"In learning the art of storytelling by animation, I have discovered that language has an anatomy."
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"There is no such thing as talent. What they call talent is nothing but the capacity for doing continuous work in the right way."
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"As an artist, i feel lucky to have been given the gift of creativity so that i may share my vision of a better world. I will never forget what it was like to be poor and that is why it is so important to me that my work be accessible to all people. For me, art can reflect the celebration of the simple and good things in life. This is the most important to me."
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"Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night."
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"An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so must be willing to accept all the experiences life has to offer. In fact, he must seek out more of life than life puts at his feet. In the short span of his lifetime, an actor must learn all there is to know, experience all there is to experience, or approach that state as closely as possible. He must be superhuman in his efforts to store away in the core of his subconscious everything that he might be called upon to use in the expression of his art."
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"Anyone can take pictures. What's difficult is thinking about them, organizing them, and trying to use them in some way so that some meaning can be constructed out of them. That's really where the work of the artist begins."
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"Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art."
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"The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows it to realize its supreme purpose through him."
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"Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes."
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"As a Black woman filmmaker I feel that’s my job: visibility. And my preference within that job is Black subjectivity. Meaning I’m interested in the lives of Black folk as the subject. Not the predicate, not the tangent.[These stories] deserve to be told. Not as sociology, not as spectacle, not as a singular event that happens every so often, but regularly and purposefully as truth and as art on an ongoing basis, as do the stories of all the women you love."
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"An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why."
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"The making of art is no different than prayer."
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"Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious."
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"The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing."
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"Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words."
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"Just as Darwin discovered the law of evolution in organic nature, so Marx discovered the law of evolution in human history; he discovered the simple fact, hitherto concealed by an overgrowth of idealogy [sic], that mankind must first of all eat and drink, have shelter and clothing, before it can pursue politics, science, religion, art etc."
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"A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul."
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"The arts and humanities define who we are as a people. That is their power -- to remind us of what we each have to offer, and what we all have in common. To help us understand our history and imagine our future. To give us hope in the moments of struggle and to bring us together when nothing else will."
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"Bad artists copy. Good artists steal."
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"Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us, and chucks us aside. Alas!"
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