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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I grew up thinking art was pictures until I got into music and found I was an artist and didn't paint.
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You aren't the kind of guy who takes the law into his own hands. You left the law in other hands and it screwed you over pretty badly.
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The biggest edge I live on is directing. That's the most scary, dangerous thing you can do in your life.
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Then she laughed, a bubbling, deliciously girlish laugh, and the Thing relaxed its hold on her heart, turned up its toes, and died.
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When asked if he gets advice from other musicians, quoted in **Heroes & Villains: Jerry Cantrell. Louder Sound (July 16, 2014).
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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.
