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"But I think you have to - whatever the environment looks like, it does enter into people's art work one way or another; it's very remote or it isn't. It's remote in my work but it has to have a certain degree of ordinariness"
Donald Judd, Artist
"What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending"
William Dean Howells, Author
"Most art is fragile and some should be placed and never moved away"
Donald Judd, Artist
"A nation devoid of art and artists cannot have a full existence"
Kemal Ataturk, Soldier
"I think most of the art now is involved with a denial of any kind of absolute morality or general morality"
Donald Judd, Artist
"I pay a lot of attention to how things are done, and the whole activity of building something is interesting"
Donald Judd, Artist
"Museums are tombs, and it looks like everything is turning into a museum"
Robert Smithson, Artist
"On the stage, you have to find truth, even if you have to lose the audience"
Anthony Quinn, Actor
"A museum has to renew its collection to be alive, but that does not mean we give on important old works"
David Rockefeller, Businessman
"I think that one's art is a growth inside one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is silent and subtle. One does not keep digging up a plant to see how it grows"
Emily Carr, Artist
"You always feel when you look it straight in the eye that you could have put more into it, could have let yourself go and dug harder"
Emily Carr, Artist
"As a fashion designer, I was always aware that I was not an artist, because I was creating something that was made to be sold, marketed, used, and ultimately discarded"
Tom Ford, Designer
"A great department store, easily reached, open at all hours, is more like a good museum of art than any of the museums we have yet established"
John Cotton Dana, Author
"Sane judgment abhors nothing so much as a picture perpetrated with no technical knowledge, although with plenty of care and diligence"
Albrecht Durer, Artist
"Art is man's nature; nature is God's art"
Philip James Bailey, Poet
"It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory"
Edgar Degas, Artist
"Art is not what you see, but what you make others see"
Edgar Degas, Artist
"Seeing is in itself a movement"
Robert Delaunay, Artist
"There is incredible power in the arts to inspire and influence"
Julie Taymor, Director
"What beauty is, I know not, though it adheres to many things"
Albrecht Durer, Artist
"Simultaneity in light is harmony, the rhythm of colors which creates the Vision of Man"
Robert Delaunay, Artist
"Art and Religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy. Between aesthetic and religious rapture there is a family alliance. Art and Religion are means to similar states of mind"
Clive Bell, Critic
"Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence"
Jeanette Winterson, Novelist
"Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind"
Johannes Brahms, Composer
"We must always take from nature what we paint and always choose the most beautiful things"
Leon Battista Alberti, Architect
"A great artist is never poor"
Isak Dinesen, Writer
"Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it"
Edgar Degas, Artist
"When we tune in to an especially human way of viewing the landscape powerfully, it resonates with an audience"
Galen Rowell, Photographer
"Animation is the only thing I ever wanted to do in my whole life. I have no desire for live-action or anything else"
John Lasseter, Director
"The landscape is like being there with a powerful personality and I'm searching for just the right angles to make that portrait come across as meaningfully as possible"
Galen Rowell, Photographer
"One of the biggest mistakes a photographer can make is to look at the real world and cling to the vain hope that next time his film will somehow bear a closer resemblance to it"
Galen Rowell, Photographer
"The purpose of art is to impart the sensation of things as they are perceived and not as they are known"
El Lissitzky, Artist
"Art does not need us, and it never did"
El Lissitzky, Artist
"Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly"
Pierre Bonnard, Artist
"There is no must in art because art is free"
Wassily Kandinsky, Artist
"The dance world is too small in lots of ways - it's too intense, it rattles around itself, and it needs exposing to other ideas"
Siobhan Davies, Dancer
"I paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality... to protect myself"
Alberto Giacometti, Sculptor
"I wasn't originally taking drama, but the drama teacher asked me to audition for Bye, Bye Birdie. I did and got the lead role. Initially I was kind of scared, but once I did it I got bitten by the bug and loved it"
Kevin Richardson, Musician
"Through a painting we can see the whole world"
Hans Hofmann, Artist
"Our approach was very simple. It was about creating a universal language. A show that will be attractive toward every people coming from all over the world. And that was a big thing"
Guy Laliberte, Businessman
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