Walker Evans Quotes
You see, a document has use, whereas art is really useless. Therefore art is never a document, although it can adopt that style.
Quotes to Explore
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All religions have been made by men.
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Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
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Live TV has an amazing pace to it. You've got to be able to think quick, make changes last minute, and be funny and fast.
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I would like to see America some day.
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How the visual world appears is important to me. I'm always aware of the light. I'm always aware of what I would call the 'deep composition.' Photography in the field is a process of creation, of thought and technique. But ultimately, it's an act of imaginatively seeing from within yourself.
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The guitar for me is a translation device. It's not a goal. And in some ways, jazz isn't a destination for me. For me, jazz is a vehicle that takes you to the true destination - a musical one that describes all kinds of stuff about the human condition and the way music works.
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As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like.
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The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.
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I wanted to be a writer first, and I struck out in the world to be a writer first, and then found stand-up as a more creative outlet, as a 3D way to be creative.
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Authority has to exist before it can be limited, and it is authority that is in scarce supply in those modernizing countries where government is at the mercy of alienated intellectuals, rambunctious colonels, and rioting students.
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Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.
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What makes Mom the best is that she never put any expectations too high on the kids. She just wanted us to be doing the things that made us happy, as long as we were working hard, but we never had to live up to something.
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Somehow I got the feeling at an early age that I had to do something important with my life.
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Over the years, I have realized that there's more to a film's fate than just good acting and a solid script. It needs to be marketed well. It's the package that sells - the songs, action, actors, etc.
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Lastly, his tomb shall list and founder in the troughs of grass. And none shall speak his name.
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My father played guitar, so I always wanted to play for that reason. But I think the biggest reason was just the '90s in general - growing up listening to the Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day and bands like that, and going to concerts and thinking it was the coolest thing in the world.
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Anyone who's seen me before knows that when it's fight time, I don't have much to say.
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I don't want to hear about my death.
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Be as polite to the custodian as you are to the chairman of the board.
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Success for me is synonymous with freedom.
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Life wasn't about freeing up human souls. It was about creating obedient slaves in the hierarchical construction of the society - with God at the top, then the king and then the father.
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Art should be transgressive. Life is not all sweet.
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I think because I've gotten permission from my style icons like Tim Gunn and André Leon Talley, who say to me, "You don't need to dress like anyone else, because you're your own fashion icon. You represent comfortable. And you do fashion your way, and you should be at Fashion Week." They gave me permission to enjoy it! And it's great!
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You see, a document has use, whereas art is really useless. Therefore art is never a document, although it can adopt that style.
