If you judge everything by how photographically real it looks, then you're missing out on a lot of what art is about and what communication is. There are ambiguities in life, and that should be reflected in art, cinema, and storytelling, I think.
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Related It is what it is, it is what you make it. JAMES DURBIN In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did... JONATHAN HAIDT What art is, in reality, is this missing link, not the links which exist. It's not what you see ... MARCEL DUCHAMP Art teaches you the philosophy of life, and if you can't learn it from art, you can't learn ... WILLIAM MORRIS HUNT Artists today think of everything they do as a work of art. It is important to forget about what you... ANDREW WYETH But if you're talking about fine art work, then I think you have to ask yourself some pretty dee... LEONARD NIMOY I think that's just part of how it is with making art. Sometimes you're just flooded with id... DANA SCHUTZ As long as you're true to you, you believe it and you make others believe it, then what you'... JAKE OWEN I really think there's no difference between an art piece made by a man and one made by a woman.... MARINA ABRAMOVIC Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is. MICHAEL KEATON I think you choose how you walk through this life. I think if you choose to participate in a paradig... BELLAMY YOUNG Because I'm an art historian, I have some experience of writing that comes out of close attentio... TEJU COLE I think that's what art is: art is communication made in the hope that interesting miscommunications... MISHA GLOUBERMAN When you think about Dada and the great moments in Modern Art, it's always the sense of when you... RICHARD PHILLIPS Part of what I do and what I want to do is I want to bring art into the everyday life. If you can ta... KENNY SCHARF And then as I got older, see, I think a lot of times with comics, your life kind of permeates your a... BILLY GARDELL The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art -- and, by analogy, our own expe... SUSAN SONTAG The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own exper... SUSAN SONTAG The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art / and, by analogy, our own exper... SUSAN SONTAG When you're a little kid, you just like music that makes you happy and is fun. As you get older,... PATRICK STUMP Art and music is part of what it means to be a human being. And if you're neglecting that, you... JOSHUA BELL You never know about the art world because it's a matter of opinion. If you look at old art like... PETER SAUL How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it g... C. JOYBELL C. Cinema is the ultimate pervert art. It doesn't give you what you desire - it tells you how to desire... SLAVOJ ŽIžEK Art should not be bound by barriers or language. The Hindi film industry is a testament to that. We ... 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There's a lot of bad architecture out there, and I think... NATHANIEL KAHN If you're in control of everything, then no matter what it is, you can make that feminine. CHARLI XCX I think that's what art is about: to provoke you. It helps me make sense of a senseless universe... T. C. BOYLE There's a lot of thought in art. People get to talk about important things. There's a lot of... STEVE MARTIN To stand on the brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli... ASK AND IT IS GIVEN Ke$ha is her art; there is no curtain you peel back to find the real person. And with Ke$ha, you nev... BENNY BLANCO Movie acting is about covering the machinery. Stage acting is about exposing the machinery. In cinem... MICHAEL CAINE Art is commenting on what's going on around you in your life. AL JOURGENSEN The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life. Unlike pain... JEAN-LUC GODARD When we can't determine what is art - when you get to that point where we're not sure, that&... RICHARD PHILLIPS I think what makes compelling fiction or cinema is when you're basically taking the most intense... DAVID O. RUSSELL But what does interest me is the notion that if you do a lot of work it means there's a potentia... RICHARD SERRA What I focus on in life is what I get. And if I concentrate on how bad I am or how wrong I am or how... W. MITCHELL If you speak your mind and if it is true what you're saying, then I think the integrity of what ... BILL COSBY In my opinion, if you want to pursue an art, especially acting, you have to be really perceptive of ... RITA VOLK I think if a horror movie is really scary, you'll think about it for weeks, and there's some... FIONA DOURIF What is art? Art talks about life; it's subversive. TAHAR RAHIM I think what's important in a good manager and a good agent is that they know your vision and th... MAIARA WALSH I think whatever art form you're in, whether TV, film or theater, you should know the history of... KEVIN CHAMBERLIN In real life, the most important decision you ever make is, where does reality leave off and make-be... TELLER Art is basically communication, and I think everyone who's a music lover has had that experience... CONOR OBERST If you're a writer, you know there are ways in which we don't know what we're doing at a... COLUM MCCANN I think there is a debate in the arts about, you know, whether we must strive for art for art's ... SARAH JONES You have to love what you do. And in order to do that, you have to search your soul to find out what... MACEO PARKER Szerzetesek, vannak tanulatlan, közönséges emberek, akik nem gondolnak a nemes dolgokkal, nem hal... GAUTAMA BUDDHA És Brahmá, a Teremtő, felső ruháját fél vállán átvetve, összetett kézzel meghajolt a Mag... GAUTAMA BUDDHA A lot of country music is sad. I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times. It applies to m... WILLIE NELSON Great art - or good art - is when you look at it, experience it and it stays in your mind. I don'... DAMIEN HIRST Your value does not decrease if there is someone’s inability to see your worth. Remind yourself of... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA When you become a parent, you leave a lot of things behind and refocus, maybe on how simple life rea... CHRIS CORNELL I think at the beginning of a project, you decide if you're in love with the idea and what it... SPIKE JONZE There is nothing else than now. There is neither yesterday, certainly, nor is there any tomorrow. Ho... ERNEST HEMINGWAY Art was carrying me a lot of the time. When you're accustomed to playing with Art, and you play ... BENNY GREEN I think when you're young, you're a lot more open-minded, and sometimes you're a lot mor... ZENDAYA Playing live is really the art form. You're a lot freer, a lot looser. You've got people the... BUTCH TRUCKS My standards are based on shows I like, like 'Girls' or 'Arrested Development.' And ... RACHEL BLOOM There are a lot of movies about misfits that are quite cool, that kind of glamorize it on some level... REBECCA HALL You should run your life not by the calendar but how you feel, and what you're interests are and... JOHN GLENN I think you learn a lot about a country from its art. To me, it's part of the drama of life. It teac... MICHAEL PALIN I'm pretty easily overwhelmed and pretty tough as well. I think I'm tougher than I used to b... NATHANIEL RATELIFF Our entire brand is about transparency. We want that data out there because you know what? If you ar... SAM YAGAN Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do. ELIZABETH BOWEN An educated person's ideas of Art are drwan naturally from what Art has been, whereas the new work o... OSCAR WILDE What you learn in school is the opposite of what happens in the real world. In school, you're al... GUY KAWASAKI What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind. It is... JOHN BERGER I don't know what the definition of pornography is and nobody else does either. Pornography is someb... ERICA JONG I've been misquoted a lot, and there's this tendency for people to put on to you how they th... MAURA TIERNEY When you're young, you don't have any experience - you're charged up, but you're out... NEIL YOUNG What looks like garbage from one angle might be art from another. Maybe it did take a crisis ... JODI PICOULT What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do - especially in other people... WILLIAM LEAST HEAT-MOON If you're afraid of death, I would say, either fight for your life or come to grips with the fac... ROBBY BENSON A lot of people, especially Christians, want to put you in this box of being a Christian actor, and ... ZACHARY LEVI If you are given a chance to be a role model, I think you should always take it because you can infl... TIGER WOODS Fear is a problem with film music and films; people want to be conventional, and there's more co... ALEX NORTH Life is what you make of it. You have to decide what you want in life. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA In quiet moments when you think about it, you recognize what is critically important in life and wha... RICHARD G. SCOTT In the mid- to late '60s to the mid-'70s, when I was a student, there was a major change in ... BILL VIOLA Should anyone attempt to deceive you by false expressions, and
not be a true friend at heart, act i... THOMAS CARLYLE The thing I learned about being in this industry is the core of hosting and the core of acting is au... HANNAH SIMONE
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It was for gentle Shakespeare cut,
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Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy
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To be made honest by an act of parliament
I should not alter in my faith of him. BEN JONSON Laugh, and be fat, sir, your penance is known.
They that love mirth, let them heartily drink,
... BEN JONSON Genius without education is like silver in the mine. -Ben Franklin. BEN FRANKLIN Genius without education is like silver in the mine. BEN FRANKLIN It's just kind of surreal. We're trying not to think too far ahead but we know we have a lot of work... BEN LINDSEY than any other man who ever ran for office in Denver. BEN LINDSEY Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something ha... BEN LINDSEY Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something h... BEN LINDSEY Do your best and let God do the rest. BEN CARSON Force works on servile natures, not the free. BEN JOHNSON Opportunities pop up for everybody all of the time. It's the way that we progress. It's whether or n... BEN BROWN We want books that make our hearts beat harder... that relieve us of the agonizing burden of everyda... BEN OLIVEIRA Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger. BEN OKRI Happiness doesn't result from what we get, but from what we give. BEN CARSON 'Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to beg... BEN JONSON Bad people excuse their faults; wise people leave them. BEN JOHNSTON Wonder if there is life on another planet? Let's suppose there is. Suppose further, that only one st... BEN SWEETLAND The greatest waste in the world is the difference between what we are and what we could become. BEN HERBSTER Somewhere there is a map of how it can be done. BEN STEIN In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace. BEN HECHT You've got to make haste while it's still light of day. My godmother used to say, I don't want to ru... BEN VEREEN Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee. BEN JOHNSON No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may ... BEN JOHNSON He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity BEN JONSON I think it's probably honest to say that there's a certain powerful stillness that I remember admiri... BEN KINGSLEY I play golf with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games. BEN HOGAN Running for money doesn't make you run fast. It makes you run first. BEN JIPCHO We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen. BEN JONSON He threatens many that hath injured one. BEN JONSON No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conv... BEN ELTON It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower,... BEN BERGOR A good poet's made as well as born. BEN JOHNSON