Famous Quotes: Art

No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.
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Our true nature is free of any and all notions of gender, of any notions of difference whatsoever.
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I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.
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I do like to write nasty songs. It's a useful weapon to have, and it's cathartic as well, because I create art out of anger, something positive out of something negative.
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Ragtime has about the same amount of respect as comics. And in a way they're similar art forms. Ragtime is highly compositional, and the emotion in the music is built in, whereas in jazz a lot of that emotion comes from the way it's performed.
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My heart has been heavy and I have deliberated within my own conscience, knowing that my decision should not come out of my initial emotion of anger toward the President for such reckless behavior, but should be based on the facts.
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I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos-especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom... Rather than starting inside, I start outside and reach the mental through the physical.
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I received from my experience in Japan an incredible sense of respect for the art of creating, not just the creative product. We're all about the product. To me, the process was also an incredibly important aspect of the total form.
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In human life, economics precedes politics or culture.
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The sex element is the most important in the business. You must sell sex.
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Internationalism on the other hand admits that spiritual achievements have their roots deep in national life; from this national consciousness art and literature derive their character and strength and on it even many of the humanistic sciences are firmly based.
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Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist.
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It wasn't so long ago that I was a working mom myself. And I know that sometimes, much as we all hate to admit it, it's just easier to park the kids in front of the TV for a few hours, so we can pay the bills or do the laundry or just have some peace and quiet for a change.
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I have witnessed the softening of the hardest of hearts by a simple smile.
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At an unprecedented time with the worst attack ever on our soil, our President displayed extraordinary determination, leadership and resolve when history was thrust upon him and the United States.
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Home is where one starts from.
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That freedom that Picasso afforded himself, to be an artist in a huge number of ways, seems to be a huge psychological liberation.
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I always loved aesthetics. Not particularly fashion, but an idea of beauty.
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It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.
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You never give away your heart; you lend it from time to time. If it were not so, how could we take it back without asking?
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