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"Artists, to my mind, are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact"
William S. Burroughs, Writer
"I'm a huge fan of Jonathan Winters. He's influenced everyone who's ever done improvisational comedy. You look to Jonathan Winters for inspiration. He paved the way"
Rob Reiner, Director
"Whether it's films or painting or music or writing a book, the greatest experience is being able to express yourself and what you've gone through, trying to figure out a way to make it into something that's artistic that people can connect with"
Rob Reiner, Director
"Make the workmanship surpass the materials"
Ovid, Poet
"If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye"
Honore de Balzac, Novelist
"A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant"
Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer
"For I must tell you that we artists cannot tread the path of Beauty without Eros keeping company with us and appointing himself as our guide"
Thomas Mann, Writer
"The imagination is a palette of bright colors. You can use it to touch up memories - or you can use it to paint dreams"
Robert Brault, Philosopher
"The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal"
George Santayana, Philosopher
"It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. That make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands"
George Santayana, Philosopher
"Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors"
George Santayana, Philosopher
"An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world"
George Santayana, Philosopher
"Sometimes cameras and television are good to people and sometimes they aren't. I don't know if it's the way you say it, or how you look"
Dan Quayle, Vice President
"I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money!"
Lord Acton, Historian
"Every time I go to the theater, there's something about the atmosphere, seeing something unfold live in front of an audience, that you can't get out of your system"
John Madden, Coach
"Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste"
William Butler Yeats, Poet
"Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first"
Arthur Schopenhauer, Philosopher
"The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never see him"
Gustave Flaubert, Novelist
"Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced"
Leo Tolstoy, Novelist
"Exuberance is better than taste"
Gustave Flaubert, Novelist
"Caught up in life, you see it badly. You suffer from it or enjoy it too much. The artist, in my opinion, is a monstrosity, something outside of nature"
Gustave Flaubert, Novelist
"Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything"
Gustave Flaubert, Novelist
"Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith, and freedom"
Gustave Flaubert, Novelist
"There are neither good nor bad subjects. From the point of view of pure Art, you could almost establish it as an axiom that the subject is irrelevant, style itself being an absolute manner of seeing things"
Gustave Flaubert, Novelist
"The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces"
Thomas Aquinas, Theologian
"Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music, or pictures, or architecture, or anything else, is always a portrait of himself"
Samuel Butler, Poet
"Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art"
Harry S. Truman, President
"All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will, but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him"
W. H. Auden, Poet
"Art is born of humiliation"
W. H. Auden, Poet
"Performing doesn't turn me on. It's an egomaniac business, filled with prima donnas - including this one"
Dan Rather, Journalist
"Art is not living. It is the use of living"
Audre Lorde, Poet
"The power of daring anything, their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet"
Horace, Poet
"Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further"
Rainer Maria Rilke, Poet
"To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all"
Walt Whitman, Poet
"Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic"
Salvador Dali, Artist
"Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision"
Salvador Dali, Artist
"Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation"
Salvador Dali, Artist
"It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning"
Salvador Dali, Artist
"Instead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion, it is necessary to try to make of surrealism something as solid, complete, and classic as the works of museums"
Salvador Dali, Artist
"I have Dalinian thought: the one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous"
Salvador Dali, Artist
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