New Work Quotes

• To understand what I am saying, you have to believe that dance is something other than technique. We forget where the movements come from. They are born from life. When you create a new work, the point of departure must be contemporary life -- not existing forms of dance.

  Pina Bausch

  Believe, Dancing, Technique

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• If each Monday morning, you make a choice to move into the new work week with renewed commitment and passion, you can change all areas of your life. You can truly change your Mondays and change your life.

  David Cottrell

  Monday, Morning, Moving

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• Well, coming at a new work requires a certain amount of patience and energy, and there’s always the risk of disappointment. You can’t really blame people for preferring more of what they already know and like. The trade-off, of course, is that predictability is boring. Repetition is the death of magic.

  Bill Watterson

  Disappointment, People, Risk

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• I will ignore all ideas for new works and engines of war, the invention of which has reached its limits and for whose improvement I see no further hope.

  Frontinus

  War, Ideas, Air Power

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• I am so envious of my colleagues from 100 years ago who only sang new works, they hardly ever sang revivals.

  Renee Fleming

  Years, Envious, Revival

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• Joanna Priestley’s amazing body of animated films have deservedly earned their place in the pantheon of contemporary international animators. Inventively visioned, superbly crafted, and rich with insight into the physical and spiritual dilemmas that confront us all, each new work provides an unexpected pleasure.

  Bill Foster

  Spiritual, Body, Unexpected

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• No single achievement in science is possible without the painstaking work of the many hundreds who have built the foundation on which all new work is based.

  Polykarp Kusch

  Achievement, Foundation, Built

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• The brain is full of lonely ideas, begging you to make some sense of them, to recognize them as interesting. The lazy brain just files them away in old pigeonholes, like a bureaucrat who wants an easy life. The lively brain picks and chooses and creates new works of art out of ideas.

  Theodore Zeldin

  Lonely, Art, Begging You

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• I still do not know where the notes will come from when I accept a commission for a new work.

  Lukas Foss

  Accepting, Notes, Stills

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• There's a need to keep the history of an artform going, parallel with the new work that's being done.

  Hal Price

  Needs, Done, Never Quit

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• And currently, there are four to five new works in the pipeline for upcoming celebrations such as the Sydney 2000 Olympics, Australian Federation, my 50th Birthday, and Sydney Dance Company's 25th Anniversary.

  Graeme Murphy

  Anniversary, Australia Day, 50th Birthday

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• No engineer can go upon a new work and not find something peculiar, that will demand his careful reflection, and the deliberate consideration of any advice that he may receive; and nothing so fully reveals his incapacity as a pretentious assumption of knowledge, claiming to understand everything.

  John B. Jervis

  Hard Work, Knowledge, Science

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• What's missing in the musical theater is producers willing to nurture new work, raise the money and put it on.

  Harold Prince

  Missing, Musical, Theater

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• The fact is that people are attracted to new work and by new work.

  Tom Stoppard

  People, Facts

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• I'm convinced true fulfillment is living in God's world one day at a time, savoring it, leaving today's disapointments behind and borrowing no troubles from tomorrow. It's done not only by accepting life, fever, and things that go bump in the night, but also by cultivating love and new and old friendships, and especially by finding a new work or project that makes it exciting just to get up in the morning.

  Olive Ann Burns

  Morning, Night, Leaving

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• I come home that morning, after I been fired, and stood outside my house with my new work shoes on. The shoes my mama paid a month's worth a light bill for. I guess that's when I understood what shame was and the color of it too. Shame ain't black, like dirt, like I always thought it was. Shame be the color of a new white uniform your mother ironed all night to pay for, white without a smudge or a speck a work-dirt on it.

  Kathryn Stockett

  Mother, Morning, Home

  Kathryn Stockett (2009). “The Help”, p.162, Penguin

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• As the new work fills my notebooks, I've come to realize that the characters in my stories were so real because I really did want to get close to people, I really did want to know them. It was just easier to do it on paper, one step removed.

  Charles de Lint

  Notebook, Real, Character

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• We are continuously challenged to discover new works of culture—and, in the process, we don’t allow any one of them to assume a weight in our minds.

  Alain de Botton

  Mind, Culture, Weight

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• The more a man lives, the more a man creates, the more a man loves and loses those whom he loves, the more does he escape from death. With every new blow that we have to bear, with every new work that we round and finish, we escape from ourselves, we escape into the work we have created, the soul we have loved, the soul that has left us.

  Romain Rolland

  Lying, Men, Rome

  "John Christopher: Journey's end".

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• Remind yourself of the value of detaching from work that's out of your hands and committing to new work that wants to be born.

  Eric Maisel

  Hands, Progress, Want

  Eric Maisel (2000). “The Creativity Book: A Year's Worth of Inspiration and Guidance”, p.237, Penguin

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• Every artist knows that there is no such thing as "freedom" in art. The first thing an artist does when he begins a new work is to lay down the barriers and limitations; he decides upon a certain composition, a certain key, a certain relation of creatures or objects to each other. He is never free, and the more splendid his imagination, the more intense his feeling, the farther he goes from general truth and general emotion.

  Willa Cather

  Art, Keys, Decide Upon

  Willa Cather (1988). “Willa Cather on Writing: Critical Studies on Writing as an Art”, p.123, U of Nebraska Press

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• Merz art strives for immediate expression by shortening the path from intuition to visual manifestation of the artwork... they will receive my new work als they always have when something new presents itself: with indignation and screams of scorn.

  Kurt Schwitters

  Art, Expression, Intuition

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• My new work deals with emptying my body: 'Boat emptying, stream entering.' This means that you have to empty the body/boat to the point where you can really be connected with the fields of energy around you. I think that men and women in our Western culture are completely disconnected from that energy, and in my new work I want to make this connection possible.

  Marina Abramovic

  Mean, Men, Thinking

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• Sometimes we forget that if we do not encourage new work now, we will lose all touch with the work of the past we claim to love. If art is not living in a continuous present, it is living in a museum, only those working now can complete the circuit between the past, present and future energies we call art.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Art, Past, Museums

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• I look at the character of the exhibition and I treat it as I would a painting or an installation. When I did the Summer Exhibition at Royal Academy, I did it exactly as I would when making a new work.

  Michael Craig-Martin

  Summer, Character, Exhibitions

  Source: www.artzip.org

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