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"I am not an angel and do not pretend to be. That is not one of my roles. But I am not the devil either. I am a woman and a serious artist, and I would like so to be judged"
Maria Callas, Musician
"Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'"
Edgar Allan Poe, Poet
"The multiplicity of ideas is what I'm interested in"
Thom Mayne, Architect
"The aesthetic of architecture has to be rooted in a broader idea about human activities like walking, relaxing and communicating. Architecture thinks about how these activities can be given added value"
Thom Mayne, Architect
"I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies"
Le Corbusier, Architect
"Asking an artist to talk about his work is like asking a plant to discuss horticulture"
Jean Cocteau, Director
"Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light"
Le Corbusier, Architect
"Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins"
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Architect
"Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space"
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Architect
"The only thing that I could get with chance, and I never was able to use it, was that I would end up with something quite geometric or the spirit that I was interested in indulging in was gone"
Robert Rauschenberg, Artist
"The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart"
George Sand, Novelist
"I'm cautious about using fire. It can become theatrical. I am interested in the heat, not the flames"
Andy Goldsworthy, Artist
"I have worked with this red all over the world - in Japan, California, France, Britain, Australia - a vein running round the earth. It has taught me about the flow, energy and life that connects one place with another"
Andy Goldsworthy, Artist
"I am not a performer, but occasionally I deliberately work in a public context. Some sculptures need the movement of people around them to work"
Andy Goldsworthy, Artist
"People do not realise that many of my works are done in urban places. I was brought up on the edge of Leeds, five miles from the city centre-on one side were fields and on the other, the city"
Andy Goldsworthy, Artist
"It takes between three and six hours to make each snowball, depending on snow quality. Wet snow is quick to work with but also quick to thaw, which can lead to a tense journey to the cold store"
Andy Goldsworthy, Artist
"Insight is the first condition of Art"
George Henry Lewes, Philosopher
"I have a strong dance background. I danced from age five till 18, and that helps a lot. Doing a fight routine is like doing a dance routine"
Yvonne Strahovski, Actress
"In Japanese art, space assumed a dominant role and its position was strengthened by Zen concepts"
Stephen Gardiner, Architect
"It's to paint directly on the canvas without any funny business, as it were, and I use almost pure turpentine to start with, adding oil as I go along until the medium becomes pure oil. I use as little oil as I can possibly help, and that's my method"
Edward Hopper, Artist
"Art is either plagiarism or revolution"
Paul Gauguin, Artist
"I think it's pretentious to create art just for the sake of stroking the artist's ego"
Lou Reed, Musician
"I'm very resistant to most forms of theater"
Steven Berkoff, Actor
"To any artist, worthy of the name, all in nature is beautiful, because his eyes, fearlessly accepting all exterior truth, read there, as in an open book, all the inner truth"
Auguste Rodin, Sculptor
"What you see is what you see"
Frank Stella, Artist
"I was worried in the '80s that the best abstract painting had become obsessed with materiality, and painterly gestures and materiality were up against the wall"
Frank Stella, Artist
"I invent nothing, I rediscover"
Auguste Rodin, Sculptor
"When I'm painting the picture, I'm really painting a picture. I may have a flat-footed technique or something like that, but still, to me, the thrill or the meat of the thing is the actual painting. I don't get any thrill out of laying it out"
Frank Stella, Artist
"One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters"
Frank Stella, Artist
"I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need"
Auguste Rodin, Sculptor
"I studied architecture in New York. So, really I was very moved, like everyone else, to try to contribute something that has that resonance and profundity of it means to all of us"
Daniel Libeskind, Architect
"There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation"
Henri Bergson, Philosopher
"That is the artistic task: To choose the best from these solutions"
Arne Jacobsen, Architect
"Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end"
George A. Moore, Novelist
"There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart"
Kenzo Tange, Architect
"Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do"
Elizabeth Bowen, Novelist
"Western art is built on the biographical passion of one artist for another"
Jim Dine, Artist
"Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding"
Gian Carlo Menotti, Composer
"My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph"
Richard Avedon, Photographer
"All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth"
Richard Avedon, Photographer
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