"Toy Soldiers was my introduction to film. I certainly didn't think I was doing art by any stretch of the imagination."
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"Wearing hats has become like fine art for me."
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"We are actually starting to manipulate our bodies, because we can, into a shape. We are becoming our own art. But what happens for me is that it desexualizes everything. You know, you start to look more and more polished, more and more lacquered and you look like a beautiful car. Does anyone want to sleep with you? Does anyone want to touch you? Does anyone want to kiss you? Maybe not, because you're too scary."
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"Artists, like yourself, are born with a need to express that's just innate."
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"A mockingbird... was heard to blend the songs of 32 different kinds of birds into a 10 minute performance, a virtuoso display that served no practical purpose, falling, therefore, into the realm of pure art."
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"Time passed. Art came off the walls and became rituals. Ritual became religion. Religion spawned science. Science led to big business. And big business, if it continues on its present, mindless trajectory, could land those lucky enough to survive its ultimate legacy back into caves again."
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"All art is a form of hacking, it's a kind of breeching open of a closed system."
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"There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing."
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"You need intelligence, and you need to look. You need a gaze, a wide gaze, penetrating and roving - thats what's useful for art."
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"The Art of Fulfillment is the ability to experience not only the thrill of the chase, but also the magic of the moment, the unbridled joy of feeling truly alive."
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"I went to art school, but I didn't last because in those days you couldn't take comics as a course. And they weren't even teaching you to draw real things, they were really into abstracts, and I was not into abstracts, so art school and I did not work out."
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"That's not writing, that's typing"
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"In my brain all I think about is fame."
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"That your own interpretation of a work of art is flagrantly subjective seems to be regarded as an arrogant attitude. But the truer view is that the interpretative artist can only make his own comment upon the work."
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"Even if 80 percent of the population of a country are Christian believers, they will have almost no cultural influence if the Christians do not live in cultural centers and work in culture-forging fields such as academia, publishing, media, entertainment, and the arts. The assumption that society will improve simply be more Christian believers being present is no longer valid."
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"Poetry is language in orbit."
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"Most of the time he [Marlon Brando] sounds like he has a mouth full of toilet paper."
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"The death of every art form seems imminent at least once in every century; but while the very funeral arrangements go forward, some child is born who is Michelangelo, Picasso, Yeats."
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"I spend my time trying to figure art out. I was brought up to believe that the way one processes information is by making it into art. That's how I live my life."
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"Making films is great. You've got 100 people around and you're all dressing up and making weird art - it's a fun group activity."
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