Luc de Clapiers Quotes
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But only art and music have the power to bring peace.
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I was at art school that had quite a celebrated film course as well. I tried for that film course when I was 18, but they said I was too young. I tried this audio and visual design course instead. Two years later, I reapplied for that higher course, but they said I was still too young and to try in five years.
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Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity.
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Books are my art. The movie is someone else's art. But it's great marketing for books.
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Cartooning at its best is a fine art. I'm a cartoonist who works in the medium of animation, which also allows me to paint my cartoons.
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For believers, both privilege and privation are a trial, and both demand responses: one demands service, and the other demands patience. The greatest privilege is to live well in flourishing lands; the greatest privation is to live in the midst of war, especially civil war.
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The record business is dangerous to the health of bands and individuals, which is something I'm just now learning. But it's not dangerous in any of the ways people think; it's not that they try to make you compromise your art. That's not the problem.
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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 work in the film business, where schmoozing is an art form, lunch hour lasts from 12:30 until 3, and every meeting takes an hour whether there's an hour's worth of business or not.
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Yoga is the one L.A. thing I actually like.
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I never write my stories as a wake-up call as such. I simply explore the kinds of situations that I find personally challenging by placing characters into situations that challenge them in similar ways.
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I think that music is still art, even if it's commercialised.
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In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.
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Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
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My painting does not come from the easel.
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The art world is filled with vibrancy.
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My motivation for being a good drummer was born out of fear, which, in a way, seems so antithetical to what art should be.
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Rules and models destroy genius and art.
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I think actors are at the mercy of the opportunities presented to them. So you kind of have to wait for them to choose you. My music is insular - I can choose that.
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A smile costs about $240.
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It's populated by people who, by and large, have terrific communication skills. Every day is an extraordinary day. For me, it was just a great area for storytelling.
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I don't believe in compromise, I believe there is a goal we are trying to reach.
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Patience is the art of hoping.
