Eric Drooker Quotes
The poster art over the years, art with social critique in it, has always been trying to make that point - that we are larger than they are.
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Politics is the art of the next best.
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Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.
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I work in the film business, where schmoozing is an art form, lunch hour lasts from 12:30 until 3, and every meeting takes an hour whether there's an hour's worth of business or not.
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A performance art piece is unprecedented. It is difficult to censor since it has a good possibility of never being done before.
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In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.
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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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Every good painter paints what he is.
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Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.
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Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.
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Translation is the art of failure.
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Paint the essential character of things.
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I think I went to Italy initially for the art, architecture, food and history, but I stayed there because of the people in Cortona.
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I love music videos, I really do. I think it's kind of sad that it's a dying art form.
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A work of art is good if it has grown out of necessity.
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...if it is art, it is not for all, and if it is for all, it is not art.
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If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.
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In every work of art the subject is primordial, whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualities is only a sign of the measure of the artist's obsession with his subject; the form is always in proportion to the obsession.
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The work of art is, after all, an act of faith in our ability to communicate symbolically.
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Organic growth is a cyclical process; it is just as true to say that the oak is a potential acorn as it is to say the acorn is a potential oak. But the process of writing a poem, of making any art object, is not cyclical but a motion in one direction toward a definite end.
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My purpose is far greater than my pain.
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A prophet such as we could use again today,strong,zealous,angry and gloomy in opposition to the leaders,the masses indeed the whole world.(Letter to his pastor Julius Schubring ,1846 regarding Medelssohn's choral work 'Elijah' published that year)
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Bullfights are a very cultural thing. I know many people think it's cruel, but so many things are cruel. Hunting, the electric chair, wars. These are all cruel things as well.
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What a midwesterner he was, a thoroughly unhip guy with his heart in the usual place, on the sleeve, in plain sight.
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The poster art over the years, art with social critique in it, has always been trying to make that point - that we are larger than they are.
