Eric Maisel Quotes
An alive piece of art may be more alive than much of its audience, and with this odd truth artists must make peace.
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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 like elegance. I like art nouveau; a stretched line or curve. These things are very much in the foreground of my work.
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Acting and making art is just something I love to do, and I love to tell stories that feel important, honest and necessary.
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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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They're not poodles, they're art.
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A lot of people tend to glorify the role of satire and comedians. They put them up as role models, as fighters for the truth and against tyranny, and I think that's overrated.
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Truly, love is delightful and pleasant food, supplying, as it does, rest to the weary, strength to the weak, and joy to the sorrowful. It in fact renders the yoke of truth easy and its burden light.
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Trying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad recipe for getting something good.
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Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
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Attributing to anything or anyone more good than God has attributed to them is not a positive move, nor does it mean that you have done them any good. A single grain of truth is preferable to a bumper harvest of false imaginings.
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Interestingly, it is often the younger members of the audience who ask the most sophisticated questions.
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Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.
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Son, always tell the truth. Then you'll never have to remember what you said the last time.
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Facts are many, but the truth is one.
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The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.
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Even when I was a little girl, I remember going to the Museum of Modern Art. I think my parents took me there once or twice. And what I really remember is the design collection.
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For me it's very important to turn Kiev into one of the main centers of contemporary art in the world. There is New York. There's London. And there will be Kiev. Everyone will come and say, 'Wow!'
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If the language of art is not accessible to ordinary language and ordinary experience, how can it be accessible to ordinary people?
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Turning to God, Truth, Reality, simply means to let go, even fearfully at first, of our self-centered ideas.
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The men loved jokes, though they had heard each one before. Jack's manner was persuasive; few of them had seen the old stories so well delivered. Jack himeself laughed a little, but he was able to see the effect his performance had on his audience. The noise of their laughter roared like the sea in his ears. He wanted it louder and louder; he wanted them to drown out the war with their laughter. If the could should loud enough, they might bring the world back to its senses; they might laugh loud enough to raise the dead.
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When you look at elephant herds that are nonstressed, the males are never around. They mate, they go; they're loners.
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In the past, my family made a lot of sacrifices. We never got to spend much time together because I was always training. I think now I need to spend as much time as I can with them. This is the life I should have.
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Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.
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An alive piece of art may be more alive than much of its audience, and with this odd truth artists must make peace.
