Immanuel Kant Quotes
Art does not want the representation of a beautiful thing, but the representation of something beautiful.
Quotes to Explore
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A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.
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I still remember my first Giacometti exhibition, and going back to the museum every day, whenever I could, to look again and again at these long, thin stick figures, so beautiful, so graceful. That, I think, was the moment I became really obsessed by art.
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I was in a commercial for the Disney channel. I was the camp leader for the campers.
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Some people ask, 'How do you attract the young and so many different people when your poetry is complicated and different?' I say, 'My accomplishment is that my readers trust me and accept my suggestions for change.'
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I'm Cuban, so I like a bit of curve. I just want my booty to have a little lift!
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I think that I am seeing the Internet and seeing technology take and seeing how the work I do through music directly affects people's lives better than any politician I've ever met.
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A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.
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I live with my family. I moved to L.A. eight years ago, and it's the same room. But I'm looking now. I might get a condo.
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I think if you are young and you have children, you still have so much to prove. When you have children later in life, you lose a bit of that urge for working.
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I just respect Kanye as an artist.
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You have to be brave when you've got a kid.
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I want some colleague to be free to come help me when I say the time has come. That's what I'm fighting for, me. Now that sounds selfish. And if it helps somebody else, so be it.
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I don't really have a main source for my style inspiration. It's really about however I feel about myself at the moment.
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All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.
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Any good attacker will always beat a defender who's face-marking you.
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The ability to calibrate risk doesn't happen rationally.
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The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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I think it would be hard to go the distance in this business without a sense of humor.
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As quoted in ''HEY, YOU CAN JUST MAKE STUFF UP.' Differences between magic and art: None', by Peter Bebergal, The Believer, (2013).
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Records are one thing, and obviously, without hit songs, you don't have the opportunity to do your shows. But my live show has always been my selling tool.
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Condemning art as manipulative is a non sequitur, of course. All art is manipulative.
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To be a king and wear a crown is a thing more glorious to them that see it than it is pleasant to them that bear it.
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Art does not want the representation of a beautiful thing, but the representation of something beautiful.
