"I just like art. I get pure pleasure from it. I have a lot of wonderful paintings, and every time I look at them I see something different."
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"It [TV] is the cancer of film. It's why people can't be educated to film. In the late '60s, we expected to see a movie or two every week and be stimulated, excited and inspired. And we did. Every week after week. Antonioni, Goddard, Truffaut - this endless list of people. And then comes television and home video. I know how to work exactly for the big screen, but it doesn't matter what I think about the art of movie-making versus TV."
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"There in the midst of the Amazon Jungle, Simon Haskell has cobbled up for himself a replica of an Art Deco salon."
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"No age can have everthing and in material ways ours is more fortunate than any preceding one. Our ancestors appear to have mastered the art of living better than we are able to when an easy conscience, largely due to the unshaken faith of the time, left a marging of spiritual energy with which to enjoy life."
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"Alas! in nature, as in art, we gain only according to our capacity. You cannot put an ocean in a pint pot."
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"Where does contagion end and art begin?"
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"I don't think it would be fun to write after inhaling art fumes. (What are art fumes?) No, I just make stuff up. It's easier that way."
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"They were kissing. Put like that, and you could be forgiven for presuming that this was a normal kiss, all lips and skin and possibly even a little tongue. You'd miss how he smiled, how his eyes glowed. And then, after the kiss was done, how he stood, like a man who had just discovered the art of standing and had figured out how to do it better than anyone else who would ever come along."
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"When things get tough... Make good art."
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"Sometimes life is hard. Things go wrong—in life and in love and in business and in friendship and in health and in all the other ways that life can go wrong. And when things get tough, this is what you should do: make good art. . . . Someone on the internet thinks what you’re doing is stupid or evil or it’s all been done before: make good art. Probably things will work out somehow, eventually time will take the sting away, and it doesn’t even matter. Do what only you can do best: make good art."
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"With ticket prices, do you ask yourself, why I'm paying $70 to see the arts? You say, "No, that's what the symphony is costing me.""
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"Doing fine, thank you, I would say, never knowing how to talk about what I do. If I could talk about it, I would not have to do it. I make art, sometimes I make true art, and sometimes it fills the empty places in my heart. Some of them. Not all."
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"When you start out on a career in the arts you have no idea what you are doing. This is great. People who know what they are doing know the rules, and know what is possible and impossible. You do not. And you should not. The rules on what is possible and impossible in the arts were made by people who had not tested the bounds of the possible by going beyond them. And you can. If you don't know it's impossible it's easier to do. And because nobody's done it before, they haven't made up rules to stop anyone doing that again, yet."
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"I am fascinated a) by transgressive art and b) what happens beyond the boundaries."
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"There's not much high and low culture any more: there's just mingling streams of art and what matters is whether it's good art or bad art."
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"There may be a parallel between woodcuts and radio; radio plays are a living art form everywhere except the USA."
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"Social media and young people, art, music, all communications make this one of the most active times for activism. It will be a time of change."
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"Only through art can we get outside of ourselves and know another's view of the universe which is not the same as ours and see landscapes which otherwise would remain unknown to us like the landscapes of the moon. Thanks to art, instead of seeing a single world, our own, we see it multiply until we have before us as many worlds as there are original artists."
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"I believe that all true art is classic, but the dictates of the mind rarely permit of its being recognized as such when it first appears."
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"The particulars of life do not matter to the artist; they merely provide him with the opportunity to lay bare his genius."
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