"Artists are never complete people. But if it's……" — Alexander Theroux
"Artists are never complete people. But if it's art that completes them, then what is taken away?"
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Alexander Theroux
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21 Quotes by Alexander Theroux
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Where there is no style, there is in effect no point of view. There is, essentially, no anger, no conviction,…
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It's true, you can never eat a pet you name. And anyway, it would be like a ventriloquist eating his…
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Brent Berlin and Paul Kay in Basic Color Terms demonstrate exhaustively and empirically, the very simple thesis that anywhere in…
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Yellow is vagueness and luminousness, both.
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There is no loneliness like that of a failed marriage.
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Being natural is one of the most irritating poses I know in people.
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I thought... their elegance... lies not so much in their clothes as in their bodies, and their bodies have received…
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Why should a blacksmith put his hands in the fire if he has tongs?
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One's style holds one, thankfully, at bay from the enemies of it but not from the stupid crucifixions by those…
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Nothing is more subtly destructive than a closed circle of artists feeding on one another. Envy grows from insignificant differences…
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Nothing is quite as bad as being without privacy and lonely at the same time.
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A lover is never a completely self-reliant person viewing the world through his own eyes, but a hostage to a…
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More Art Quotes
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A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the…
— Pietro Aretino
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Let each man exercise the art he knows.
— Aristophanes
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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them…
— Aristotle
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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
— Aristotle
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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,…
— Aristotle
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It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
— Aristotle
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
— Aristotle
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I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in…
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex,…
— Karen Armstrong
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I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new…
— Darren Aronofsky
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I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your…
— Arthur Ashe
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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
— Isaac Asimov
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