With the acting, it's somebody else's brainchild, and I'm just sort of helping flesh it out. There's a special satisfaction to being the brains behind the operation.

Jack Black

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Jack Black

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Jackie Chan

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What's the good of drawing in the next breath if all you do is let it out and draw in another?

Marilyn Monroe

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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.

William Faulkner

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The genuine artist is never 'true to life.' He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not go storming through life like actors in a play. Art is never real life.

Wallace Stevens

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From time immemorial artistic insights have been revealed to artists in their sleep and in dreams, so that at all times they ardently desired them.

Paracelsus

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The interpretation of dreams is a great art.

Paracelsus

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Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency to get the book written.

William Faulkner

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Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow.

Paracelsus

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There is only one school of literature - that of talent.

Vladimir Nabokov

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A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.

Vladimir Nabokov

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I like light, color, luminosity. I like things full of color and vibrant.

Oscar de la Renta

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When you are learning about a martial art, it is about respect.

Jackie Chan

About Art Learning Martial

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Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.

Adrienne Rich

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No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

Oscar Wilde

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Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force.

Oscar Wilde

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Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

Oscar Wilde

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Stadium rock and commercial rock are the opposite of what poetry needs. An audience of around 200 is ideal for poetry.

Adrian Mitchell

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You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.

George Bernard Shaw

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Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

George Bernard Shaw

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College isn't the place to go for ideas.

Helen Keller

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The art and passion of reading well and deeply is waning, but [Jane] Austen still inspires people to become fanatical readers.

Harold Bloom

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Reading well is one of the greatest pleasures that solitude can afford you.

Harold Bloom

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The work of great poetry is to aid us to become free artists ourselves...The art of reading poetry is an authentic training in the augmentation of consciousness, perhaps the most authentic of healthy modes.

Harold Bloom

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How can you be an artist and not reflect the times?

Nina Simone

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Indeed the three prophecies about the death of individual art are, in their different ways, those of Hegel, Marx, and Freud. I don't see any way of getting beyond those prophecies.

Harold Bloom

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Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

George Bernard Shaw

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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable.

Nadine Gordimer

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I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.

Jackie Collins

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I really fall in love with my characters, even the bad ones. I love getting together with them. They tell me what to do; they take me on a wild and wonderful trip.

Jackie Collins

Bad Bad Ones Characters Even

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For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Art Every Giveth Grace

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I don't see myself in terms of artifice. I see myself as a real person who chooses to live my life in an open way - artistically.

Lady Gaga

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I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.

Lady Gaga

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Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Great writing can be done in biography, history, art.

V.S. Naipaul

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I really wasn't equipped to be a writer when I left Oxford. But then I set out to learn. I've always had the highest regard for the craft. I've always felt it was work.

V.S. Naipaul

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Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not in the known form of the primary 'real' world.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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I dislike Allegory - the conscious and intentional allegory - yet any attempt to explain the purport of myth or fairytale must use allegorical language.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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They say it is the first step that costs the effort. I do not find it so. I am sure I could write unlimited 'first chapters'. I have indeed written many.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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J. D. Salinger

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An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.

J. D. Salinger

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The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.

J. D. Salinger

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I don't necessarily intend to publish posthumously, but I do like to write for myself.

J. D. Salinger

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Let's not forget, art can sell. You ain't gotta front all the time on your records.

Nas

Art Forget Front Gotta

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From even the greatest of horrors, irony is seldom absent.

H. P. Lovecraft

Absent Even Greatest Horrors

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All of my tales are based on the fundamental premise that common human laws and emotions have no validity or significance in the cosmos-at-large.

H. P. Lovecraft

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I am well-nigh resolv'd to write no more tales but merely to dream when I have a mind to, not stopping to do anything so vulgar as to set down the dream for a boarish Publick.

H. P. Lovecraft

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I have concluded that Literature is no proper pursuit for a gentleman and that Writing ought never to be consider'd but as an elegant Accomplishment to be indulg'd in with infrequency and Discrimination.

H. P. Lovecraft

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I love the art world, I love art galleries, I love what it means - I love art.

Nas

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With the acting, it's somebody else's brainchild, and I'm just sort of helping flesh it out. There's a special satisfaction to being the brains behind the operation.

Jack Black

Let's face it, the great comedians now that are handicapped in the looks department are tremendous writers.

Jack Black

Jackie Chan

Marilyn Monroe

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.

William Faulkner

The genuine artist is never 'true to life.' He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not go storming through life like actors in a play. Art is never real life.

Wallace Stevens

From time immemorial artistic insights have been revealed to artists in their sleep and in dreams, so that at all times they ardently desired them.

Paracelsus

The interpretation of dreams is a great art.

Paracelsus

Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency to get the book written.

William Faulkner

Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow.

Paracelsus

There is only one school of literature - that of talent.

Vladimir Nabokov

A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.

Vladimir Nabokov

I like light, color, luminosity. I like things full of color and vibrant.

Oscar de la Renta

When you are learning about a martial art, it is about respect.

Jackie Chan

Adrienne Rich

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

Oscar Wilde

Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force.

Oscar Wilde

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

Oscar Wilde

Stadium rock and commercial rock are the opposite of what poetry needs. An audience of around 200 is ideal for poetry.

Adrian Mitchell

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.

George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw

College isn't the place to go for ideas.

Helen Keller

The art and passion of reading well and deeply is waning, but [Jane] Austen still inspires people to become fanatical readers.

Harold Bloom

Reading well is one of the greatest pleasures that solitude can afford you.

Harold Bloom

The work of great poetry is to aid us to become free artists ourselves...The art of reading poetry is an authentic training in the augmentation of consciousness, perhaps the most authentic of healthy modes.

Harold Bloom

How can you be an artist and not reflect the times?

Nina Simone

Indeed the three prophecies about the death of individual art are, in their different ways, those of Hegel, Marx, and Freud. I don't see any way of getting beyond those prophecies.

Harold Bloom

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

George Bernard Shaw

The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable.

Nadine Gordimer

I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.

Jackie Collins

I really fall in love with my characters, even the bad ones. I love getting together with them. They tell me what to do; they take me on a wild and wonderful trip.

Jackie Collins

For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I don't see myself in terms of artifice. I see myself as a real person who chooses to live my life in an open way - artistically.

Lady Gaga

I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.

Lady Gaga

Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Great writing can be done in biography, history, art.

V.S. Naipaul

I really wasn't equipped to be a writer when I left Oxford. But then I set out to learn. I've always had the highest regard for the craft. I've always felt it was work.

V.S. Naipaul

Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not in the known form of the primary 'real' world.

J. R. R. Tolkien

I dislike Allegory - the conscious and intentional allegory - yet any attempt to explain the purport of myth or fairytale must use allegorical language.

J. R. R. Tolkien

They say it is the first step that costs the effort. I do not find it so. I am sure I could write unlimited 'first chapters'. I have indeed written many.