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"You study, you learn, but you guard the original naivete. It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within the drunkard or love is within the lover"
Henri Matisse, Artist
"Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul"
Henri Matisse, Artist
"I have always tried to hide my efforts, and wished my works to have a light joyousness of springtime, which never lets anyone suspect the labors it has cost me"
Henri Matisse, Artist
"It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else"
Henri Matisse, Artist
"I wouldn't mind turning into a vermilion goldfish"
Henri Matisse, Artist
"I have been no more than a medium, as it were"
Henri Matisse, Artist
"I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me"
Henri Matisse, Artist
"Cutting into color reminds me of the sculptor's direct carving"
Henri Matisse, Artist
"There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted"
Henri Matisse, Artist
"Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence"
Henri Matisse, Artist
"The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality"
T. S. Eliot, Poet
"A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good"
T. S. Eliot, Poet
"And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves, "It's pretty, but is it Art?""
Rudyard Kipling, Writer
"It's clever, but is it Art?"
Rudyard Kipling, Writer
"Dancing is the poetry of the foot"
John Dryden, Poet
"I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose"
Charlie Chaplin, Actor
"You don't take a photograph, you make it"
Ansel Adams, Photographer
"Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter"
Ansel Adams, Photographer
"Some photographers take reality... and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly, and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation"
Ansel Adams, Photographer
"Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art"
Ansel Adams, Photographer
"No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit"
Ansel Adams, Photographer
"Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment"
Ansel Adams, Photographer
"I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul, perhaps a photograph can!"
Ansel Adams, Photographer
"A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words"
Ansel Adams, Photographer
"A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into"
Ansel Adams, Photographer
"A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed"
Ansel Adams, Photographer
"It is almost impossible to reconcile self expression with the creative act"
Charles Eames, Designer
"In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route"
Charles Eames, Designer
"We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium"
Ansel Adams, Photographer
"There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept"
Ansel Adams, Photographer
"Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination"
Theodor Adorno, Philosopher
"Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane"
Theodor Adorno, Philosopher
"Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth"
Theodor Adorno, Philosopher
"In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science"
Johan Huizinga, Historian
"Being an artist doesn't mean that you're a good artist. That was the bargain I first made with myself: I'd say, I'm an artist, but I'm not really very good"
Paul Simon, Musician
"Facts can be turned into art if one is artful enough"
Paul Simon, Musician
"Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found"
James Russell Lowell, Poet
"Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self"
Alfred North Whitehead, Mathematician
"Our only competition in the theater is boredom, because if I'm bored with a play, if I'm revolted by a play on stage, with the Broadway prices, especially today, I'm going to walk out and not come back and pay that price again"
Jerome Lawrence, Playwright
"A play is a passion"
Jerome Lawrence, Playwright
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