Eliel Saarinen Quotes
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I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.
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Desire is the very essence of man.
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I remember I heard it in an interview with Michael Jackson one day, saying the art is gone, everybody makes records just to make a record. See, I always want the artist that try to build a whole body of music on one album, so you can enjoy it. So you could say, 'I went with him here, I went with him here.'
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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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As I discovered music, especially Rock 'n Roll, new territory was opened to me. I was lured by the unbridled rhythm of this art form. It was like gasoline on the fire of my youthful spirit.
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When I was eight years old, I wrote a paragraph-long short story about a goat on my mother's hundred-pound, black-and-white-screen laptop. The story came about largely because I liked the way the word 'goat' looked on the page, but I decided then and there that I wanted to be a writer. That desire never changed.
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We are on red alert when it comes to how we are perceiving ourselves as a species. There's no desire to be an adult.
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If you really think that ambition, power, lust, desire are not as applicable in the media as in politics or on Wall Street or anywhere else, you're deluding yourself.
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Music is art to me, and you don't censor art. You don't go into a museum and censor things.
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I was a screenwriting and studio art major in college, so even though I don't have any training as a floral designer, I have a very particular visual aesthetic.
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The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode.
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Tell the lie over and over and over. It's an art that Trump understands well. There's no better evidence than his absolutely false claim that he opposed the Iraq War in 2002.
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The ultimate, if distant, aim of the Bauhaus is the unified work of art - the great structure - in which there is no distinction between monumental and decorative art.
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The early expression of my youth was filled with all the aspects of art.
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What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.
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If I was going to make a broad generalisation, I'd say that I prefer the company of women. People know now that I live with Mike Figgis, but I prefer not to talk about it. On one level, privacy is important, but on another level I have no desire to deny certain things.
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I love making healthy lean foods delicious - that's an art!
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Movies will end up being this esoteric art form, where only singular people will put films out in a small group of theaters.
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I didn't want to be an actress. I wasn't trying to be in film or an art gallery for me.
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Humankind's desire for peace can be realized only by the creation of a world government.
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The kid that showed up (Maddox), that's incredible. I mean, she wasn't even on our radar. It's kind of interesting with us. Probably the best thing that happened to Temple was that their point guard went down, because then our brains went to sleep and we no longer focused on the guards. It was confusion, at the very least.
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I'm free. I just do what I want, say what I want, say how I feel, and I don't try to hurt nobody. I just try to make sure that I don't compromise my art in any kind of way, and I think people respect that.
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Art was born as a desire, not as a demand.
