Elfriede Jelinek Quotes
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I feel like Adele is a diva. Not in the bad way. She is one of the greatest voices of this industry and of her own art. What she offers is so unique that she's risen to such a status that very few artists can enjoy.
Xavier Dolan -
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.
Nancy Kress -
There was a time when I was practicing law in New York and I wanted to find something else to do. So I ended up leaving the practice of law to pursue my art and it just happened to be out of Lego bricks.
Nathan Sawaya -
There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
Samuel Johnson -
Contemporary art will help me to modernise our society.
Victor Pinchuk -
The world of fiction is a sovereign world that comes to life in the author's head and follows the rules of art, of literature. And that is the major difference that is reflected in the form of the work, in its language and its plot. An author invents every aspect of a fiction, every detail.
Imre Kertesz
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Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.
Pablo Picasso -
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.
T Bone Burnett -
Music is an art that touches the depth of human existence; an art of sounds that crosses all borders.
Daniel Barenboim -
As authors, most - most authors, our art is portraying the human condition. Trying to show you what it's like to be somebody else, trying to make you feel for somebody else. That means you have to have a high degree of empathy.
Patrick Rothfuss -
Cultural tourism surveys consistently rate San Francisco's art industry as a core reason for visiting.
Gavin Newsom -
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.
Sam Taylor-Wood
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Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.
Mae West -
In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
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.
Jacob Epstein -
Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
Pablo Picasso -
Fear of carbs, of gluten, of everything - we've distanced ourselves from the beauty of food, the art of it. It makes me sad when people say, 'Oh, I don't eat gluten. I don't eat cheese. I don't eat this. So I eat cardboard.'
Olivia Wilde -
You have to be very careful with the art you create and you put out.
Kat Graham
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Observe that it is a great error to believe that all mediums of art are not closely tied to their time.
Camille Pissarro -
A man in his own secret meditation / Is lost amid the labyrinth that he has made / In art or politics.
William Butler Yeats -
Without heroes, we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go.
Bernard Malamud -
a good woman will pick you aparta box full of suggestions for your possible heartand you may be offended. and you may be afraidbut don't walk away, don't walk away
Conor Oberst Bright Eyes -
I'm unshockable, fortunately - or unfortunately.
Jaye Davidson -
There are no holidays for art; and that’s just fine with the artist.
Elfriede Jelinek