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"A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great"
Joshua Reynolds, Artist
"And dance is wonderful because dance is so immediate"
Graeme Murphy, Dancer
"I have had so many great moments, but I would have to say that dancing the Swan in 'Swan Lake' was such a unique and passionate experience for me. It was such bloody hard work, even at that very early age, that I would not want to try to replicate it again now"
William Kempe, Actor
"To put what you see on paper is the same as funneling what you feel through yourself as a performer"
Rod Taylor, Actor
"I started doing improv my sophomore year"
Rachel Dratch, Comedian
"At a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture"
Martin Puryear, Sculptor
"When I get my hands on painting materials I don't give a damn about other people's painting... Every generation must start again afresh"
Maurice de Vlaminck, Artist
"Good painting is like good cooking; it can be tasted, but not explained"
Maurice de Vlaminck, Artist
"To put up a show is to face life's injustices with one of the few weapons available to a desperate and brave people, their imagination"
Luigi Barzini, Journalist
"I don't think just funny is enough on Broadway"
Don Knotts, Actor
"With acting, it was really more of a general kind of experience of really just loving being in the theater"
Marisa Tomei, Actress
"Frank is such a great visual storyteller that if you study his artwork you see that his Sin City books are already the best movies never seen on the big screen"
Robert Rodriguez, Director
"The people were just so lovely and accommodating and had really interesting questions and it was just interesting to see how the show is actually received in so many different countries"
Shiri Appleby, Actress
"I really don't have a theme when I start a sculpture. The rock guides me to the final sculpture. I think that is true for many creative sculpture artists"
Jimmy Carl Black, Musician
"I loved the gentlemanly way they treated each other. It was unlike anything I was used to. I started helping them strike the set and, at 11, began taking acting classes privately"
Jeffrey Tambor, Actor
"I had to be sure we were doing something tasteful"
Larry Hovis, Musician
"America is ready for intelligent talk. I am ready to bring some humanity to TV"
John Walsh, Entertainer
"The student who deceives himself into thinking that he is giving his life like an ascetic in the spirit of sacrifice for art is the victim of a deplorable species of egotism"
Alma Gluck, Musician
"We're delighted to be working with Apple to offer fans a new and innovative way to experience our wildly popular shows"
Robert Iger, Businessman
"An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination"
Eduard Hanslick, Writer
"The Smithsonian museums are among this country's most endearing treasures, and I look forward to helping maintain and enhance their coveted works of art"
Xavier Becerra, Politician
"New York is not conductive to theater. New York does not encourage its young. It does not encourage experimentation"
Tim Robbins, Actor
"I started getting on my feet and clowning around, and they ended up putting me in a play when I was 12. And I was hooked"
Tim Robbins, Actor
"The relationship with a live audience seems to me to count for more"
Cyril Cusack, Actor
"I am a nationalist... my native soil is the theatre"
Cyril Cusack, Actor
"We all have fertile creative periods and times when we can't figure out how we ever did it"
Cynthia Weil, Musician
"Fred Astaire is my hero. I love him because he was willing to kill himself to make his art look effortless. And because he proved it's possible to be an artist and a good person"
Connie Willis, Writer
"Sometimes I get worried I'm getting too caught up in the nauseatingly oily smoothness of my own line, when all I'm trying to do is make it as clear as possible"
Chris Ware, Artist
"If I could live a parallel life, I would be a sitcom star, being in front of a live audience would be great"
Scott Wolf, Actor
"I do still like television very much, but the theatre does really have something special about it"
Sarah Sutton, Actress
"An important work of architecture will create polemics"
Richard Meier, Architect
"Ever since I got on Days, I've been doing theater"
Austin Peck, Actor
"In art, there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution"
Bela Bartok, Composer
"I can't cut off an ear everyday. Do the Van Gogh here and the Mozart there. Anyway, it's exhausting enough always having to check up on what one is really doing!"
Martin Kippenberger, Artist
"I guess I've always liked the idea of being an artist"
Larry Rivers, Musician
"Acting is the ability to dream on cue"
Ralph Richardson, Actor
"A style is not a matter of camera angles or fancy footwork, it's an expression, an accurate expression of your particular opinion"
Karel Reisz, Director
"Let's talk of a system that transforms all the social organisms into a work of art, in which the entire process of work is included... something in which the principle of production and consumption takes on a form of quality. It's a gigantic project"
Joseph Beuys, Artist
"It is important to make your own stuff. Even if you are not an actor, it is important to not stop involving yourself as a creative person"
Ajay Naidu, Actor
"Once we start collecting, the more you have, the more it gets valuable, and that will stop us from responding to the present and taking on new ideas: what the artists are doing now"
David Elliott, Celebrity
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