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"A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art"
Paul Cezanne, Artist
"I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best"
Frida Kahlo, Painter
"One eye sees, the other feels"
Paul Klee, Artist
"Liquid architecture. It's like jazz - you improvise, you work together, you play off each other, you make something, they make something. And I think it's a way of - for me, it's a way of trying to understand the city, and what might happen in the city"
Frank Gehry, Architect
"If you could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint"
Edward Hopper, Artist
"To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it"
Daniel Libeskind, Architect
"In visual perception, a color is almost never seen as it really is - as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art"
Josef Albers, Artist
"Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together"
Alvar Aalto, Architect
"I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
"Beauty without expression is boring"
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher
"The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves"
Carl Jung, Psychologist
"Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art"
Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect
"Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union"
Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect
"The space within becomes the reality of the building"
Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect
"Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature"
Camille Paglia, Author
"A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral"
Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Novelist
"Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time"
Thomas Merton, Author
"Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art"
Susan Sontag, Author
"Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions"
Coco Chanel, Designer
"I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences"
Jim Morrison, Musician
"The enemy of art is the absence of limitations"
Orson Welles, Actor
"The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist"
David Hockney, Artist
"A great thing happening now in art is that artists are using the figure, the body, clothing, life"
Issey Miyake, Designer
"We're all products of what we want to project to the world. Even people who don't spend any time, or think they don't, on preparing themselves for the world out there - I think that ultimately they have for their whole lives groomed themselves to be a certain way, to present a face to the world"
Cindy Sherman, Photographer
"A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist"
Louis Nizer, Lawyer
"I don't need the money, dear. I work for art"
Maria Callas, Musician
"Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep"
Le Corbusier, Architect
"The play is not in the words, it's in you!"
Stella Adler, Actress
"I paint with shapes"
Alexander Calder, Sculptor
"To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them"
Elliott Erwitt, Photographer
"The print on canvas is the closest to the original work. I personally sign them as well"
Dwayne Hickman, Actor
"Art is nothing but the expression of our dream; the more we surrender to it, the closer we get to the inner truth of things, our dream-life, the true life that scorns questions and does not see them"
Franz Marc, Artist
"I don't start a piece knowing exactly what effect it's going to have. There is a seed of an idea that I could never articulate, right at the beginning of the piece, literally like one cell"
Siobhan Davies, Dancer
"I love to take things that are everyday and comforting and make them into the most luxurious things in the world"
Marc Jacobs, Designer
"Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions; there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple; that's why it is so complicated"
Paul Rand, Designer
"The great artist is the man who most obviously succeeds in turning his pains to advantage, in letting suffering deepens his understanding and sensibility, in growing through his pains"
Walter Kaufmann, Philosopher
"Art is exalted above religion and race. Not a single solitary soul these days believes in the religions of the Assyrians, the Egyptians and the Greeks... Only their art, whenever it was beautiful, stands proud and exalted, rising above all time"
Emil Nolde, Artist
"For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication"
Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher
"The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
"It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it"
Voltaire, Writer
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