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Arca Inspirational Quotes (51)

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These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity, sleeping in the cold night's arms.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca
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I think about my art works as paintings, because they refer to the history of painting. I also have to think about them as sculptures, because every part of the process is part of the project. They're sculptures because they play on the idea of what should be hanging in a gallery. In that sense they're also kind of ready-mades.
Cory Arcangel
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My son Hannibal will be a great general, because of all my soldiers he best knows how to obey.
Hamilcar Barca
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No virtue can be real that has not been tried. The gold in the crucible alone is perfect the loadstone tests the steel, and the diamond is tried by the diamond, while metals gleam the brighter in the furnace.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca
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It struck me at some point that the things I wanted to say had to be wordless. I had to renounce words in order to go deep into the practice of making materials and textures that would express what I'm trying to say more accurately.
Arca
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Our treasures trifles seem, and all our life is dreaming, and the dreams themselves are dreams.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca
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I do love the idea that something can make you forget that you're listening and just transport you to somewhere else in your head.
Arca
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They say that the best counsel is that of woman.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca
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I do love voices so much that I will use them and manipulate them. The presence of a human voice in a piece of music is really exciting, even if it's just someone's breathing.
Arca
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You become more animalistic when you don't know what's coming next - you have to be on guard, but at the same time you're also more receptive.
Arca
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Keep doing what you like to do. That's all it is.
Cory Arcangel
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First thought, best thought. I live by that when I make my own music.
Arca
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Engineering is a creative practice.
Cory Arcangel
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I had an unspoken treaty with myself to never lie in my lyrics, so, for a long time, when I wrote love songs, I would use genderless pronouns, like dear and darling - like some kind of granny!
Arca
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Speak no evil of women I tell thee the meanest of them deserves respect for of women do we not all come?
Pedro Calderon de la Barca
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The heart is an astrologer that always divines the truth.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca
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Someone can only be vampiric if you allow it.
Arca
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I've never been able to write for myself. I was doing a lot. I produced The Green, I wrote it - I didn't see myself in the world of this film. I'm sure there are elements of dark corners of my psyche that found their ways on screen you didn't need my mug up there. There was enough of my essence in the story as it plays out without me acting in it.
Paul Marcarelli
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Once a guy starts wearing silk pajamas it's hard to get up early.
Eddie Arcaro
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I just try to bring a kind of consciousness to the work I'm doing. I'll worry about the next job when I have the next job. There are a lot worse things than being known for a certain kind of specificity. You'll get calls for that thing. And that's better than not getting any calls at all.
Paul Marcarelli
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I never was much of a game player, but I loved to be on the computer.
Cory Arcangel
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Simplicity is an asset, not a weakness... The smaller the idea the happier I am.
Cory Arcangel
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But whether it be dream or truth, to do well is what matters. If it be truth, for truth's sake. If not, then to gain friends for the time when we awaken.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca
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Restless sunflower cease to move.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca
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