Christopher Bollen Quotes

If you've been in the art world for more than eight years, you realize another generation is making the exact same work as the previous generation - but treating it like it's never been done before. It becomes very cyclical very quickly.

Christopher Bollen

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• The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Books
  • Shame

• I had parents in the business and they made sure that the art was the biggest concern.

  

  Nat Wolff
  • Art
  • Business
  • Parents

• I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.

  

  Yuna
  • World
  • Music
  • God

• Islam is a violent, I was going to say religion, but it's not a religion. It's a political system. It's a violent political system bent on the overthrow of the governments of the world and world domination. That is the ultimate aim.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • World
  • Political
  • Religion

• The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.

  

  F. H. Bradley
  • World
  • Best
  • Evil

• I find that talking about myself is often the most boring thing in the world. Sixty per cent of interviews I find mechanical.

  

  Carla Bruni
  • World
  • Myself
  • Find

• Some of the biggest movie stars in the world are essentially characters.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • World
  • Movie
  • Stars

• Young women and men who joined the far-left groups did so for the best of reasons. They wanted to change the world. Many fought against the stifling atmosphere in many groups.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • World
  • Men
  • Women

• To grow up five miles outside of the greatest city in the world is a bizarre experience.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Up
  • World
  • Experience

• God created the world; the laws of nature were created by God. True science tries to find out what God put in the world. The trouble is where scientists speculate about theology and they don't know what they're talking about because they weren't there. They can't speculate about the origins of life because they weren't there.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Life
  • World
  • God

• The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Art
  • Business
  • Man

• The World Championship gold was a surprise and took a lot of pressure off in terms of qualifying for Rio, but I still need more points, and winning in Manchester would be massive for me.

  

  Bianca Walkden
  • World
  • Winning
  • Gold

• If I ever go back to college, I'd study art education.

  

  Frankie Cosmos
  • Art
  • Education
  • College

• There is an opportunity to consolidate the North American region as a more competitive region, a more productive region that will be more competitive than other blocs that have integrated in the rest of the world.

  

  Enrique Pena Nieto
  • World
  • American
  • Opportunity

• I think it's an important thing, if you grew up in a neighbourhood that's different from the rest of the world, to remember what was different about your place and keep that in your heart, because that's what made you.

  

  Lukas Forchhammer Lukas Graham
  • Up
  • World
  • Different

• I began to see cinema as the perfect combination of so many wonderful art forms - painting, photography, music, dance, theater.

  

  James Gray
  • Music
  • Art
  • Perfect

• I think it's important to look at the world as a bigger place than just the bubble that we live in. It's so easy to get caught up in things of a trivial nature.

  

  Pete Wentz Fall Out Boy
  • Up
  • World
  • Important

• Art imitates life and, sometimes, life imitates art. It's a weird combination of elements.

  

  Bruce Willis
  • Life
  • Art
  • Weird

• I get up at 4:30 in the morning, seven days a week, no matter where I am in the world.

  

  Bob Iger
  • Up
  • World
  • Morning

• With each award we get, we become a little bit more overrated. That's what it feels like.

  

  Kevin Parker Tame Impala

• There are women vain of advantages not connected with their persons, such as birth, rank, and fortune; it is difficult to feel less the dignity of the sex. The origin of all women may be called celestial, for their power is the offspring of the gifts of Nature; by yielding to pride and ambition they soon destroy the magic of their charms.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Women
  • May
  • Power

• But I firmly believe that you can't be emotionally free until you are emotionally committed.

  

  Frank Langella
  • Believe
  • Free

• New feet within my garden go, New fingers stir the sod; A troubadour upon the elm Betrays the solitude.New children play upon the green, New weary sleep below; And still the pensive spring returns, And still the punctual snow!

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Children
  • Sleep
  • Green

• If you've been in the art world for more than eight years, you realize another generation is making the exact same work as the previous generation - but treating it like it's never been done before. It becomes very cyclical very quickly.

  

  Christopher Bollen
  • World
  • Art
  • Realizing