Being a fan of authentic Dada, I find today's art - what I call 'Bankers' Dada' - mind-numbingly dull. The most challenging work I've seen of late is by The British Art Resistance. Their document, 'A Call for Heroes in an Age of Cowards', is apt in these days of witless chancers.
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Related I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ... MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill ROLAND SMITH It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea. JUDE WATSON About f-f-ace!" she said to the horse, flailing with her boots. "Into the barn, please. It's time fo... PETER LERANGIS You see?" Damien leaned over his desk and spread out half a dozen charcoal sketches. "These are only... RICK RIORDAN I'm still a big 'Grey's Anatomy' fan. BROOKE ELLIOTT I've got a few ideas," (Amy) admitted. "But I don't know where we're going in the long term. I mean ... RICK RIORDAN Alas, I think I am becoming a god. TITUS Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name. LUCAN I have a wife, I have sons: all of them hostages given to fate. LUCAN I used to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' pretty religiously. ERINN HAYES Don't have to see," the pilot grunted. "Olga knows the way." "Funny name for an aircraft... GORDON KORMAN Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end. SENECA Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness. SENECA We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing. SENECA Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take... SENECA Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life. SENECA Luck is where opportunity meets preparation. SENECA Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures. SENECA I always find Victoria's Secret models a bit weird. EDIE CAMPBELL When you think about Dada and the great moments in Modern Art, it's always the sense of when you... RICHARD PHILLIPS I've seen beautiful art on the sides of buildings. I've seen beautiful art in museums. I'... JOHN MELLENCAMP My daughter's first sentence was, 'Dada no hair.' And I was, like, 'No Jasmine, Dada... NIGEL BARKER I've always enjoyed feeling a connection to the avant-garde, such as Dada and surrealism and pop... JEFF KOONS I'm proud to say that I was that guy playing the character of Dr. Burke on 'Grey's Anato... ISAIAH WASHINGTON To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art. CHARLES BUKOWSKI Before 'Grey's Anatomy,' I was doing musicals, plays, commercials, you name it. CHANDRA WILSON I go into any movie that's historical fiction thinking, 'OK, I'm here to watch a work of... TONY KUSHNER 'The Art of the Brick' is an exhibition I've done where I've taken some works of art... NATHAN SAWAYA There's this idea of bankers retiring and painting watercolours. You can't dabble in art - i... JUSTIN CARTWRIGHT What is a Man / Woman who does not try and make the World Better? 'KINGDOM OF HEAVEN ' THE MOVIE I've studied astrology for many, many years, and I feel like it's an incredibly challenging ... LYNN COLLINS La vida es un regalo diario. Valóralo. Al final, lo que importa no son los años de vida, sino la v... PAOLA CALASANZ ''DULCINEA'' I mean, art for art's sake is ridiculous. Art is for the sake of one's needs. CARL ANDRE I've worked with actors before where I was like, this is not working, and then I've seen the... VINCENT KARTHEISER I'd like to explode a few myths about what we call classical music. It's not high art for th... CHARLES HAZLEWOOD I'm a big fan of British journalists like 'The Independent's Robert Fisk, but it's h... JACKSON BROWNE They got rid of bottled water. We got thermoses that say 'Grey's Anatomy Season 4' with ... BROOKE SMITH I'm Canadian, so I'm a big fan of the Canadian tuxedo - that's what we call it. I wear i... BRAD GORESKI I wouldn't call being a chef gratifying in a lot of ways. It's an act of love. ALEX GUARNASCHELLI What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real. RABINDRANATH TAGORE I went to an art school in Brooklyn and painted Fine Art, if that's what you'd call it for e... BILL GRIFFITH Being able to swing in and host the 'Today' show when they call me, it certainly is a new ex... JOHN CENA I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building en... WALT DISNEY A lot of people, especially Christians, want to put you in this box of being a Christian actor, and ... ZACHARY LEVI If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... ... VIN SCULLY I don't know if I have a favorite color. KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl. KATE MIDDLETON On 'Grey's Anatomy,' I didn't have to move too much. I think I ran through the hospi... ERIC DANE I think talking about one's love life is always... It's a Pandora's box, best kept in jo... EMMA CAULFIELD I've been around horses, but I certainly wouldn't call myself a horseman by any means. It... CHRIS COOPER One way or another, we all fight for what we believe in. Doesn't that give us some common ground? TOM CLANCY, 'THE CARDINAL OF THE KREMLIN' I'm a great fan of Bloomingdale's, and I'm a very loyal alumni of Parsons. I think what ... NARCISO RODRIGUEZ I love Charlie, Billy Burke's character. Writing for him is so spectacular, he's so funny an... MELISSA ROSENBERG Working with Angela Bassett is by far the best. I've watched and admired her for years. I'm ... LANCE GROSS There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I think there is a debate in the arts about, you know, whether we must strive for art for art's ... SARAH JONES Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of wh... EDGAR ALLAN POE I'm an enormous fan of Thomas Bernhard's books, and I like the relentless feeling in his wor... BEN MARCUS Good art however 'immoral' is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good... EZRA POUND I'm proud of the versatility I've had since I was in high school, getting in trouble for all... NOLAN NORTH I'm not in the luxury-goods business. I sell unique objects. I wish I was in luxury goods becaus... LARRY GAGOSIAN I just don't know the art of making friends with girls. And that's the reason why I've n... HARBHAJAN SINGH Art, a book, a painting, a song, can definitely inspire change, whether it's a small change or a... ROSE BYRNE You've got to know what your 'thing' is, and you've got to call it a 'thing,'... IYANLA VANZANT Some people have been kind enough to call me a fine artist. I've always called myself an illustr... NORMAN ROCKWELL I've been through a lot of different situations, and the key thing I've learned is: Don'... ADRIAN PETERSON I find it some of the hardest photography and the most challenging photography I've ever done. I... GALEN ROWELL This flattery has been rather slow in coming. I think all of sudden late in life now I'm getting... JACK VANCE I'm a huge 'Call of Duty' fan, 'Minecraft' and all those kinds of video games. I... OLIVIA HOLT I don't think geometric art is... I don't like to call it that. I don't think it's a... DONALD JUDD I'm an incurable romantic, and Casablanca's one of the most romantic pictures I've ever ... KEN ADAM For me, art is make-believe. It's enchantment. It's a fable. I'm enjoying that and playi... SHEA HEMBREY But I've never felt that being an actress is being in a comfortable place. It's seen from th... JULIETTE BINOCHE I'd call my work 'instinctual design.' I like to find the spirit of a piece that defies ... CHRIS BENZ We still go to nonfiction for content. And if it's well-written, that's a bonus. But we don&... GEOFF DYER I've always worked hard to create my own style. Nobody sounds like me. I've heard them call ... BILLY PAUL I've been a big fan of Michael Showalter's for a long time. I watched 'Stella' growi... ALIA SHAWKAT if you can't have the one you love, you can love the one you have IRAZ 'DEALOVA' I've never seen an obese person who has said, 'I am well in my mind.' Happiness stops fo... PIERRE DUKAN I think of other artists as generous when I get inspired by their work. That's why I like curati... NATE LOWMAN As powerful as is our soul's call, so potent are the forces of Resistance arrayed against it. We... STEVEN PRESSFIELD I'm a huge fan of 'Kung Fu Panda.' I honestly think that Jack Black's voice work in ... JOHN REQUA I'm not a big fan of CGI. I'm not a fan at all, unless they use it in a way that doesn't... BILLY CAMPBELL I love 'Monty Python,' 'Black Adder,' 'Fawlty Towers.' I'm a huge fan of... ISLA FISHER I've been hounded by a reputation of being difficult when really what I'm being is truthful ... GABRIELLE ANWAR What I've discovered is that in art, as in music, there's a lot of truth-and then there'... LADY GAGA I've always been a fan of advertising, I've always been a fan of television, I've loved ... JON HAMM In 'Spinal Tap,' there's the fake historical quality of 'Stonehenge.' It's s... CHRISTOPHER GUEST The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all i... , "THE CALL OF CTHULHU" None of the films I've done was designed for a mass audience, except for 'Indiana Jones.'... GEORGE LUCAS I am songwriter. I do compose the music of songs that I write in Bengali. But I've never thought... ARIJIT SINGH I am huge fan of Australian comedy. 'Strictly Ballroom' is one of my favorite movies. Defini... JONATHAN KRISEL I've always been a big fan of Rachel McAdams. I saw her for the first time in 'Mean Girls,... CASSI THOMSON I've had so many hot, cheesy, corny loves of music in my life. I had a very intense Billy Joel p... JACK BLACK I always think that today is the best day that there's ever been. The song that I'm working ... J. D. SOUTHER I've always seen TV as... it didn't occupy the same rarefied space as literature, but it'... LOUIS THEROUX
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