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"The level of detail and craft is something that's inscribed within the original design concept. And so when I begin to draw, I know what kind of detailing I want the building to have"
Tadao Ando, Architect
"My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process"
Tadao Ando, Architect
"When I draw something, the brain and the hands work together"
Tadao Ando, Architect
"Good art, however "immoral", is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise"
Ezra Pound, Poet
"Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television"
Rita Mae Brown, Writer
"Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that's all you have"
James Dean, Actor
"Fortunately, art is a community effort - a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh"
Allen Ginsberg, Poet
"Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real"
Federico Fellini, Director
"I became hooked on the idea of being able to shoot an image and process it myself, and end up with a product"
Leonard Nimoy, Actor
"An actor is never so great as when he reminds you of an animal - falling like a cat, lying like a dog, moving like a fox"
Francois Truffaut, Director
"The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world"
Federico Fellini, Director
"Other times, you're doing some piece of work and suddenly you get feedback that tells you that you have touched something that is very alive in the cosmos"
Leonard Nimoy, Actor
"True artists are prophets. I don't want to be that prophetic in that sense because it's so lonely"
Yoko Ono, Artist
"Art is my life and my life is art"
Yoko Ono, Artist
"I really think that effective acting has to do literally with the movement of molecules"
Charlotte Whitton, Politician
"The art of acting is to be other than what you are"
Whoopi Goldberg, Actress
"To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects"
Le Corbusier, Architect
"Everything vanishes around me, and works are born as if out of the void. Ripe, graphic fruits fall off. My hand has become the obedient instrument of a remote will"
Paul Klee, Artist
"A drawing is simply a line going for a walk"
Paul Klee, Artist
"Color possesses me. I don't have to pursue it. It will possess me always, I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour: Color and I are one. I am a painter"
Paul Klee, Artist
"Style is a simple way of saying complicated things"
Jean Cocteau, Director
"No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell"
Antonin Artaud, Dramatist
"In acting process, it's very difficult to explain. It's something very intimate, very private"
Monica Bellucci, Actress
"An actor works with their soul and their thought"
Monica Bellucci, Actress
"Every artist writes his own autobiography"
Henry Ellis, Psychologist
"Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one"
Stella Adler, Actress
"What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time"
John Berger, Artist
"You begin with the possibilities of the material"
Robert Rauschenberg, Artist
"And I think a painting has such a limited life anyway"
Robert Rauschenberg, Artist
"Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress"
John Berger, Artist
"There was a whole language that I could never make function for myself in relationship to painting, and that was attitudes like tortured, struggle, pain"
Robert Rauschenberg, Artist
"I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down"
Georgia O'Keeffe, Artist
"I had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at - not copy it"
Georgia O'Keeffe, Artist
"I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty"
Georgia O'Keeffe, Artist
"Art is science made clear"
Wilson Mizner, Dramatist
"An artist is somebody who enters into competition with God"
Patti Smith, Musician
"Beauty is whatever gives joy"
Edna St. Vincent Millay, Author
"For me, every day is a new thing. I approach each project with a new insecurity, almost like the first project I ever did. And I get the sweats. I go in and start working, I'm not sure where I'm going. If I knew where I was going I wouldn't do it"
Frank Gehry, Architect
"Imagination is not the exclusive appanage of artists, but belongs in varying degrees to all men"
George Henry Lewes, Philosopher
"As all Art depends on Vision, so the different kinds of Art depend on the different ways in which minds look at things"
George Henry Lewes, Philosopher
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