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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I film normal-life subjects in natural settings that some people would consider uncinematic. But what I want to show is nature itself, as the truth of life.
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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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I wanted to start a revolution, using art to build the sort of society I myself envisioned.
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Liberty is never out of bounds or off limits; it spreads wherever it can capture the imagination of men.
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He who knows much about others may be learned, but he who understands himself is more intelligent. He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.
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I'm a human being. I'm not a piece of property. I'm not a consignment of goods.
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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.
