Alex Grey Quotes
The purpose of truly transcendent art is to express something you are not yet, but something that you can become.
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I've gotten this advice at different times, and it distills down to one word: purpose. Why are you here? When you start to get distracted by thoughts such as 'Do I fit in? Does this person like me?' - remember why you're there and what you want to accomplish.
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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
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I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.
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I've been fortunate to work with partners like Weinstein and John and Art Linson in developing 'Yellowstone' and am grateful that it has found a home in the Paramount Network. The show is both timely and timeless.
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The music comes through me, and I let it come the way it comes, and it shapes itself. I just hold space for it. I don't intend to write it for a purpose, but it comes as it comes and am proud of the way it can support change because I believe strongly in what I sing about.
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One of the worst of errors would be the general admission of the proposition that a Government has no right to interfere for any purpose except for that of affording protection.
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A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable.
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I like elegance. I like art nouveau; a stretched line or curve. These things are very much in the foreground of my work.
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Commit yourself to a mighty purpose.
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My wife is a painter, musician, and fiber artist. We married in 1993, and as she worked, I found that my reading about art was helping me understand what she was doing, just as seeing her work gave me a language with which to speak of art.
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Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.
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The art of boxing is seeing spaces and being able to take shots. The hitting and being hit have to become one. Your reactions have to be so in the moment. There's no time to think.
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As a consumer, I don't create art, but I think whatever the message is, art has to touch you.
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As much as I enjoy traveling and playing on stage as an artist, I really find my true sense of purpose in a room writing a song.
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Natural resources must be so distributed, by way of auction or otherwise, that they serve a larger public purpose.
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Under HB 2655, the state is responsible to ensure parents are aware of the purpose and value of assessments and receive notice from their local school districts about their rights and obligations. Educators must engage with parents about the value of assessment and the potential consequences if parents opt out and student participation diminishes.
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Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it.
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You just don't see the same type of all-purpose entertainers nowadays.
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In a sense, a hit belongs to the person who made it popular, but if a tune is good enough to attain tremendous success, then it certainly deserves more than one version, one treatment, one approach.
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One of the things that voters have said about Donald Trump, since he has no government experience, is that he will be able to surround himself with good advisers.
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Journalism is a giant catapult set in motion by pigmy hatreds.
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of English It's your language. I'm just trying to use it.
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The purpose of truly transcendent art is to express something you are not yet, but something that you can become.
