also within them.
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No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.
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For most women, including women who want to have children, contraception is not an option; it is a basic health care necessity.
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'Never again' is the rallying cry for all who believe that mankind must speak out against genocide.
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Punk rock has become another viable art form. It always was. But now it's like everyone's doing it.
