Anton Chekhov Quotes
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But only art and music have the power to bring peace.
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Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally.
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I'm more for the style than the brand. I don't go brand shopping; I go detail shopping.
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Surreal fiction is a sophisticated art form. Events happen divorced from conventional logic, as events in a dream may happen. But unlike dreams, everything in the story contributes to an overall coherent point, impression or emotion.
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I'm very interested in science.
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I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.
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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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I love science fiction.
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It's very hard to find perfection in your life. But in the art world you can do that.
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Science fiction is trying to find alternative ways of looking at realities.
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Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
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In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.
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The ultimate, if distant, aim of the Bauhaus is the unified work of art - the great structure - in which there is no distinction between monumental and decorative art.
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The early expression of my youth was filled with all the aspects of art.
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We look at science as something very elite, which only a few people can learn. That's just not true. You just have to start early and give kids a foundation. Kids live up, or down, to expectations.
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Filmmaking is a very privileged art form. It costs a lot of money to make these things.
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Endorsing unconventional monetary policies unquestioningly is tantamount to saying that it is acceptable to distort asset prices if there are other domestic constraints on growth.
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Hollywood wants to go for the flash, because that's what a lot of them think science fiction is.
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Art is all about the experience. I could say I don't really relate to opera, but then you watch Placido Domingo, and you go, 'Blimey, look at that.'
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I'm seeking to have an art that is engaged as a way for saying, 'Hurray for unity.'
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Some people don't have a sense of humor.
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The worst thing we can do is to do nothing.
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And when you appear all the rivers sound in my body, bells shake the sky, and a hymn fills the world.
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The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on; science and art are as well.
