Pablo Picasso Quotes
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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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I want to find a nice decent job as a helicopter pilot.
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I design all my sets. With my tour and my album artwork, I co-design that with people who are better at drawing than me. But I've got a good imagination. I went to art school so I understand how to communicate my ideas.
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Art is always an exaggeration in some sense; in color, in form, even in theme, etc... but it has always been this way. It is the same with the nature of some works by Giotto or Massacio, or the color of life as expressed by Van Gogh.
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To be a good artist, you have to serve the work of art and allow it to be what it is supposed to be.
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I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings.
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Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us that which we desire.
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As authors, most - most authors, our art is portraying the human condition. Trying to show you what it's like to be somebody else, trying to make you feel for somebody else. That means you have to have a high degree of empathy.
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The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
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But I think it's also hard to get into soccer here. I think purely on a time level on television as well because of the ad breaks. It's something to do with that as well. You can't show a complete soccer match here. Which I kind of find a bit of an odd thing.
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I can only say that I myself wrote always as I wished, without a tremendous desire to find the latest thing possible.
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I have the right to interpretation as a dramatist. I research. It's my responsibility to find the research. It's my responsibility to digest it and do the best that I can with it. But at a certain point that responsibility will become an interpretation.
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I feel the art world in New York has a stronger following than Britain. If you go to a New York art district on a Saturday morning, it will be so busy with families and openings - art is much more ingrained in the culture.
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Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.
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Writers of historical fiction are not under the same obligation as historians to find evidence for the statements they make. For us it is sufficient if what we say can't be disproved or shown to be false.
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I've always loved pinup art, and I've always enjoyed drawing women. I think it was a conscious decision that has resulted in me getting almost exclusive work on comics where the main character is female.
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A lot of politics in art is just institutional critique, which, in my opinion, is not all that political.
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Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
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France has lived a long time - eight or nine centuries - and yet art in France, too, was derivative up until the 19th Century.
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There has been a banking crisis, a financial crisis, an economic crisis, a social crisis, a geostrategic crisis and an environmental crisis. That's considerable in a country that's used to being protected.
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I say whatever I think and whatever is on my mind, and I just hope that it comes out good. I just try to have a lot of fun.
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He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.
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I think I see myself differently than most people see me.
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You don't make art, you find it.
