Yann Martel Quotes
Art is a gift: you create and then you give away. How readers receive that gift is their business. If they hate it, that’s their response to it. Others respond by liking it. Either way, that is their interaction with the book, which is no longer mine.
Quotes to Explore
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The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.
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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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I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.
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When I was younger, I had no interest. But after I went to Paris to see the collections for the first time a few years ago, they made a huge impression on me. I realized that fashion is an art form, like acting or painting.
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I must be like the princess who felt the pea through seven mattresses; each book is a pea.
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I like elegance. I like art nouveau; a stretched line or curve. These things are very much in the foreground of my work.
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Getting into the residential investment business entails lots of renovation work.
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At some point, you decide to take something you really like and turn it into a business you love.
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My family always encouraged my drawing ability. Kids in school who teased me about my reading would get out of their seats and stand behind my desk as I worked and go, 'Wow, you can really draw.' Later, I earned a degree in Fine Art and got a Ph.D. in Art History.
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Just watching Jack Lemmon made me want to get into this business.
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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 enjoy it too much - even if I knew I'd never get a book published, I would still write. I enjoy the experience of getting thoughts and ideas and plots and characters organised into this narrative framework.
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As I discovered music, especially Rock 'n Roll, new territory was opened to me. I was lured by the unbridled rhythm of this art form. It was like gasoline on the fire of my youthful spirit.
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In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education.
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Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.
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As governor, I enjoy the opportunity to talk about Utah's measurable business success.
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Webster and I are very aloof. The two of us go and sit there by ourselves. I sit by myself in the corner with my book and the newspaper. He kind of runs around a little bit, and then he goes and sits on top of the picnic table. He never plays with other little dogs.
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My grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, dingy world.
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One of the things that I'm really proud of is that I have really good timing. It's very easy for me to see what's coming up and it's no coincidence that I went headfirst into wine and then headfirst into new media - none at all.
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Many of the lessons we are to learn in mortality can only be received through the things we experience and sometimes suffer. And God expects and trusts us to face temporary mortal adversity with His help so we can learn what we need to learn and ultimately become what we are to become in eternity.
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I wanted to be a dramatic actress. Life doesn't go the way you think it's going to go.
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I'm obsessed with hula-hooping. I do it for 20 minutes a day. I don't use the old-fashioned hollow plastic kind we had when we were kids, but I discovered a new one at Danskin that's smaller and weighted.
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Art is a gift: you create and then you give away. How readers receive that gift is their business. If they hate it, that’s their response to it. Others respond by liking it. Either way, that is their interaction with the book, which is no longer mine.
