[Although Ball is considered a pop singer, he's not a total stranger to Gilbert and Sullivan, having played Frederick in the West End mounting of Joe Papp's memorable production of The Pirates of Penzance . But Patience is a different kind of work--much of its humor is highly topical, poking fun at the short-lived Aesthetic movement that flourished among British dilettantes 125 years ago. Will that humor translate to a New York audience in the year 2005?] I think there's absolutely no difference to how we regarded things then and how we regard things now, ... There are still those performers and artists who strike on a new art form or mode that attracts their fans, while the majority of us may be saying, 'I'm sorry, but isn't that The Emperor's New Clothes?' There will always be charlatans who do things just to get acclaim and adulation. So I think it'll speak to an audience as clearly today as it did then.
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Honesty is a long lost art form resigned to the archives of famous quotes and a few lone ducks in a pond of hypocrites.
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Capitalism is an art form, an Apollonian fabrication to rival nature. It is hypocritical for feminists and intellectuals to enjoy the pleasures and conveniences of capitalism while sneering at it. Everyone born into capitalism has incurred a debt to it. Give Caesar his due.
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For half a century, photography has been the art form of the untalented. Obviously some pictures are more satisfactory than others, but where is credit due? To the designer of the camera? To the finger on the button? To the law of averages?
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[The literary figure who looms largest in] False Papers ... perfected a language ... and a vision that gave memory an introspection and aesthetic scope and magnitude no author had conferred on either before. He allowed intimacy itself to become an art form.
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A key to my thinking has always been the almost fanatical belief that what I was engaged in was a literary art form. That belief was compounded out of ego and necessity, I guess, a combination of the two.
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What is interesting about self-analysis is that it leads nowhere -- it is an art form in itself.
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We decided to take the one art form that was created in this country -- the Broadway musical -- and celebrate the fact that there have been many gay men who have moved the art form forward since the beginning of the 20th century.
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The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can
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The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public....
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As long as there are musicians who have a passion for spontaneity, for creating something that's never been before, the art form of jazz will flourish.
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If cooking becomes an art form rather than a means of providing a reasonable diet, then something is clearly wrong.
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Honesty is the best part of any art form. If you don't have that, you're kidding yourself and your listener.
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Like any artist with no art form, she became dangerous.
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That life is really so tragic would least of all explain the origin of an art form—assuming that art is not merely imitation of the reality ...
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Does art reflect life? In movies, yes. Because more than any other art form, films have been a mirror held up to society's porous face.
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Magic [embodies] the concept of lying turned into an art form.
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