Ernie Barnes Quotes
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I like to grow and experiment, and as an artist, it's about kicking the bar up a little.
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Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
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On one side, citizens have great respect for the United States; they have a great feeling of friendship. That is solid. But in the opposition and in the political arena I often find criticism of the closeness of relations with the United States. That is a reality.
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To get important work done, most leaders organize people into teams. They believe that when people collaborate toward a common goal, great things can happen. Yet in reality, the whole is often much less than the sum of the parts.
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That's the great thing about G.I. Joe: it's essentially superheroes, but it's military based - and it's based in reality.
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I think with anything where you delve into the back story of an artist, it kind of explains their work more intimately.
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Mix CDs are interesting. I'm known more for my artist albums and less for my mix CDs.
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I think the pursuit of happiness is the pursuit of reality because illusion never leaves us ultimately happy.
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A successful artist of any kind has to work so hard that she is justified in refusing to lay down her sceptre until she is placed on the bier.
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I thought for a very long time that I had to conform or maybe change the way I look, or maybe the hijab was dimming my beauty. I took a moment, and then I realized, you know what, there's a lot of girls who do wear this, and this is their reality. It just made me even more prouder to wear it.
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If reality shows are so popular, that means their viewers are screaming for more realness.
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We continually say things to support an opinion, which we have given, that in reality we don't above half mean.
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Perhaps the mission of an artist is to interpret beauty to people - the beauty within themselves.
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Over the past 20 years, I have noticed that the most flexible, dynamic, inquisitive minds among my students have been industrial design majors. Industrial designers are bracingly free of ideology and cant. The industrial designer is trained to be a clear-eyed observer of the commercial world - which, like it or not, is modern reality.
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The attempt to live by the reality of our own nature, which means our limits as well as our potentials, is a profoundly moral regimen.
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In wartime Shanghai I saw so many horrors … Civilised life is based on a huge number of illusions in which we all collaborate willingly. The trouble is, we forget after a while that they are illusions and we are deeply shocked when reality is torn down around us.
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The Chinese authorities think of artists as prostitutes. And in reality it’s true: in the Communist system artists just represent what the power structure seeks them to represent. It is prostitution.'
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I pay these niggers with a reality check
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Appearance should never attain reality,And if nature conquers, then must art retire.
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Sexism goes so deep that at first it's hard to see; you think it's just reality.
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For many years my inherited arthritis had given me problems.
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An artist paints his own reality.
