A Quote by Mason Cooley

Art chooses its constraints.

Mason Cooley

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Art Chooses Constraints

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Mason Cooley
American - Writer
1927 - 2002

Art lives from constraints and dies from freedom.

Leonardo da Vinci

It's fun playing villains. It's people who are not held by any moral constraints - or any constraints, for that matter. It's a chance to be completely off the leash and do things that you never could in real life.

Aaron Stanford

Problems arise only when an artist chooses to be above the art. Not otherwise.

Shobana

He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determines the end.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

I wouldn't know where to start." "He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to." "Thoreau?" "Harry Emerson Fosdick.

Kami Garcia

The more constraints I have, the more opportunities I have to be creative to fix those constraints.

Mitchell Hurwitz

The lad who dreams of being a boxing champion or an admiral chooses reality. If the writer chooses the imaginary, he confuses the two.

Jean-Paul Sartre

He chooses the beginning of a road, also chooses its outcome.

Zig Ziglar

I don't think anyone chooses the decathlon as much as it chooses you.

Bryan Clay

I was just dying to get out of the constraints of television, and the constraints of the parts I'd been playing. I had taken a bunch of improv classes and was performing with The Groundlings. I wanted to get into more adult, risky stuff.

Tim Matheson

I have never been a fan of science fiction. For me, fiction has to explore the combinatorial possibilities of people interacting under the constraints imposed by our biology and history. When an author is free to suspend the constraints, it's tennis without a net.

Steven Pinker

That sort of lack of awareness on the part of an activist about the constraints of our political system and the constraints on this office, I think, sometimes would leave me to mutter under my breath. Very rarely did I lose it publicly. Yeah, usually I'd just smile.

Barack Obama

The girl who chooses to be modest, chooses to be respected.

Howard W. Hunter

I think most dancers would agree that the art of ballet chooses the dancer, not the other way around.

Kevin McKenzie

Everybody has his own great ideas about what my art should be. But I can do whatever I like and there aren't many constraints to the way I work, whether I'm using a brush with ink or paint.

Raymond Pettibon

The important thing for me when I look at characters is to consider the kind of constraints placed upon them. Now, me personally, I don't like to have a lot of constraints placed upon me.

Gong Li

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