"Just once how I'd like to see the headline say, not much to print today, can't find anything bad to say."
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"I'm not really quiet or shy. Ask any of my friends! But I always ground my poetry in life itself. Poetry is an art of language, though, so I am always aware of every word's meaning, or multiple meanings."
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"All art is a vision penetrating the illusions of reality, and photography is one form of this vision and revelation."
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"Now there is a big turnover in the galleries. The top galleries are getting better all the time. A lot of galleries just struggle along, then a new one comes along. There are certainly a great number of galleries. I think this argues well for the art but there are, of course, a lot of "phonies" in all the arts."
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"There still is some opposition to it in some museums and art schools, but I think photography has really grown into a mature art form."
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"I've always thought photography was an art form, but it had very low appreciation in the beginning, except for some Europeans, and of course Stieglitz. Stieglitz always considered photography to be an art form and is the "father" of the creative concepts of the twentieth century."
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"I do not think there is any question of photography being an art form!"
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"In the ’70s it was skateboards, in the ’80s it was drugs, in the ’90s it was art, and now it’s my family."
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"Cooking is work that is traditionally done by working-class people. The work itself is not glamorous. It's repetitive, and it's a lot closer to factory work than art, whatever level you're doing it at. Certainly chefs are used to living like rock 'n' rollers to some extent, inasmuch as we get a lot of those fringe benefits without having to learn how to play guitar."
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"No individual is isolated. He who is sad, saddens others."
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"I did martial arts and karate for eight years when I was growing up."
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"I'd always wanted to tell people that when I work on my body I'm thinking about classical sculpture, so I jumped at the chance to show off body building as an art form."
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"On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number merely strange, but none commonplace; for, working as he did rather for the love of his art than for the acquirement of wealth, he refused to associate himself with any investigation which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic."
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"We tottered together upon the brink of the fall. I have some knowledge, however, of baritsu, or the Japanese system of wrestling, which has more than once been very useful to me. I slipped through his grip, and he with a horrible scream kicked madly for a few seconds and clawed the air with both his hands."
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"...a genuine work of art, can never be false, nor can it be discredited through the lapse of time, for it does not present an opinion but the thing itself."
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"The general history of art and literature shows that the highest achievements of the human mind are, as a rule, not favourably received at first."
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"We should comfort ourselves with the masterpieces of art as with exalted personages-stand quietly before them and wait till they speak to us."
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"I like doing things I haven't learnt about yet. I've always been interested in art, and I love doing art."
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"As much as I loved the art and discipline of the dance, it didn't love me!"
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"It sounds kind of flighty, filmmaker-y, but I believe films are a piece of art. They are meant to be what they're meant to be, and sometimes the artist is informed by the film of what it needs to be."
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