Ben Okri Quotes
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You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
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I had parents in the business and they made sure that the art was the biggest concern.
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One thing I can say about George... he may not be able to keep a job, but he's not boring.
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The biggest thing is education for young chefs and how they should focus on one cuisine rather than trying to imitate too many. It's like art - you can see the cycles from many past artists and new artists being inspired by past artists.
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I think that's what art is about: to provoke you. It helps me make sense of a senseless universe because I become the god of the story. I create it, and I see it in all its lineaments in my own way and can control it – in a world in which everything else is out of control.
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Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?
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Cultural tourism surveys consistently rate San Francisco's art industry as a core reason for visiting.
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Success should stem from entrepreneurial creativity, not political connectivity.
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After studying art, I was a painter for a while and was asked to audition for a movie randomly. I hadn't thought of acting before that.
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Any art communicates what you're in the mood to receive.
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Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.
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When you make art, you get really invested in it. When art happens by accident and you were just along for the ride? It's way more fun.
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Creativity may be hard to nurture, but it's easy to thwart.
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I think that music is still art, even if it's commercialised.
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I was a screenwriting and studio art major in college, so even though I don't have any training as a floral designer, I have a very particular visual aesthetic.
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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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Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
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The comfort zone is the great enemy to creativity; moving beyond it necessitates intuition, which in turn configures new perspectives and conquers fears.
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Solitude is creativity's best friend, and solitude is refreshment for our souls.
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I'm not such an artist type that I can't handle the real world. I read the financial pages, because most people don't talk about art.
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..the function of art work is.. ..the renewal of memories of moments of perfection.
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The '80s market was only a Japanese market. It was the Japanese outbidding each other for the most expensive works of art. When the Japanese economy went down the tubes, there was no one left to pay the prices that have been recorded for all of those works.
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Each thread of life that you leave, will spin around your deeds and dictate your needs.
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Politics is the art of the possible; creativity is the art of the impossible.
