"I have no ethics when it comes to……" — James Mercer
"I have no ethics when it comes to art. You just do what you can to make it as beautiful as you can."
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22 Quotes by James Mercer
James Mercer has 22 quotes on this site.
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The thing that inspires me most is empathizing with people's flaws and seeing how they deal with them. That sort…
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I do like talking with friends about big concepts, you know, the stuff that will ruin a party. To me,…
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There's no real reason for me to be so obsessed with trying to understand the true nature of things. You…
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I was really shy as a kid.
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I kinda learned to sing singing to Echo and the Bunnymen songs and Smiths songs: Morrissey would be a big…
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Honestly, humans are social creatures that really crave intimacy, and I think that the friends I have who are trying…
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My dad was a Navy munitions officer, and by the end of his career, he was a specialist in nuclear…
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I tend to write a pretty half and half split of, like, slow, morose things and then sort of more…
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I sit and write songs alone and then get together with people to help me flesh it out into a…
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Collaboration is something I missed at one point in The Shins. I really wanted to have that experience again, you…
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So happy that Broken Bells is a thing in my life and really cool in so many ways. Not only,…
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When I started The Shins, it really was just me, alone, but it was still The Shins. I was totally…
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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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