Important Quotes - Page 36

• Sometimes, you really don't understand why something is important to you until you get halfway through the movie - or maybe even all the way through.

  Jodie Foster

  Way, Sometimes, Halfway

  "Jennifer Lawrence". Interview with Jodie Foster, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 12, 2010.

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• Even as a stage performer, I have my garb which is leather jackets and black jeans to make me feel a certain way. The wardrobe is really important to feeling the character you're playing.

  Andrew Dice Clay

  Character, Leather Jackets, Jeans

  Source: collider.com

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• I know certain roles are important to me. I know that I really want to play them. I know I can do a good job. But I can never put into words why.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Jobs, Play, Roles

  Interview with Jodie Foster, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 12, 2010.

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• Journal what you love, what you hate, what's in your head, what's important. Journaling organizes your thoughts; allows you to see things in a concrete way that otherwise you might not see. Focus on what you think you need to find in your art.

  Kay WalkingStick

  Art, Hate, Thinking

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• Most important... develop your technical ability. You are handicapped if you do not develop well enough to hold the subconscious process so as not to have problems of inexperienced painters.

  Sergei Bongart

  Problem, Enough, Process

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• Art Education is as important for a realist artist as an Alphabet is to learn a language.

  Igor Babailov

  Art, Alphabet, Language

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• Our time and attention is scarce. Art is not that important to us, no matter what we might like to believe.

  Tyler Cowen

  Art, Believe, Might

  Tyler Cowen (2008). “Discover Your Inner Economist: Use Incentives to Fall in Love, Survive Your Next Meeting, and Motivate Your Den tist”, p.41, Penguin

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• Be clear in your mind why learning to draw well is important. Drawing enables you to see in that special, epiphanous way that artists see, no matter what style you use to express your special insight. Your goal in drawing should be to encounter the reality of experience... to see ever more clearly, ever more deeply.

  Betty Edwards

  Artist, Reality, Drawing

  Betty Edwards (1999). “The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain”, Tarcher

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• The Arts' position in the school curriculum symbolizes to the young what adults believe is important.

  Elliot W. Eisner

  Education, Art, Believe

  "The Arts and the Creation of Mind". Book by Elliot W. Eisner, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2002.

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• An important question to ask is, 'Where and when did decoration and utility first meet?

  Edward J. Fraughton

  Firsts, Decoration, Utility

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• I don't see how you can create and not have the feeling that it is the most important, all-consuming thing.

  Grace Hartigan

  Feelings, Obsession, Consuming

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• When you draw a crowd of people in a street or room or landscape, decide whether you want to say that the people dominate the place or that the place is more important than the people.

  John French Sloan

  People, Crowds, Landscape

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• If you want to make something clear to someone, you mustn't forget the main point, the most important thing, and if you bring in something else as an illustration you mustn't wander off into endless irrelevancies.

  Anton Webern

  Illustration, Want, Forget

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• It's important to start off with ideals, even if they become modified at some later stage.

  Stuart Pearson Wright

  Stage, Idealism, Ifs

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• I love isolation. It's very important for me to have time and space to myself when I can sit and read or write as well as paint. It's all part of the process.

  Stuart Pearson Wright

  Writing, Love Is, Space

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• If paintings are so important - worth so much, reproduced, cherished, and visited so often - then isn't it troubling that we can hardly make emotional contact with the artists? Few centuries, it seems, are as determinedly tearless as ours.

  James Elkins

  Emotional, Artist, Painting

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• What kinds of problems, and what kinds of meanings, happen in the paint? Or as one historian puts it, 'What is thinking in painting, as opposed to thinking about painting?' These are important questions, and they are very hard to answer using the language of art history.

  James Elkins

  Art, Thinking, Answers

  James Elkins (2004). “What Painting Is”, p.3, Routledge

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• Frightening for many artists is promoting themselves. They feel it is... artificial and not what we want to be known for. Yet if we start thinking about what we do as important and important to offer to people, not to sell... it allows us to shift the way we think about promoting ourselves.

  Adam Leipzig

  Artist, Thinking, People

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• The important things usually prove to be very simple. They are also open secrets in the sense that no one is hiding the knowledge from us except ourselves.

  Robert Moss

  Simple, Secret, Hiding

  Robert Moss (2012). “Dreaming the Soul Back Home: Shamanic Dreaming for Healing and Becoming Whole”, p.13, New World Library

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• New research into cognitive functioning - how the brain works - proves that bullet points are the least effective way to deliver important information.

  Carmine Gallo

  Brain, Research, Bullets

  Carmine Gallo (2010). “The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs: How to Be Insanely Great in Front of Any Audience”, McGraw Hill Professional

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• I crave the freedom of knowing that if I want to do something, I can do it. It's important that I live in such a way that I can maintain a direct response to ideas.

  Errollyn Wallen

  Ideas, Knowing, Want

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• The problem with our art form: it's so ephemeral, and catching performances can be so difficult... the important thing is what happens at the moment of performance, for the people who made the effort to be there: it lives with them.

  Judith Weir

  Art, People, Effort

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• Just listening carefully to what the musicians are really doing, putting the music in the right time... I became aware of the degree to which time, and therefore duration, was important in music and in art. It had a direct influence on my painting.

  Guido Molinari

  Music, Art, Listening

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• You must make the main thing in your picture appear most important. If anyone tells me my hat is more important than my head - by God I'm taking off my hat.

  Harvey Dunn

  Hats, Importance, Ifs

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• Do not have an important dark and important light in the same picture they will destroy each other.

  Harvey Dunn

  Dark, Light

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