Carine Roitfeld Quotes
In Japan, you can learn how to make a bunch of flowers. This is an art. Tea ceremony, it's an art.
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Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.
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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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The myopic obsession of the Tea Party with destroying health care reform and wounding the president has led Republicans astray.
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I do hold very strongly that tea is better in England. There's something in the milk. They must have special cows.
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The world of fiction is a sovereign world that comes to life in the author's head and follows the rules of art, of literature. And that is the major difference that is reflected in the form of the work, in its language and its plot. An author invents every aspect of a fiction, every detail.
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That's what all art's about - a sense of moving away from boundaries that you can't in real life. Like a dancer is always trying to fly, really - to do something that's just not possible. But you try to do as much as you can within those physical boundaries.
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Art is always an exaggeration in some sense; in color, in form, even in theme, etc... but it has always been this way. It is the same with the nature of some works by Giotto or Massacio, or the color of life as expressed by Van Gogh.
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Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.
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The record business is dangerous to the health of bands and individuals, which is something I'm just now learning. But it's not dangerous in any of the ways people think; it's not that they try to make you compromise your art. That's not the problem.
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Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us that which we desire.
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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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My wife is a painter, musician, and fiber artist. We married in 1993, and as she worked, I found that my reading about art was helping me understand what she was doing, just as seeing her work gave me a language with which to speak of art.
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I think what made it difficult for people to get, and still makes it difficult for people to get, is the theatrical nature of the work and the fact that, my music doesn't exist without the performance-art element.
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Art is a mind-game that we do to make our lives easier. If it isn't for that, it becomes superfluous.
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Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it.
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Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.
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Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s.
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Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.
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Made a sketch later on the cabin verandah, but it was impossible to keep up with the changes. Oh the difficulties of mountain art for too little genius.
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I am fairly rich. Money's very handy, let's face it.
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Might I trouble you to open the window, for chloroform vapour does not help the palate.
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Every woman must live by some sense of victory over disappointments, and Olympias was not the sort of woman to find compensation in her own powers of self-control and endurance.
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The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.
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In Japan, you can learn how to make a bunch of flowers. This is an art. Tea ceremony, it's an art.
