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"It's communication - that's what theatre is all about"
Chita Rivera, Actress
"Clothes and jewellery should be startling, individual. When you see a woman in my clothes, you want to know more about them. To me, that is what distinguishes good designers from bad designers"
Alexander McQueen, Designer
"I also hang the pictures low rather than high, and particularly in the case of the largest ones, often as close to the floor as is feasible, for that is the way they are painted"
Mark Rothko, Artist
"I mean, the most important thing to me is imagination"
Rob Walton, Athlete
"But, when the work was finished, the Craftsman kept wishing that there were someone to ponder the plan of so great a work, to love its beauty, and to wonder at its vastness"
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Writer
"There are some centuries which - apart from everything else - in the art and other disciplines presume to remake everything because they know how to make nothing"
Giacomo Leopardi, Poet
"Whoever neglects the arts when he is young, has lost the past and is dead to the future"
Sophocles, Author
"An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris"
Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher
"The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
"Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
"While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
"No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist!"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
"It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
"Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
"The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it"
Voltaire, Writer
"The biggest problem with every art is, by the use of appearance, to create a loftier reality"
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer
"Objects in pictures should so be arranged as, by their very position, to tell their own story"
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer
"A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, It is a child of solitude"
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer
"One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best"
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer
"Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me?"
George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist
"To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now"
Samuel Beckett, Playwright
"A great artist is a great man in a great child"
Victor Hugo, Author
"The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand"
Victor Hugo, Author
"All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks"
Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer
"The artist in me cries out for design"
Robert Frost, Poet
"The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel'd to heaven is no artist"
William Blake, Poet
"The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa, as Englishmen suppose"
William Blake, Poet
"The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does"
William Blake, Poet
"The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected"
Henry David Thoreau, Author
"You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea"
Pablo Picasso, Artist
"What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero"
Pablo Picasso, Artist
"I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!"
Pablo Picasso, Artist
"I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else"
Pablo Picasso, Artist
"God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, he just goes on trying other things"
Pablo Picasso, Artist
"Give me a museum and I'll fill it"
Pablo Picasso, Artist
"Disciples be damned. It's not interesting. It's only the masters that matter. Those who create"
Pablo Picasso, Artist
"Art is a lie that makes us realize truth"
Pablo Picasso, Artist
"To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow, the coup de grace, for the painter as well as for the picture"
Pablo Picasso, Artist
"They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better"
Pablo Picasso, Artist
"Sculpture is the art of the intelligence"
Pablo Picasso, Artist
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