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"For me, I think [art] exists in a cave. I am in a cave. I have my own editing place, but I'm not powerful enough to amass the resources to keep doing movies every two or three years."
"Success is really when you create a space, a piece of art, and people come in and say, that's my story - when they claim it."
"When Vanity kissed Vanity, a hundred happy Junes ago, he pondered o'er her breathlessly, and, that all men might ever know, he rhymed her eyes with life and death: "Thru Time I'll save my love!" he said. . . yet Beauty vanished with his breath, and, with her lovers, she was dead. . . -Ever his wit and not her eyes, ever his art and not her hair: "Who'd learn a trick in rhyme, be wise and pause before his sonnet there". . . So all my words, however true, might sing you to a thousandth June, and no one ever know that you were Beauty for an afternoon."
"To most women art is a form of scandal."
"the one universal form of art is music."
"There's a lot of stuff that I've been through in my life in the past couple of months that I don't really want to share with people who are close to me, but I have no option if it's my art."
"Winner gave me my bread and Russell gave me my art."
"I see films in theaters, and I enjoy films. I enjoy the art of storytelling, and the different ways to tell them."
"Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll! Leave thy low-vaulted past! Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till thou at length art free, Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea!"
"Fear of carbs, of gluten, of everything - we've distanced ourselves from the beauty of food, the art of it. It makes me sad when people say, 'Oh, I don't eat gluten. I don't eat cheese. I don't eat this. So I eat cardboard.'"
"My parents taught me everything and set me up for life. I owe to them all the things I'm passionate about: music, art, the people I love, my career and family life, the fact that I have children and the way that I raise them."
"The great art of governing consists in not letting men grow old in their jobs."
"War is not at all such a difficult art as people think. . . . In reality it would seem that he is vanquished who is afraid of his adversary and the the whole secret lies in that."
"The art of land warfare is an art of genius, of inspiration. On the sea nothing is genius or inspiration; everything is positive or empiric."
"Do I have to change my name, will it get me far? Should I lose some weight, am I gonna be a star?"
"Don’t just stand there, let’s get to it, Strike a pose, there’s nothing to it..."
"You took a pretty picture and you smashed it into bits, sank me into blackness and you sealed it with a kiss."
"I don't want no lies, I don't watch TV. I don't waste my time, won't read a magazine."
"Rita Haywood gave good face."
"I used to believe in the pretty pictures that were all around me, but now I know for sure that I was stupid."
