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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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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All Heaven is within thee, Man, And all of Hell within thy heart: What thou dost choose and will to have, That hast thou wheresoe'er thou art.
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From the subtle to the extreme, our culture and our values are under unrelenting attack from the media.
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I took the fear of marriage from my parents' relationship, because I didn't want to end up in a relationship like that, whereas my brothers and sisters learnt a lesson from it and made sure they didn't carry it on into their own marriages.
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I'm happy to sacrifice a big pay cheque for my happiness, if that's not too corny a thing to say. It's probably more naive than mature to say that, maybe, but that's how I feel.
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Once I get a project in my head, I start getting really obsessive about it.
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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.
