"What I look for when I see a piece of art for the first time is some kind of emotional, intellectual experience, that's a combination of both of those things and is informed by my knowledge and something new that I see the artist doing."

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Source : "Cheech And Chong Reunite, At Long Last". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. January 28, 2010.

Cheech Marin

#Art Quotes #Emotional Quotes #Intellectual Quotes

“It's so freeing, it's beautiful in a way, to have a great failure, there's nowhere to go but up.”
“When I was old enough to go to movies alone, I got to see 'Frankenstein' and 'Dracula' on the big screen. I just fell in love with them.”
“There is no entering into the secret thoughts of a man's heart.”

Source : "The King v. Woodfall" (1774), Lofft. 782 in "The Dictionary of Legal Quotations" by James William Norton-Kyshe, (pp. 178-180), 1904.
“I knew I wanted to write on religious themes when I was a GI in World War II. I saw and experienced so much violence that I thought I could express my outrage best with music.”
“Perfect typography is more a science than an art.”

Source : Jan Tschichold, Robert Bringhurst, Hajo Hadeler (1991). “The form of the book: essays on the morality of good design”, Hartley & Marks Publishers
“I think creative blocks come from people's life journeys. If you don't know who you are or what you're about or what you believe in it's really pretty impossible to be creative.”
“When youâ€™re in love you donâ€™t have to do a damn thing. You can just be. You can just stay quiet in the world. You donâ€™t have to move an inch.”
“When thou seest thine enemy in trouble, curl not thy whiskers in contempt; for in every bone there is marrow, and within every jacket there is a man.”

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