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"I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait"
Salvador Dali, Artist
"Luxury is the wolf at the door, and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is"
Tennessee Williams, Dramatist
"All good art is an indiscretion"
Tennessee Williams, Dramatist
"I have often seen an actor laugh off the stage, but I don't remember ever having seen one weep"
Bette Davis, Actress
"Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation"
Bette Davis, Actress
"Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art"
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Author
"Any good piece of material like Shakespeare ought to be open to reinterpretation"
Denzel Washington, Actor
"Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life"
George Eliot, Author
"In art as in love, instinct is enough"
Anatole France, Novelist
"An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why"
William Faulkner, Novelist
"The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of scholars, the scholar of nature"
William Hazlitt, Critic
"My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful"
Tom Stoppard, Dramatist
"The worst sin that can be committed against the artist is to take him at his word, to see in his work a fulfillment instead of an horizon"
Henry Miller, Writer
"The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts"
Henry Miller, Writer
"Obscenity is a cleansing process, whereas pornography only adds to the murk"
Henry Miller, Writer
"Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, if art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for?"
Alice Walker, Author
"The cultured man is an artist, an artist in humanity"
Ashley Montagu, Scientist
"Art is not in some far-off place. A work of art is the expression of a man's whole personality, sensibility and ability"
Shinichi Suzuki, Musician
"Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic"
Jorge Luis Borges, Poet
"The beautiful is what gives joy without concept"
H. C. Andersen, Writer
"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it"
Frank Zappa, Musician
"Creativity makes a leap, then looks to see where it is"
Mason Cooley, Writer
"If you are going to break a Law of Art, make the crime interesting"
Mason Cooley, Writer
"Art seduces, but does not exploit"
Mason Cooley, Writer
"Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation"
Mason Cooley, Writer
"Few artists can afford artistic temperament"
Mason Cooley, Writer
"Totem poles and wooden masks no longer suggest tribal villages but fashionable drawing rooms in New York and Paris"
Mason Cooley, Writer
"Disneyland is a show"
Walt Disney, Cartoonist
"Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals"
Walt Disney, Cartoonist
"Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation!"
Walt Disney, Cartoonist
"All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable"
Walt Disney, Cartoonist
"When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it's because he's so human; and that is the secret of his popularity"
Walt Disney, Cartoonist
"I never called my work an 'art.' It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment"
Walt Disney, Cartoonist
"In museums and palaces we are alternate radicals and conservatives"
Henry James, Writer
"I think the definition of an artist is not necessarily tied into excellence or talent; an artist is somebody who, if you took away their freedom to make art, would lose their mind"
Richard Price, Writer
"It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance... and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process"
Henry James, Writer
"In art, economy is always beauty"
Henry James, Writer
"The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable"
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Poet
"Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger"
Coco Chanel, Designer
"It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with, we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it"
Anais Nin, Author
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