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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Frank Capra, Hollywood's Horatio Alger, lights with more cinematic know-how and zeal than any other director to convince movie audiences that American life is exactly like the 'Saturday Evening Post' covers of Norman Rockwell. 'It's A Wonderful Life,' the latest example of Capracorn, shows his art at a hysterical pitch.
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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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Art to me is not precious enough that I feel territorial about what the word gets applied to. Conversations about what counts as art and what doesn't doesn't captivate my attention very much.
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Translation is the art of failure.
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Paint the essential character of things.
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The most important thing about Jazz at Lincoln Center is the fact that it's the first time that perhaps the most important art form in American culture has a place to really exhibit itself and dedicated to its own particular conditions of performance.
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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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I mean, making art is about objectifying your experience of the world, transforming the flow of moments into something visual, or textual, or musical, whatever. Art creates a kind of commentary.
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A work of art is good if it has grown out of necessity.
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Performance has to be mainstream art. This is what I'm fighting for.
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My wife Victoria Harwood was art director on 'Far North,' and she had designed my student film, 'The Sheep Thief.'
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Art thou afeard To be the same in thine own act and valour As thou art in desire? Wouldst thou have that Which thou esteem'st the ornament of life, And live a coward in thine own esteem, Letting 'I dare not' wait upon 'I would,' Like the poor cat i' the adage?
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In law school they teach you that everything is a contract; well, in poetry everything is a narrative.
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I was very famous as a young man and I celebrated both the good and bad times with drinking.
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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.