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"The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls"
Pablo Picasso, Artist
"Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age"
Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect
"I used to build up to sensation, accumulating tension until it released a perceptual experience"
Bridget Riley, Artist
"The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history"
Robert Rauschenberg, Artist
"Comic books and graphic novels are a great medium. It's incredibly underused"
Darren Aronofsky, Director
"The beautiful is in nature, and it is encountered under the most diverse forms of reality. Once it is found, it belongs to art, or rather to the artist who discovers it"
Gustave Courbet, Artist
"As both a fine artist and a graphic designer, I specialize in the visual presentation of words"
John Langdon, Politician
"Animation is about creating the illusion of life. And you can't create it if you don't have one"
Brad Bird, Cartoonist
"Any artist always has misgivings about calling himself an artist"
Bill Budge, Businessman
"Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest"
Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher
"Every artist was first an amateur"
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher
"Everything you can imagine is real"
Pablo Picasso, Artist
"Every act of creation is first an act of destruction"
Pablo Picasso, Artist
"Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions"
Pablo Picasso, Artist
"The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own, we have no soul of our own civilization"
Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect
"For me nature is not landscape, but the dynamism of visual forces"
Bridget Riley, Artist
"Art is never finished, only abandoned"
Leonardo da Vinci, Artist
"A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away"
Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Novelist
"The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows"
Frank Zappa, Musician
"Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory fugitive element, which is constantly changing, must not be despised or neglected"
Charles Baudelaire, Poet
"Art is the signature of civilizations"
Beverly Sills, Musician
"All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space"
Philip Johnson, Architect
"I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality"
Frida Kahlo, Painter
"When I design buildings, I think of the overall composition, much as the parts of a body would fit together. On top of that, I think about how people will approach the building and experience that space"
Tadao Ando, Architect
"A line is a dot that went for a walk"
Paul Klee, Artist
"A sculptor wields the chisel, and the stricken marble grows to beauty"
William C. Bryant, Poet
"Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs"
Thomas Wolfe, Novelist
"The best artists know what to leave out"
Charles de Lint, Writer
"I think an artist's responsibility is more complex than people realize"
Jodie Foster, Actress
"Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change - it can not only move us; it makes us move"
Ossie Davis, Actor
"The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize"
Robert Hughes, Critic
"Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future"
Albert Camus, Philosopher
"I learned very early that an audience would relax and look at things differently if they felt they could laugh with you from time to time. There's an energy that comes through the release of tension that is laughter"
Twyla Tharp, Dancer
"All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable"
Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect
"As the artist picks his way along, rejecting and accepting as he goes, certain patterns of enquiry emerge"
Bridget Riley, Artist
"An artist's early work is inevitably made up of a mixture of tendencies and interests, some of which are compatible and some of which are in conflict"
Bridget Riley, Artist
"I want to paint big, bright, optimistic pictures of the place I love"
John Dyer, Artist
"I still take photographs for my own use, personal studies. I do not feel that I can fully express my views through the medium and this is why I have moved towards painting"
John Dyer, Artist
"Every work of art is an uncommitted crime"
Theodor Adorno, Philosopher
"The still must tease with the promise of a story, the viewer of it itches to be told"
Cindy Sherman, Photographer
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