Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
Octavia E. Butler
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The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.
J. D. Salinger
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Traditionalists often study what is taught, not what there is to create.
Ed Parker
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Segregation, in a sense, helped create and maintain black solidarity.
Randall Kennedy
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Suppose I put polka dots all over my body and then cover my background completely with polka dots. The polka dots on my body, merging with those in the background, create an optically strange scene.
Yayoi Kusama
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The responsibility of an artist is to be honest with themselves.
Talib Kweli Black Star
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Being my dad's daughter has allowed me to do a lot of things that maybe another artist might not be able to do or wouldn't be necessarily embraced doing.
Natalie Cole
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The mere drawing and painting world of the pattern designer and the applied artist must become a world that builds again.
Walter Gropius
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Our first manager really pushed that we not sell our publishing rights, which is one of the earliest things an artist will do: They'll sell in order to get a cash advance.
Isaac Hanson Hanson
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There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
Victor Hugo
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I think it would help tremendously to have a senator that knows where jobs come from, that knows how to create them, that knows how to bring them back and, importantly, knows what it means to manage billions of dollars' worth of expenses and cut billions of dollars' worth of expenses.
Carly Fiorina
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I think with anything where you delve into the back story of an artist, it kind of explains their work more intimately.
Aaron Johnson
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A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.
Orson Welles
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My synesthesia is mostly gone - it was a much bigger factor when I was a kid. But having no depth perception is a bonus when you're trying to lay out flat images and describe them to an artist - flat is all I see.
G. Willow Wilson
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The artist is the consciousness of society... but musicians' role is very special.
Wadada Leo Smith
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My pleasure was to copy, not to create.
Manuel Puig
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Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.
Ad Reinhardt
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All these big corporations like Amazon, those places have great distribution arms, but they can't create content.
D. B. Sweeney
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If a person wants to enjoy attention, he will create situations to get it.
Imtiaz Ali
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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
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That's what happens nowadays with people working on computers. They can so easily fix things with their mouse and take out all the, 'Oh, somebody coughed in the background; we need to take that out' - or somebody hit a bad note. Those are all the best moments.
Jack White The White Stripes
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Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing to experience for himself what happened in Palestine.
Bashar al-Assad
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I made a terrible mistake last Christmas. My wife made me swear that I wouldn't give her a fancy gift. And I didn't.
Milton Berle
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Create, artist, do not talk.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe