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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You know, the truth can be really powerful stuff. You're not expecting it.
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On the whole, the modern palette is the same as the one used by the artists of Pompeii... I mean it has not been enriched. The ancients used earths, ochres, and ivory-black - you can do anything with that palette.
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If you are for freedom and equal rights, which we hear a lot of talk about these days, then you have to include the LGBTQ community in that. And if you're not willing to put your time where your mouth is, then I don't know quite what you mean by commitment in your life.
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Don't 'just do it.' First, plan it, then do it.
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What is difficult is to keep the sweet voice with an aggressive message.
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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.
