"The purpose of art is higher than art.……" — Alonzo King
"The purpose of art is higher than art. What we are really interested in are masterpieces of humanity."
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12 Quotes by Alonzo King
Alonzo King has 12 quotes on this site.
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The artistic path is a fearless occupation.
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To change the world, you must first change yourself. And baby, that's hard enough.
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The world loves a clone and a good knock-off. It cheats the artist... In the obsession for technical wizardry, people…
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The deep art... That's the part that has to be guarded like a miser would his money... Like a dope…
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Be IN it. Get drunk in the moment.
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My intention was to grapple with the metaphysical meaning behind Scheherazade and present that meaning in its essence. Scheherazade is…
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What’s interesting about you is you.
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Everything in the phenomenal universe is straight line and circle. The horizon, our heads, arms, electrons, the oceans, planets and…
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Dance training can't be separate from life training. Everything that comes into our lives is training. The qualities we admire…
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Art is a form of intelligence, it can be developed, it's linked to intuition and it's something that all humans…
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Fear, safety, and conformity make you mediocre and average
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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,…
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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…
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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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