Otto Dix Quotes
All art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too; the dreams and visions of my time. Painting is the effort to produce order; order in yourself. There is much chaos in me, much chaos in our time.
Quotes to Explore
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In vast parts of the world, people don't eat meat.
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I joined a radical group at the age of 16 because I'm a passionate man; the good news is that I turned myself around since then. But my character is still quite free and passionate.
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I want to do roles that take women a step farther. I don't want to be slotted into anything. But if I get a brilliant role which requires me to be a mother, then I will do it. But I want people to see that a woman could be anything at whatever age, even if she is married or has two kids.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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I think the interesting thing about the word 'posh' is that it is so relative; it's quite a provocative title because people have strong feelings about that word.
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I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I cannot do the things that me would like to do.
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I would be a fool to put my feet down in a position where I can't accommodate metamorphoses.
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A final of a grand slam is always a matter of details. Maybe a point here, a point there will make the difference. Maybe someone who is a bit more gutsy than the other player, someone who is having a better day than the others.
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In the past, the West had tried to export one formula of democracy which should fit to the rest of the world, and they discovered that this doesn't work.
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I had a sense of what leadership meant and what it could do for you. So am I surprised that I am sitting up here on the 62nd floor of Rockefeller Plaza? No.
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What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
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I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.
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I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.
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I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.
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Everybody around the world wants to send their kids to our universities. But nobody wants to send their kids here to public school.
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I prefer to make movies which not only have a message for 'then' but a message for 'now.'
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Basically, my idea and explorations on fashion have not changed; however, I believe I'm going state-of-the-art on fashion.
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My mum brought me up to think that personal happiness is more important than your family.
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I've learned through experience that you can't ever predict what's going to happen with any show. When I signed on to 'Ugly Betty,' I just prayed that I wouldn't get fired after the pilot, and four years later, I was still doing it.
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Nobody wanted to dance, when i had a lot of time on my hands, now i have a lot of hands on my time, and everybody wants to be a friend of mine, wo wo.
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As quoted in ''HEY, YOU CAN JUST MAKE STUFF UP.' Differences between magic and art: None', by Peter Bebergal, The Believer, (2013).
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There is nothing so remote from vanity as true genius. It is almost as natural for those who are endowed with the highest powers of the human mind to produce the miracles of art, as for other men to breathe or move. Correggio, who is said to have produced some of his divinest works almost without having seen a picture, probably did not know that he had done anything extraordinary.
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The first movie I produced was a movie that Joel Schumacher wrote and directed called 'Amateur Night at the Dixie Bar and Grill.'
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All art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too; the dreams and visions of my time. Painting is the effort to produce order; order in yourself. There is much chaos in me, much chaos in our time.
