Ernie Barnes Quotes

An artist paints his own reality.

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• I like to grow and experiment, and as an artist, it's about kicking the bar up a little.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Up
  • Like
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• Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Truth
  • Reality
  • Fiction

• 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.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Great
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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.

  

  Adam Grant
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• That's the great thing about G.I. Joe: it's essentially superheroes, but it's military based - and it's based in reality.

  

  D. J. Cotrona
  • Great
  • Reality
  • Military

• I think with anything where you delve into the back story of an artist, it kind of explains their work more intimately.

  

  Aaron Johnson
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  • Think
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• Mix CDs are interesting. I'm known more for my artist albums and less for my mix CDs.

  

  Kaskade
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  • Artist
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• I think the pursuit of happiness is the pursuit of reality because illusion never leaves us ultimately happy.

  

  Parker Palmer
  • Happy
  • Reality
  • Happiness

• 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.

  

  Edith Evans
  • Work
  • She
  • Artist

• 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.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Time
  • Long
  • Reality

• If reality shows are so popular, that means their viewers are screaming for more realness.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Reality
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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.

  

  Frances Burney
  • Reality
  • Support
  • Opinion

• Perhaps the mission of an artist is to interpret beauty to people - the beauty within themselves.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • People
  • Artist
  • Beauty

• 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.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • World
  • Free
  • Reality

• 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.

  

  Parker Palmer
  • Live
  • Nature
  • Reality

• 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.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Life
  • Reality

• 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.'

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Power
  • True
  • Reality

• Reality is apparent when one ceases to compare. - There is 'what is' only when there is no comparison at all, and to live with what is, is to be peaceful.

  

  Bruce Lee
  • Live
  • Reality

• That which we call substance and reality is shadow and illusion, and that which we call shadow and illusion is substance and reality.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Reality
  • Shadow

• So we all got basically what we wanted, and as far as the women are concerned, he figured that 30 good women could handle a crew of 300 anyway. So that's how we ended up with our crew.

  

  Majel Barrett
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  • Good
  • Women

• The comedians I liked were Bill Cosby and Steven Wright, like just always as a comedic actor. I always liked Gary Larson, who's really funny for a cartoonist, obviously.

  

  Demetri Martin
  • Funny

• The music certainly plays a major role. You can be free enough to comfort each other, to touch each other, to embrace each other, to engage each other, to not be afraid of each other. The music certainly has that very strong element. Go back to folk songs, gospel, jazz, and spirituals. See, all of that came out of tremendous pain and hurt, rejection, loss, alienation, and abandonment. What I'm doing is I'm expressing my pain and hope at the same time.

  

  Cecil Williams
  • Music
  • Strong
  • Role

• I absorb the science section of 'The New York Times.' You know, I have a degree: I'm an A.A.D. Almost a Doctor.

  

  Evelyn Lauder
  • Science
  • Doctor
  • New York Times

• An artist paints his own reality.

  

  Ernie Barnes
  • Reality
  • Artist
  • Paints