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"An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it"
Paul Valery, Poet
"Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize"
James Joyce, Novelist
"Some really good things kind of swing both ways, and I like to see people that can swing really, really, really sad and horrible and terrible and really, really, really beautiful, and funny"
Beth Henley, Playwright
"If your job is to leaven ordinary lives with elevating spectacle, be elevating or be gone"
George Will, Journalist
"The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind"
David Herbert Lawrence, Writer
"Art is man's expression of his joy in labor"
Henry A. Kissinger, Statesman
"Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes"
David Herbert Lawrence, Writer
"My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all"
John Lennon, Musician
"Art is about trying to find the good in people and making the world a more compassionate place"
Keanu Reeves, Actor
"I would go to sketch groups and draw. I really enjoyed the subject matter, but I wasn't good at it"
Jack Prelutsky, Poet
"The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet of the crystal"
Pope Paul VI, Clergyman
"I don't understand it. Jack will spend any amount of money to buy votes, but he balks at investing a thousand dollars in a beautiful painting"
Jackie Kennedy, First Lady
"It's a funny show. The characters are surprisingly likable, given how ugly they are. We've got this huge cast of characters that we can move around. And over the last few seasons, we've explored some of the secondary characters' personal lives a bit more"
Matt Groening, Cartoonist
"I draw a weekly comic strip called Life in Hell, which is syndicated in about 250 newspapers. That's what I did before The Simpsons, and what I plan to do for the rest of my life"
Matt Groening, Cartoonist
"The thing that makes me happiest about Simpsons Illustrated are all the drawings that we get from readers. I wish we could print them all. They're really imaginative. They show a lot of hard work"
Matt Groening, Cartoonist
"Basically, everything I try to do is to present an alternative to what somebody else is doing"
Matt Groening, Cartoonist
"The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful"
Orson Welles, Actor
"I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act"
Orson Welles, Actor
"I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time"
Orson Welles, Actor
"Create your own visual style... Let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others"
Orson Welles, Actor
"A picture is a fact"
Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosopher
"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep!"
Scott Adams, Cartoonist
"I think art is the ultimate transformative tool. You can change somebody's mind or change somebody's life with one song, one painting, or one piece of literature"
Sheryl Crow, Musician
"The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage"
Maggie Smith, Actress
"You had to be aware that I saw that photography was a mere episode in the history of the optical projection, and when the chemicals ended, meaning the picture was fixed by chemicals, we were in a new era"
David Hockney, Artist
"What I didn't know was I was deeply attracted to the big space"
David Hockney, Artist
"Well, you can't teach the poetry, but you can teach the craft"
David Hockney, Artist
"It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work"
David Hockney, Artist
"Television is becoming a collage - there are so many channels that you move through them making a collage yourself. In that sense, everyone sees something a bit different"
David Hockney, Artist
"I made a photograph of a garden in Kyoto, the Zen garden, which is a rectangle. But a photograph taken from any one point will not show, well it shows a rectangle, but not with ninety degree angles"
David Hockney, Artist
"But slowly I began to use cameras and then think about what it was that was going on. It took me a long time, I mean, I actually played with cameras and photography for about 20 years"
David Hockney, Artist
"There is a kind of invisible thread between the actor and the audience, and when it's there, it's stunning, and there is nothing to match that"
Maggie Smith, Actress
"Your art kind of changes as you get older, by nature of the fact that you're hopefully gaining wisdom and you're starting to watch things with a better overview"
Sheryl Crow, Musician
"Yes, I did, I mean, I painted er, in a kind of abstract expressionist way, because of course that was exciting"
David Hockney, Artist
"I think Picasso was, without doubt, the greatest portraitist of the 20th century, if not any other century"
David Hockney, Artist
"Most artists work all the time, they do actually, especially good artists, they work all the time, what else is there to do? I mean, you do"
David Hockney, Artist
"Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus"
David Hockney, Artist
"But, I would always be thinking of how pictures are constructed and colour, how to use it, I mean you're using it for constructing, makes you think about it, the place did as well"
David Hockney, Artist
"Anything simple always interests me"
David Hockney, Artist
"And then I went round the corner and there's a Van Gogh portrait, and you just think, well, this is another level. A higher level, actually. I love the Sargent, but it's not the level of Van Gogh"
David Hockney, Artist
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