Anthony Trollope Quotes
It is the test of a novel writer's art that he conceal his snake-in-the-grass; but the reader may be sure that it is always there.
Quotes to Explore
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To keep art stimulating, it's important to open it up to new horizons, which includes showing it in unexpected contexts.
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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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I was just as voracious a writer as I was a reader.
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In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.
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The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
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Some of the best art in the world is collaborative, a mix of voices that are stronger together than separate. Take the Beatles, for example. Or every great movie ever made. We like to say they're the director's vision, but really, they're huge collaborations between directors, writers, actors, even producers.
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Do activities you're passionate about - which make your heart and soul feel perky - including things like working out, cooking, painting, writing, yoga, hiking, walking, swimming, being in nature, being around art, or reading inspiring books.
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I love music videos, I really do. I think it's kind of sad that it's a dying art form.
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The world of painting has nothing to do with the art world.
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Art is something absolute, something positive, which gives power just as food gives power. While creative science is a mental food, art is the satisfaction of the soul.
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A work of art is good if it has grown out of necessity.
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Once people have seen four or five Henry Moores, they will have a sense of great art.
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My mom is an art teacher and my dad owns a women's shoe store, so they're not actors by any means. Well, I guess to sell women's shoes, you have to be an actor.
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I know that one of the great arts that the writer develops is the art of saying, 'No. No, I'm finished. Bye.' And leaving it alone. I will not write it into the ground. I will not write the life out of it. I won't do that.
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Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.
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Well to be perfectly frank with you I never created art or have done demonstrations for anyone before myself artistically. I always do it to try to push my own envelope to be the best I can be.
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I love film criticism as an art. I think it's a very important thing.
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Whereas painting is a more rarefied art form, with a limited audience, I recognized film as this extraordinary social tool that could reach tremendous numbers of people.
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There were certain young actors I had trained with at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art who had always got the big parts and I was always the spear-carrier. Suddenly the roles were reversed and I couldn't understand why, and nor could they.
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Art made by the people for the people, as a joy to the maker and the user.
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There is no better way of elevating the novel than by making it into a construct which contains ideas.
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I'd say we do reach somewhat of a younger audience, but I think for the most part that younger audience is picking our music up from a brother or sister or even parent, who is turning them onto the band.
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I am not a prisoner of my sexuality like men younger than myself although I write about being a prisoner.
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It is the test of a novel writer's art that he conceal his snake-in-the-grass; but the reader may be sure that it is always there.
