"I think it's pretentious to create art just for the sake of stroking the artists ego."
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"I think it's pretentious to create art just for the sake of stroking the artists ego."
"I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind."
"I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences."
"I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it."
"Artists today think of everything they do as a work of art. It is important to forget about what you are doing - then a work of art may happen."
"The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly."
"Actually I think Art lies in both directions - the broad strokes, big picture but on the other hand the minute examination of the apparently mundane. Seeing the whole world in a grain of sand, that kind of thing."
"As humans we look at things and think about what we've looked at. We treasure it in a kind of private art gallery."
"I think art is inherently nonviolent and it actually occupies your mind with creation rather than destruction."
"Back in third grade, they used to say, 'Take whatever talent you have and think of something you can do with it.' I liked to draw, but what could I do with it? Maybe I could be an art dealer - nah, can't see myself doing that. Maybe I could do commercial arts?"
"I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I'm trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level."
"The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art."
"I don't think about art when I'm working. I try to think about life."
"I think of myself as a little kid, and I had a wild imagination, but it was something that was encouraged and supported, which helped steer me into the arts."
"To me, stretching the capabilities of my imagination is a crucial aspect of writing fiction; you could think of it as a mental form of athleticism."
"My books are elegiac in the sense that they're odes to a nation that even I sometimes think may not exist anymore except in my memory and my imagination."
"Toy Soldiers was my introduction to film. I certainly didn't think I was doing art by any stretch of the imagination."
"I think most of the time you can make something happen, and it's about not letting your imagination be limited by that."
"I think what's really the most ideal thing is for the player themselves, within their own imagination, to carve out what they view as being the essence of the character."
"I guess I'm a very keen observer, and I'd like to think I have a good imagination."
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