Katharine Susannah Prichard Quotes
Don't sacrifice your life to work and ideals. The most important things in life are human relations. I found that out too late.
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Surreal fiction is a sophisticated art form. Events happen divorced from conventional logic, as events in a dream may happen. But unlike dreams, everything in the story contributes to an overall coherent point, impression or emotion.
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The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.
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Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.
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Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end.
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In the discharge of the duties of this office, there is one rule of action more important than all others. It consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.
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Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
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I think it's very important for both women and men to see women working in a variety of capacities.
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The job at Brooklyn is interesting because Brooklyn reflects what happened to university art departments everywhere. It might be the worst department now, and yet at one point it was the best in the country.
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The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
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I think it's important if you are an actor, if you are portraying human life, you have to connect with what is human. It's not easy if you spend a lot of time in L.A. and get sucked into the hedonism of the industry.
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I think what turned me off of Christianity as a kid, and what I think turns other people off, is the thought that you have to sacrifice being cool to believe in God.
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I'm having this disbelief and dissatisfaction with an establishment that feels like it's moving backward, and I think there's a similar feeling with everyone of my age and in the world of music and artistic stuff. Art is an important way those feelings get expressed and help people process their feelings and opinions.
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Because of the tension and difficulty, I remember trying to do the silliest things when we weren't rolling cameras, anything to lift the spirits. But once on set, it was important to have full concentration.
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The first thing that's important is to really have people believe in you. If you have that, you can do anything.
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The genuine artist is never 'true to life.' He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not go storming through life like actors in a play. Art is never real life.
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When you read a novel, your own imagery is the most important. It's what makes reading such a wonderful thing.
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I consider one of the most important duties of any scientist the teaching of science to students and to the general public.
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'Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era,' the Whitney Museum's 40th-anniversary trip down counterculture memory lane, provides moments of buzzy fun, but it'll leave you only comfortably numb. For starters, it may be the whitest, straightest, most conservative show seen in a New York museum since psychedelia was new.
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You have to remember that Finnish people hate art.
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Every artist wants his or her work to connect with someone. I think that's why people make art.
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I really wanted to make the worst thing: the thing that even people who liked bad, terrible music wouldn't like - the stuff that people would ignore, always. Something really, really stupid. Something that is destined for failure.
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When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy.
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Here's a viewer's guide to BP media briefings. Whenever you hear someone with a British accent talking about this on behalf of British Petroleum they are not telling you the truth. That's the bottom-line.
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Don't sacrifice your life to work and ideals. The most important things in life are human relations. I found that out too late.
