Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes
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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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Our essential differences from the norm are both huge and deeply offensive to those among us who wish to be quietly integrated into society without particular reference to our nature.
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The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.
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I was a pretty pretentious kid. I was always making art.
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There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their foolish and random writing it would be impossible to overestimate - not to the artist, but to the public, blinding them to all but harming the artist not at all.
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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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The competitive nature of most mums and dads is astounding. The fear they instil in our promising but sensitive Johnny is utterly depressing. We need a parental cultural revolution.
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It's good to make your own things because you can have control of your own art.
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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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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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I'd like very much to make a confident picture. I would like to be as good as nature, which, with a shower, produces flowers and grass to cover the destruction. But we are surrounded by human fragmentation, by pessimism, and it is difficult to talk of other things.
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Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.
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Figure skating is a mixture of art and sport.
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I don't attempt to make people uncomfortable; I think that my standards in terms of art and journalism always have necessitated my discomfort.
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Capsizes kind of go hand in hand with 49er racing. I've had four to five capsizes in races and still won the event. It's just the nature of this type of sailing.
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There are infinite modes of expression in the world of art, and to insist that only by one road can the artist attain his ends is to limit him.
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Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them, or to use words like beauty, excellence, art, poetry, with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have.
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But the business side of it, as with most creative things, there is no room for business. It is about art. It's not about marketing.
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I know who the great poets are.
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We argued about how hard it would be to ride a bear, assuming said bear was muzzled.
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Our government just won't enforce civil rights laws. The laws will be ignored.
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I don't write songs thinking about formats, where is it going to get played, who am I gonna please, what's the outlet for it.
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Once upon a time I was falling in loveBut now I'm only falling apartThere's nothing I can doA total eclipse of the heartOnce upon a time there was light in my lifeBut now there's only love in the darkNothing I can sayA total eclipse of the heart.
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All art is but imitation of nature.
