Georgiana Burne-Jones Quotes
This seclusion of the artist with his work, sometimes misconceived as a selfish thing, is in truth as needful a tool as any, if a vision is to be made clear to others. And all the men I have known do creative work obtained it; either mechanically, by the walls of a workroom, or by that withdrawal into themselves which is part of their power.
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Where I come from, if you weren't a drag queen or a radical thinker or a performance artist of some kind, you were the weirdo.
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I think the CG is an instrument to create reality. I don't think it's an instrument to create a heightened reality.
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As a young woman, I had been seeking experience, knowledge, truth, the stuff writers need in their work, but when the artist actually kicked in, I came to understand that in this romantic relationship I was not free to be myself, or to find myself, in order to begin the true work I needed to do.
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I used to say to my bubbe, 'Bubbe, is this story true?' And she'd say, 'Of course it's true! But it may not have happened.' What my bubbe was saying is profound: All stories are true. The truth is the journey you take through it - did it make you laugh, cry, seek and want justice? Then it's true.
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At first, I did have that thought, like, 'Oh crap, what are we going to do after?' Then I realized 'Girl in a Country Song' was an honest, truthful song, and we were telling our truth, and that's all we have to do - write songs that are true and tell our stories.
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You don't create jobs by passing bills, you create jobs by cutting taxes.
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I don't think we're living in great times for movies, to tell you the truth.
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If I have any advice to give to the Syrian president it is to cooperate for the sake of the investigation or for the sake of uncovering the truth.
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What happens in improv is you create your own storyline.
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Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth - well, it's like brown - it's not in the spectrum. Truth is so generic.
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All I'm ever looking for in my work in general is honesty and truth and people being real to themselves.
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Scarce any problem will appear more hard and difficult, than that of determining the distance of the Sun from the Earth very near the truth: but even this... will without much labour be effected.
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God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.
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Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.
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Perhaps the mission of an artist is to interpret beauty to people - the beauty within themselves.
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I'm not a selfish actor. I believe that it's a team effort. You're not in a scene by yourself.
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All the time I'm changing as an artist and as a person.
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The soul active sees absolute truth; and utters truth, or creates.
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To expect truth to come from thinking signifies that we mistake the need to think with the urge to know.
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Although I write to entertain, and try to keep my work free of didacticism, I do have a rather passionate belief in our need to be connected to - and to learn from - history.
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There's no one quite like William - I bet he's really kind. You can just tell by looking at him.
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After all, everybody has secrets and there are some things that nobody knows about you but only you, right?
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The real is always way ahead of what we can imagine.
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This seclusion of the artist with his work, sometimes misconceived as a selfish thing, is in truth as needful a tool as any, if a vision is to be made clear to others. And all the men I have known do creative work obtained it; either mechanically, by the walls of a workroom, or by that withdrawal into themselves which is part of their power.
