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"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
"Artists have really never had any representation on Capitol Hill, because it's not the nature of the artist to join together and make a unified presence. Those days kind of died in the '60s"
Sheryl Crow, Musician
"We live in an age where the artist is forgotten. He is a researcher. I see myself that way"
David Hockney, Artist
"I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost - it's there and then it's gone"
Maggie Smith, Actress
"Shadows, sometimes people don't see shadows. The Chinese, of course, never paint them in pictures, oriental art never deals with shadow. But I noticed these shadows and I knew it meant it was sunny"
David Hockney, Artist
"You know, I designed the Queen crest. I simply combined all the creatures that represent our star signs-and I don't even believe in astrology"
Freddie Mercury, Musician
"From the beginning I thought about working with the body in movement, the space between the body and clothes. I wanted the clothes to move when people moved. The clothes are also for people to dance or laugh"
Issey Miyake, Designer
"I very much like dance and dancers"
Issey Miyake, Designer
"It's my goal to make a building as immaterial as possible. Architecture is a very material thing. It takes a lot of resources, so why not eliminate what you don't need as long as you're able to achieve the same result?"
Helmut Jahn, Architect
"Inconsiderate, rude behavior drives me nuts. And I guess the inconsiderate rudeness of social ineptitude definitely fuels my work"
Cindy Sherman, Photographer
"Architecture is inhabited sculpture"
Constantin Brancusi, Sculptor
"Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line"
Joseph Conrad, Novelist
"Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle, and the dance is a celebration of that miracle"
Martha Graham, Dancer
"I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behavior of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of the miracle that is a human being"
Martha Graham, Dancer
"The theatre is supremely fitted to say: 'Behold! These things are.' Yet most dramatists employ it to say: 'This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action.'"
Thornton Wilder, Writer
"Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos"
Stephen Sondheim, Composer
"What is art but a way of seeing?"
Saul Bellow, Novelist
"I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as truth, but as invention, in the same way that poetry or music or painting is invention"
Michael Graves, Architect
"Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor"
Andre Gide, Novelist
"Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations"
Paul Cezanne, Artist
"It's so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas"
Paul Cezanne, Artist
"The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality"
Paul Cezanne, Artist
"I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing"
Paul Cezanne, Artist
"For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations"
Paul Cezanne, Artist
"I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art, you're an idiot"
Steve Martin, Comedian
"Art hath an enemy called Ignorance"
Ben Jonson, Poet
"My painting carries with it the message of pain"
Frida Kahlo, Painter
"If you cannot learn to love real art, at least learn to hate sham art"
William Morris, Designer
"That's my ambition: that you look at the pictures and realize what complex, fascinating, interesting people every single one of my subjects is"
Jock Sturges, Photographer
"Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all"
Andre Breton, Poet
"Dali is like a man who hesitates between talent and genius, or, as one might once have said, between vice and virtue"
Andre Breton, Poet
"Every artist makes himself born. It is very much harder than the other time, and longer"
Willa Cather, Author
"What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself - life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose?"
Willa Cather, Author
"I think of painting without subject matter as music without words"
Kenneth Noland, Artist
"The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself"
Michelangelo, Artist
"The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone"
Michelangelo, Artist
"It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand"
Michelangelo, Artist
"Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn"
John Updike, Novelist
"The photographic image... is a message without a code"
Roland Barthes, Critic
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