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"The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art"
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poet
"An artist cannot do anything slovenly"
Jane Austen, Writer
"We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art"
Salvador Dali, Artist
"The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture"
Salvador Dali, Artist
"Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad"
Salvador Dali, Artist
"Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art"
Tom Stoppard, Dramatist
"Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself"
Henry Miller, Writer
"We have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to our perturbed world that the things we have in common far outnumber and outweigh those that divide us"
Walt Disney, Cartoonist
"I try to build a full personality for each of our cartoon characters - to make them personalities"
Walt Disney, Cartoonist
"Surrealism is a bourgeois disaffection; that its militants thought it universal is only one of the signs that it is typically bourgeois"
Susan Sontag, Author
"The painter constructs, the photographer discloses"
Susan Sontag, Author
"Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening"
Coco Chanel, Designer
"I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream"
Vincent Van Gogh, Artist
"Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model"
Vincent Van Gogh, Artist
"Nonsense and beauty have close connections"
E. M. Forster, Novelist
"Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion"
Vincent Van Gogh, Artist
"The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it"
Carl Rogers, Psychologist
"To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts"
Charles Baudelaire, Poet
"What is art? Prostitution"
Charles Baudelaire, Poet
"It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression"
Henri Matisse, Artist
"What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue"
Henri Matisse, Artist
"Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same"
T. S. Eliot, Poet
"When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence"
Ansel Adams, Photographer
"Not everybody trusts paintings, but people believe photographs"
Ansel Adams, Photographer
"Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit"
Ansel Adams, Photographer
"It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators"
Ansel Adams, Photographer
"A good photograph is knowing where to stand"
Ansel Adams, Photographer
"Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose"
Charles Eames, Designer
"To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things"
Ansel Adams, Photographer
"There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs"
Ansel Adams, Photographer
"The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit"
Ansel Adams, Photographer
"I suppose an artist takes the elements of his life and rearranges them, and then has them perceived by others as though they were the elements of their lives"
Paul Simon, Musician
"Art is the objectification of feeling"
Herman Melville, Novelist
"Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure"
Alfred North Whitehead, Mathematician
"There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting"
John Kenneth Galbraith, Economist
"Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater"
William Ralph Inge, Clergyman
"The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it"
Orson Welles, Actor
"I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time"
Orson Welles, Actor
"Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state"
Cesare Pavese, Poet
"A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong"
Orson Welles, Actor
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