"Facts can be turned into art if one…" — Paul Simon
"Facts can be turned into art if one is artful enough."
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149 Quotes by Paul Simon
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I want to rid my heart of envy, and cleanse my soul of rage before I'm through.
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When I look back at all the crap I learned in high school, it's a wonder I can think at…
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Who's gonna love you when your looks are gone?
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...what threatens us today in the world of computers and other invasions of privacy is not a national ID card…
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It's outrageous to line your pockets off the misery of the poor; It's outrageous, the crimes some human beings must…
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The Wisdom is old, the Koran is old, the Bible is old. Disagreements? Work 'em out.
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Nor is it strange That after changes upon changes, we are more or less the same
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It's very helpful to start with something that's true. If you start with something that's false, you're always covering your…
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Much of songwriting is simply a mystery.
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I don't really know why an idea comes to me. But all of a sudden, an idea comes and from…
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Most of the time, the songs have jokes in them, little sarcastic things, or purposely kitsch or something. So that's…
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I really don't know what exactly all the songs mean. Sometimes other people have meanings and when I hear them…
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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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