The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen.
—Paul Klee
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Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.
—Robert Frost
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Talent is only the starting point.
—Irving Berlin
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Not everybody goes to movies to get their life changed.
—Samuel L. Jackson
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Carving is easy, you just go down to the skin and stop.
—Michelangelo
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Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.
—Ralph Ellison
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The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
—Salvador Dali
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I’ve done a movie and a TV series, and someday I’d like to do a successful movie and a successful TV series. That would be nice.
—Al Yankovic
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Where talent is a dwarf, self-esteem is a giant.
—John Petit-Senn
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Soon I’ll find the right words, they’ll be very simple.
—Jack Kerouac
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No government has the right to decide on the truth of scientific principles, nor to prescribe in any way the character of the questions investigated. Neither may a government determine the aesthetic value of artistic creations, nor limit the forms of literacy or artistic expression. Nor should it pronounce on the validity of economic, historic, religious, or philosophical doctrines. Instead it has a duty to its citizens to maintain the freedom, to let those citizens contribute to the further adventure and the development of the human race.
—Richard Feynman
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Как наука является разумом мира, так искусство — сердце его. Just as science is the intellect of the world, art is its soul.
—Maxim Gorky
As Pop Music Evolves
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I’d rather be smart than be an actor.
—Pinocchio
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If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
—Orson Welles
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lf l am not mistaken, the words “art” and “artist” did not exist during the Renaissance and before: there were simply architects, sculptors, and painters, practicing a trade.
—M. C. Escher
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Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
—Salvador Dali
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There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence transform a yellow spot into a sun.
—Pablo Picasso
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The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music; they should be taught to love it instead.
—Igor Stravinsky
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Easy writing makes hard reading.
—Ernest Hemingway
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Intellectuals are cynical and cynics have never built a cathedral.
—Henry Kissinger
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I don´t want to be interesting, I want to be good.
—Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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Marxism is a flight from the magic of the person and the mystique of hierarchy. It distorts the character of western culture, which is based on the charismatic power of person. Marxism can work only in pre-industrial societies of homogeneous populations. Raise the standard of living, and the rainbow riot of individualism will break out. Personality and art, which Marxism fears and censors, rebound from every effort to oppress them.
—Camille Pagila
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Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
—Cyril Connolly
Moar Shakespeare and Impeachment 2: Electric Boogaloo
… the baseless fabric of this vision …
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind.