Emi Fontana Quotes
The definition of public art to me means everything and means nothing because for me, all art is public. Art has to be public by definition and in a way It has to be accessible to any audience not just a work in a museum or an art gallery.
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I know from my own experience that great films and great actors can have a really big influence on you. There is a place for art in the world, and if you're lucky enough to be good at something and to keep being given work, it's not such a bad thing.
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Books are my art. The movie is someone else's art. But it's great marketing for books.
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I was a pretty pretentious kid. I was always making art.
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I wanted to be an animator originally. I went to art school; I went to art college and everything. But that screen was just calling me.
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In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education.
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Punk's influence on music, movies, art, design and fashion is no longer in doubt. It is used as the measurement for what is cool.
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I was always trying - I never wanted to let my fans down; I always wanted them to see me in my art form.
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After studying art, I was a painter for a while and was asked to audition for a movie randomly. I hadn't thought of acting before that.
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Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
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I want to do just, like, regular art. Whatever is made today on canvas goes up against all of art history. It's the most radical thing.
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I really love fan art, which I get sent a lot of. I really, really get a lot of. I get a kick out of it.
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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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It's kind of an art, going out and performing. I'd like fans to remember me as a guy who would go out and entertain them, give them quality matches, and not just the same old garbage every week.
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We count on the FEC to be the public's watchdog.
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All art becomes history as soon as it is made, so it is inevitably part of a tradition. It doesn't matter a toss if it is in paint or in film; it is all art.
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Art is kind of the lens through which I think about God.
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I am guilty of using dollar signs as proof of a work of art's longevity.
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We recognize the distinctness of Asian art when we turn to its traditional forms, recognize it as Japanese, Chinese and Indian, even Balinese or Thai.
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Sleep, to the homeless thou art home; the friendless find in thee a friend.
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At the end of the day, that's our sole purpose and our sole reason for existing, is to love somebody else.
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We must never forget that Black History is American History. The achievements of African Americans have contributed to our nation's greatness.
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In the immediate postwar era, financial crises in advanced countries were rare events, and before 1970 did not happen at all. Since then they have occurred more often, and 2008 was the most damaging of them all to date. If we have moved back to a regime of regular financial crises - like the one we had from the 1870s to the 1930s - then our economic future will be very different from our recent past.
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The definition of public art to me means everything and means nothing because for me, all art is public. Art has to be public by definition and in a way It has to be accessible to any audience not just a work in a museum or an art gallery.
