Bono (Paul David Hewson) 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.
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Art is always criticized and always an outsider gets the blame.
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Contemporary art will help me to modernise our society.
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Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
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Art is like breathing for me. If I don't do it, I start to choke.
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I wanted to be an animator originally. I went to art school; I went to art college and everything. But that screen was just calling me.
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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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Any art communicates what you're in the mood to receive.
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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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Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It's rage, it's creativity, it's pain, it's hurt, but it's the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music.
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We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand.
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Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
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You can't just take an image and randomly distort it and call it art - although many people in La Jolla where I come from do precisely that.
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For me, as an actor, there is no commercial or independent or art cinema. For me, it's a character that is given by the director. And it is a task for me that I have to fulfill it to the best of my ability regardless of the kind of film that it is.
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All art is propaganda, and ever must be, despite the wailing of the purists. I stand in utter shamelessness and say that whatever art I have for writing has been used always for propaganda for gaining the right of black folk to love and enjoy. I do not care a damn for any art that is not used for propaganda.
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When I sit down to begin penciling a page, most of the hard work for me is done. I can concentrate solely on my art from that point on, which is the fun part!
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It's kind of an art, going out and performing. I'd like fans to remember me as a guy who would go out and entertain them, give them quality matches, and not just the same old garbage every week.
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Artists talk in 'art speak.'
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I think art, especially literature, has the particular power to immerse the viewer or reader into another world. This is especially powerful in literature, when a reader lives the experience of the characters. So if the characters are human and real enough, then readers will feel empathy for them.
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It is easy to take a photograph, but it is harder to make a masterpiece in photography than in any other art medium.
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When a thing is true, there is no need to use any arguments to substantiate it.
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We build our character as a carapace to keep away the fear of the abyss. That's what our character is for.
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Recent studies have shown that our creativity is increased by 60% when we're walking. I encourage my workshop participants to write at their desks but think on their feet.
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If I don't understand it, it must be art.
