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We can have our own choices in sex partners, but you cannot avoid birth and death. It's the content of all religion… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
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These artists all have some kind of message to the public. These messages can be quite personal, maybe about their own existential… — Gunnar Kvaran Copy Share Image
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When I first started doing these roasts in the mid '90s, they were a lost art, like jousting or calligraphy. But I… — Jeff Ross Copy Share Image
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If you want to live your life in a creative way, as an artist, you have to not look back too much.… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
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The diseased pride [of artistic individualists] was not even conscious of a public interest, and would have found all political terms utterly… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
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Those of us who have tested gravity under a hoop know its mystical properties. Robin Layton, as I would have expected, has… — George Vecsey Copy Share Image
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Gather knowledge about the craft of writing. Immerse yourself in the art of it. Then write. Write yourself silly. Write yourself mad.… — Elizabeth George Copy Share Image
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It's impossible to say that live art enjoys any single status in the information age--there are versions of live art that are… — Philip Auslander Copy Share Image
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Always make your work be personal. And, you never have to lie... There is something we know that's connected with beauty and… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
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Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient. To act is easy, to think is hard; to act according to our… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
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