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“If you take 2001: A Space Odyssey as an example of somebody who creates a new language in film by what he was able to accomplish with art direction, photography, lighting, etc., it is still a gold standard for science fiction.”

“I know that one of the distinguishing things was I looked like I could hold a gun, even though I'd never held one before and I'm physically able to do the martial arts and all that stuff.”

Knows Art Able Stuff Gun Martial Arts

Author:Yvonne Strahovski

“What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!”

Thinking Art Able Earth Literature Heaven Chance Stupid Skills Art Is Atheist Foolish Fabric Heaven And Earth Oysters

Author:Anatole France

“I'd have been a filmmaker or a cartoonist or something else which extended from the visual arts into the making of narratives if I hadn't been able to shift into fiction.”

Ifs Has Beens Art Able Fiction Narrative Filmmaker Visuals Cartoonist Visual Art

Author:Jonathan Lethem

“If there is one thing I long for above all else, it's that the years to come may see Christianity in this country able again to capture the imagination of our culture.”

Ifs Years May Long Art Country Able Culture Imagination Christianity One Thing Capture

Author:Rowan Williams

“Comedians don't have a monopoly on suffering. But creative people are sometimes fortunate enough to be able to incorporate their most traumatic experiences into their art.”

People Art Sometimes Enough Able Suffering Creative Comedian Fortunate Monopoly Creative People Traumatic Experiences

Author:Matt Lucas

“Slowly blossomed, slowly ripened in Siddhartha the realisation, the knowledge, what wisdom actually was, what the goal of his long search was. It was nothing but a readiness of the soul, an ability, a secret art, to think every moment, while living his life, the thought of oneness, to be able to feel and inhale the oneness.”

Thinking Feels Long Art Soul Moments Able Goal Ability Secret Oneness Readiness Realisation Inhale Siddhartha

Book:Siddhartha

Source: Siddhartha

“I'd like for people to be able to go to the universities and get a degree in fine arts-gastronomy.”

People Art Able Fine Degrees University Fine Arts

Author:Julia Child

“We must be able to let things happen in the psyche. For us, this becomes a real art... Consciousness is forever interfering, helping, correcting, and negating, never leaving the single growth of the psychic processes in peace.”

Art Real Helping Happens Able Process Growth Imagination Consciousness Forever Leaving Things Happen Interfere Psychics Correcting

Author:Carl Jung

“You don't have to be Michelangelo to teach basic art, just as you don't have to be Shakespeare to be able to teach the correct use of language.”

Art Use Able Language Teach Teaching Use Of Language

Book:Triskell Tales: Twenty-two Years of Chapbooks

Source: Triskell Tales: Twenty-two Years of Chapbooks

“The creditors are proving impossible to deal with and short of a sudden appearance on the scene of wealthy art patrons, we are going to be turned out of this dear little house where I led a simple life and was able to work so well. I do not know what will become of us.”

Knows Wells Littles Art Able House Simple Deals Impossible Scene Prove Dear Appearance Insecurity Wealthy Simple Life Patron Creditors

Book:Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

Source: Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

“To be able to translate the customs, ideas and appearance of my times as I see them - in a word, to create a living art - this has been my aim.”

Has Beens Art Ideas Able Culture Aim Appearance My Time Customs Translate

Author:Gustave Courbet

“Art and music shine a light of meaning on ordinary life, and through them we are able to confront the things that trouble us and to find consolation and peace in their presence.”

Art Light Able Trouble Ordinary Shining Consolation Ordinary Life Art And Music

Author:Roger Scruton

“With the most primitive means the artist creates something which the most ingenious and efficient technology will never be able to create.”

Mean Art Able Artist Creativity Technology Creating Painter Efficient Primitive Ingenious Famous Artist Creating New Things

Author:Kazimir Malevich

“No high-minded painter of the last fifty years has been able to come to terms with his art without coming to terms with the problem of cubism.”

Years Has Beens Art Problem Able Lasts Term Painter Fifty Cubism

Author:Walter Darby Bannard

“The reason that Apple is able to create products like iPad is because we always try to be at the intersection of technology and liberal arts, to be able to get the best of both.”

Trying Art Reason Able Technology Products Apples Ipads Intersections Liberal Arts

Author:Steve Jobs

“Dinosaurs were huge and powerful; they could not adapt and they died out. And so the big difference between dinosaurs and cockroaches is adaptability: one is able to adjust, while the other, apparently, couldn't... The same analogy applies to fighting, and probably any other sport. It's not always the strong that survive. It takes brains, guts, tolerance and forward thinking. We've seen this since the beginning of mixed martial arts.”

“Every person is able to add beauty, whether by growing flowers, or singing, or cooking luscious meals, or raising sweet pets. Every part of life can be art.”

Persons Art Able Beauty Growing Sweet Flower Singing Art Is Cooking Add Meals Pet Parts Of Life

Author:Cynthia Rylant

“Five hundred years before Christ some physicians of ancient India, working under the influence of the Lord Buddha, advanced the art of healing to so perfect a state that they were able to abolish surgery, although the surgery of their time was as efficient, or more so, than that of the present day.”

Years Art States Able Christ Perfect Healing Lord Five Influence Hundred India Ancient Efficient Physicians Surgery Abolish Present Day Ancient India Lord Buddha

Book:The Bach Flower Remedies

Source: The Bach Flower Remedies

“I like to be aware of a book as a piece of writing, and aware of its structure as a product of mind, and yet I want to be able to see the represented world through it. I admire artists who succeed in dividing my attention more or less evenly between the world of their books and the art of their books . . . so that a reader may study the work with pleasure as well as the world that it describes.”

World Want Writing Mind Wells May Art Book Able Artist Pleasure Attention Study Pieces Products Reader Succeed Structure Admire Dividing

Author:Annie Dillard

“Art furnishes us with eyes and hands and above all the good conscience to be able to turn ourselves into such a phenomenon.”

Art Hands Eye Able Turns Conscience Phenomenon

Book:The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

Source: The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

“When thou art offended at any man's fault, forthwith turn to thyself and reflect in what manner thou doest error thyself. For by attending to this thou wilt quickly forget thy anger, if this consideration is also added, that the man is compelled; for what else could he do? or, if thou art able, take away from him the compulsion.”

Ifs Men Art Able Turns Forget He Man Errors Faults Consideration Compelled Offended Thyself Compulsion Attending

Author:Marcus Aurelius

“The great artist when he comes, uses everything that has been discovered or known about his art up to that point, being able to accept or reject in a time so short it seems that the knowledge was born with him, rather than that he takes instantly what it takes the ordinary man a lifetime to know, and then the great artist goes beyond what has been done or known and makes something of his own.”

Knows Men Has Beens Art Done Use Seems Able Artist Born Known Accepting Ordinary Lifetime Rejects Afternoon Now And Then Great Art Great Artist Ordinary Man

Book:The Hemingway Collection

Source: The Hemingway Collection

“Art as a fantasy has been one of my earliest experiences. I suppose a lot of my childhood was a fantasy that involved getting away from things I didn't like. Fortunately it had some relationship to reality so that later I was able to, to some extent, act as I imagined I might.”

Has Beens Art Reality Might Able Fantasy Childhood Involved Get Away

Author:Jasper Johns

“One of the distinguishing characteristics of the true work of art is that it is able to both contain and express different meanings - meanings which may in fact contradict each other.”

May Art Different Facts Able Art Is Characteristics Works Of Art Different Meanings

Book:Art in the seventies

Source: Art in the seventies

“Suffering for your art is most definitely overrated but I do get a certain, I don't know, satisfaction from being able to deal with my paranoia and insecurity.”

Knows Art Able Certain Suffering Deals Art Is Satisfaction Insecurity Paranoia Overrated

Author:Beth Gibbons

“If men were able to be convinced that art is a precise advance knowledge of how to cope with the psychic and social consequences of the next technology, would they all become artist? Or would they begin a careful translation of new art forms into social navigation charts? I am curious to know what would happem if art were suddenly seen for what it is, namely, exact information of how to rearrange one's psyche in order to anticipate the next blow from our own extended faculties.”

Source: Understanding media: the extensions of man

“Marvin Gaye said there's a song inside of me and I can't get it out. And I know it's in there, and I can feel that it's in there, and I can't get it out. There's so much that I want to say, and I haven't been able to figure out how to say it in my art. I can only say it in ham-fisted, clumsy, nonpoetic ways, and I'm trying to figure out how to talk about life and talk about love and talk about pain and trials and tribulation in an artistic form.”

Knows Way Want Feels Trying Art Said I Can Able Pain Form Song Havens Figures Trials Artistic Tribulation Clumsy Ham Trials And Tribulations Marvin

Author:Will Smith

“Being able to tell one from start to finish, and making that puzzle come together at the end. That's the art for me.”

Art Ends Able Together Puzzles

Author:Kendrick Lamar

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