"I think, for the most part, our culture……" — Chris Van Allsburg
"I think, for the most part, our culture embraces that artists are born, not made."
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38 Quotes by Chris Van Allsburg
Chris Van Allsburg has 38 quotes on this site.
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As much as I'd like to meet the tooth fairy on an evening walk, I don't really believe it can…
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Santa is our culture's only mythic figure truly believed in by a large percentage of the population. It's a fact…
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The Dick, Jane, and Spot primers have gone to that bookshelf in the sky. I have, in some ways, a…
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There was a great deal of peer recognition to be gained in elementary school by being able to draw well.…
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I pore over every word on the cereal box at breakfast, often more than once. You can ask me anything…
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I write for what's left of the eight-year-old still rattling around inside my head
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The Polar Express was the easiest of my picture book manuscripts to write... Once I realized the train was going…
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The idea of the extraordinary happening in the context of the ordinary is what's fascinating to me
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Some artists claim praise is irrelevant in measuring the success of art, but I think it's quite relevant. Besides, it…
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There must be something to think about at the end.
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Certain peer pressures encourage little fingers to learn how to hold a football instead of a crayon. I confess to…
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The opportunity to create a small world between two pieces of cardboard, where time exists yet stands still, where people…
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More Artists Quotes
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one of 2,212 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint…
— Erykah Badu
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A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious…
— HonorÈ De Balzac
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We artists love to talk tough, but we're just as sentimental as everyone else when it comes down to it.
— John Banville
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The show business has all phases and grades of dignity, from the exhibition of a monkey to the exposition of…
— P T Barnum
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Competitions are for horses, not artists.
— Bela Bartok
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Creative Artists Agency put together a project of extraordinary mediocrity and colossal stupidity. Otherwise, it was great.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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Ever since the Greek tragedies, artists have, from time to time, asked themselves how they might influence ongoing political events.
— John Berger
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The way I write my songs is that I have to believe what I'm writing about, and that's why they…
— Adele
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To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and…
— Arnold Bennett
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I have a vision of artists putting into film, drama, literature, music, and paintings great themes and great characters from…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Technology is huge; I wanted to learn about it. People might say that's odd, but I think it's odd if…
— Bono
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The great music for so many artists - the Beatles, the Rolling Stones - was always at the moment when…
— Bono
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