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"I started improvising the Cliff character, based on someone I grew up with"
John Ratzenberger, Actor
"I'm afraid that everything will get homogenized and be the same"
David Byrne, Musician
"The work of art is brought into the world without there being a need for it. The house satisfies a requirement. The work of art is responsible to none; the house is responsible to everyone. The work of art wants to draw people out of their state of comfort"
Adolf Loos, Architect
"It betrays hubris on the part of the artist to think his medium is limiting him, and I think we all recognize this"
Steve Albini, Musician
"The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present"
Adolf Loos, Architect
"On the floor I am more at ease. I feel nearer, more part of the painting, since this way I can walk around it, work from the four sides and literally be in the painting"
Jackson Pollock, Artist
"The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul"
Wassily Kandinsky, Artist
"Architecture begins where engineering ends"
Walter Gropius, Architect
"The modern artist... is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces"
Jackson Pollock, Artist
"The thought came to me that all one loves in art becomes beautiful. Beauty is nothing but the expression of the fact that something is being loved. Only thus could she be defined"
Robert Musil, Writer
"The number of contemporary artists who appeal to me is infinitesimal"
Nick Lowe, Musician
"Dancing came easy to me"
Hedda Hopper, Actress
"The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak"
Hans Hofmann, Artist
"I like to not be too involved in the beginning and during the process, so as to keep this fresh look and be able to give constructive recommendation on the final production"
Guy Laliberte, Businessman
"In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light"
Hans Hofmann, Artist
"It is not the form that dictates the color, but the color that brings out the form"
Hans Hofmann, Artist
"In these difficult financial times for so many of our districts, as our local leaders strive to balance their budgets by cutting services, we would be irresponsible not to invest in the arts"
Louise Slaughter, Politician
"Outside of the mindless sitcoms that the networks thrive on, people, able to think, generally consider most entertainment is escape in one form or another"
Gary Gygax, Inventor
"The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not"
Adolf Loos, Architect
"Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible"
Balthus, Artist
"The rule in the art world is: you cater to the masses or you kowtow to the elite; you can't have both"
Ben Hecht, Writer
"What I am interested in now is the landscape. Pictures without people. I wouldn't be surprised if eventually there are no people in my pictures. It is so emotional"
Annie Leibovitz, Photographer
"Theatre is a sacred space for actors. You are responsible; you are in the driving-seat"
Greta Scacchi, Actress
"The role of art in society differs for every artist"
Maya Lin, Architect
"For the stage displays the first vigorous expression, as the natural thing and without conspicuous restraint, of private individuality"
Lascelles Abercrombie, Poet
"I still need the camera because it is the only reason anyone is talking to me"
Annie Leibovitz, Photographer
"I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes"
Yves Saint Laurent, Designer
"The physical characteristics of the child Jesus will always remain a point of discussion. No artist has ever produced a type, nor ever will, that has in it all that the varying minds of all time will acknowledge as complete"
Henry Ossawa Tanner, Artist
"My first calendar was a combination of photos taken from different shoots, including golf and casual"
Natalie Gulbis, Athlete
"To be an artist, you have to give up everything, including the desire to be a good artist"
Jasper Johns, Artist
"All art is exploitation"
Sherman Alexie, Writer
"We adore chaos because we love to produce order"
M. C. Escher, Artist
"Usually if nobody hates a piece, nobody loves it, either; and a magazine which sets itself the goal of provoking thought is not doing its job if everybody agrees with what it does"
Stanley Schmidt, Writer
"Man's striving for order, of which art is but one manifestation, derives from a similar universal tendency throughout the organic world; it is also paralleled by, and perhaps derived from, the striving towards the state of simplest structure in physical systems"
Rudolf Arnheim, Artist
"I adore the theater and I am a painter. I think the two are made for a marriage of love. I will give all my soul to prove this once more"
Marc Chagall, Artist
"You can draw Family Guy when you're 10 years old. You don't have to get any better than that to become a professional cartoonist. The standards are extremely low"
John Kricfalusi, Artist
"An artist is his own fault"
John O'Hara, Writer
"If you're a kid wanting to be a cartoonist today, and you're looking at Family Guy, you don't have to aim very high"
John Kricfalusi, Artist
"Inherit the Wind is a wonderful play, and I was in the original with Paul Muni"
Tony Randall, Actor
"The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself"
Pauline Kael, Critic
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