Paul Simon Quotes
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Art is always criticized and always an outsider gets the blame.
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Books are my art. The movie is someone else's art. But it's great marketing for books.
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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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Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.
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I believe love at first sight is possible. Centuries of literature and art and beauty has been dedicated to that idea, so who am I to argue, even if I've never experienced it?
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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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I had a job since I was old enough to work - since I was, like, 14.
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Art is a mind-game that we do to make our lives easier. If it isn't for that, it becomes superfluous.
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Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.
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If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win.
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Perhaps at some time in the future, when you ask a friend to come up and look at your etchings, you will plug in your collection of video art.
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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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Art, whatever form it takes, requires hard work, craftsmanship and creativity. As a writer, I know my grammar, cadence, the music of prose, and the art of the narrative.
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Figure skating is a mixture of art and sport.
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What thoughts are to the individual, art is to the community as a whole. That's where you reflect on who you are, who you hope to be, what you've gone through, and where you hope to go.
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My motivation for being a good drummer was born out of fear, which, in a way, seems so antithetical to what art should be.
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Filmmaking is a very privileged art form. It costs a lot of money to make these things.
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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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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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Everything you want to be, you already are. You're simply on the path to discovering it.
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I'm interested in that whole question of where we wear our identity and how can we see it.
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The American nation in the sixth ward is a fine people; they love the eagle - on the back of a dollar.
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Facts can be turned into art if one is artful enough.
