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"978 Art Quotes

The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.

Between Burns Difference Longer
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I'm very crafty! One time I made a television set out of a cardboard box - Everybody thought it was a lark! This was the beginning of a love affair with the arts.

Affair Arts Beginning Box
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If I hadn't done 'Harry Potter,' I would have gone and done years of art. I really do love it, and I'd love to write.

Art Done Gone Harry
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You never really know as an actor; it's completely out of your control, in terms of editing, and music, and film stock, shot selection, and what takes they use.

Actor Control Editing Film
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I paint and I draw and I write and I do other things too, and recently some people at school were asking if I'd ever publish any of my work. But I almost feel like I would have to publish it under another name because there's a definition of me out there that feels kind of stuck in the moment when it was formed.

Almost Another Any Asking
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I could never really imagine myself doing one thing, and I'm pretty sure that I'll end up doing four or five different things. I want to be a Renaissance woman. I want to paint, and I want to write, and I want to act, and I want to just do everything.

Act Could Different DifferentThings
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If I could prescribe a single rule for looking at a work of art it would be to enjoy it. If we're honest with ourselves, we have to admit we enjoy our tears just as much as we enjoy our laughter. The only moments of life that are a bore are when we don't care one way or another.

Art Laughter Tears
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One thing is certain: the arts keep you alive. They stimulate, encourage, challenge, and, most of all, guarantee a future free from boredom. They allow growth and even demand it in that time of life we call maturity but too often enter it with a childish faith that what we learned in youth is sustenance enough for the years when most men are mentally famished but won't admit it—or when they are apt to curb their hunger with the sops of complacency, security, and the assurance of death.

Art Maturity Men
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Well, what do you owe yourself? Do you dare take time out to listen to the grass grow, or can you even afford the expense of getting far enough away from life's daily cacophony to hear it grow if you took the time?

Cacophony Enough Grass Life
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I know what I like—I like art—and I like what I know.
Art Knows
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It's just endless what you can learn from a single work of art. You can fill up the crevices of your life, the cracks of your life, the places where the mortar comes out and falls away-you can fill it up with the love of art.

Art Fall Cracks
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Sometimes you read a passage by a great writer, and you know what he says and how he says it will always be, for you, the only possible way it could be. Less often a painter will describe an event in a way that fits into your interpretation of that event so perfectly that it becomes the event itself.

Events Way Sometimes
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There's such a thing as theater discipline. One player doesn't appropriate another's inventions.

Another Appropriate Discipline Inventions
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I'm an actor and it happened to go my way that day.

Actor Day Go Happened
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I've made a wonderful living playing that theatrical character - the professional brassy dame.

Character Dame Living Made
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I am known to be able to take care of myself when I become angry. I don't mince words.

Able Am Angry Become
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As far as dramas are concerned, it's considered passe for playwrights to turn out anything the average person can understand.

Anything As Far As Average Average Person
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That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.

Any Artist Depression Good
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Actors are one family over the entire world.
Actor Entire Entire World Family
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Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.

Art Bread Breaking Chief
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Where thou art, that is home.

Art Home Thou Thou Art
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Definitely they write themselves. It's an amazing experience. It's like the characters have come alive and are sitting on my shoulder talking to me, telling me their tales.

Alive Amazing Amazing Experience Characters
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I'm trying to make all the characters change and grow, or regress.
Change Characters Grow Make
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Writing is an incredibly lonely job.
Incredibly Job Lonely Writing
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Here's the thing, for me at least: this is a huge genre now. It wasn't always so. Not so many years ago, it wasn't so. There is a tremendous diversity in fantasy today.

Always Diversity Fantasy Genre
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That's the whole point of writing to me - I put my characters under incredible duress, and from that comes their truth. In a way, I'm using them to try to find my own answers in life.

Answers Characters Find Incredible
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Science fiction is the ugly stepchild of mainstream literature, and fantasy is the ugly stepchild of science fiction, and tie-in novels are the ugly stepchild of fantasy... and on and on and on.

Fantasy Fiction Literature Mainstream
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The most common criticism I've seen is that I write 'popcorn fantasy:' lightweight action-adventure. Some people call it that as they explain why they love it for exactly that reason. I'm cool with that, either way. I just nod and let it go.

Call Common Cool Criticism
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Fantasy is like an idealized reality, and the core of fantasy is the one person can make a difference.

Core Difference Fantasy Like
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Whenever you're writing a book or creating a movie or a game, your first task is to get the reader/audience/player to suspend disbelief, to buy into the logic and boundaries of your world, even though those boundaries might include things like dragons and magic. To do that, you need long threads - of history and culture.

Book Boundaries Buy Creating
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The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake.

Art Arts Badly Bearable
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These critics with the illusions they've created about artists - it's like idol worship. They only like people when they're on their way up... I cannot be on the way up again.

About Again Artists Cannot
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I've had mixtapes that have been better than albums I've heard from other artists. I take my time; I put my heart into it.

Albums Artists Been Better
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I've been very fortunate to be able to use my series as a platform to show a good message for the kids.

Able Been Fortunate Good
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Martial arts was really the first thing in my life that I followed through on and accomplished a degree of proficiency for.

Accomplished Arts Degree First
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Yesterday, I did some painting then went out to buy an onion and came home and watched 'University Challenge.' The onion was probably the highlight.

Buy Came Challenge Did
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I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're good or there because they're lucky.

Always Any Art Because
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Acting is the most minor of gifts. After all, Shirley Temple could do it when she was four.

Acting After Could Four
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If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
Lead Dog Scenery.
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Every work of art is a trick by which the artist manipulates appearances
Work Art Trick Artist
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Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.

Acting Childish Else Nice
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Arts is just as important as military defense, you know? Emotional defense is just as important.

Arts Defense Emotional Important
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Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.
Art Concealed Obvious Step
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What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.
Ages Art Criticism Distinguishes
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Abstract painting seeks to be a pure pictorial language, and thus attempts to escape the essential impurity of all languages: the recourse to signs or forms that have meanings shared by everyone.

Abstract Attempts Escape Essential
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I know I'm not the best. I'm not the best singer, I'm not the best songwriter, I'm not the best player.

Best Know Player Singer
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The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.

Any Author Fiction Form
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To be a great painter means to be a great poet: someone who transcends the limits of his language.

Great His Language Limits
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The work of art is always unfaithful to its creator... Art lays at a higher level; it says something more, and almost always, it says something different from what the artist wanted to say.

Almost Always Art Artist
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The ability to make somebody feel something: that's art. However you look at it, whether you're an author, a painter, a singer, a rapper, a spoken-word artist - art.

Feel Ability Singer Art
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