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"At its best, entertainment is going to be a subjective thing that can't win for everyone, while at worst, a particular game just becomes a random symbol for petty tribal behavior"
John Carmack, Scientist
"There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking"
Jean de La Bruyère, Philosopher
"When a work lifts your spirits and inspires bold and noble thoughts in you, do not look for any other standard to judge by: the work is good, the product of a master craftsman"
Jean de La Bruyère, Philosopher
"An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's"
J.D. Salinger, Novelist
"Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees"
Marcel Proust, Author
"Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces"
Marcel Proust, Author
"The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature"
Thomas B. Macaulay, Historian
"To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation"
Alexander Smith, Poet
"When you create art, the world has to wait"
Will Smith, Actor
"No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times"
Martha Graham, Dancer
"To me, a building - if it's beautiful - is the love of one man, he's made it out of his love for space, materials, things like that"
Martha Graham, Dancer
"An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation"
Joseph Conrad, Novelist
"History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird"
Joseph Conrad, Novelist
"A play visibly represents pure existing"
Thornton Wilder, Writer
"The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with"
Golda Meir, Leader
"Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys"
Golda Meir, Leader
"Theater is a verb before it is a noun, an act before it is a place"
Martha Graham, Dancer
"The body says what words cannot"
Martha Graham, Dancer
"The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body"
Martha Graham, Dancer
"Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion"
Martha Graham, Dancer
"Nothing is more revealing than movement"
Martha Graham, Dancer
"It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness"
Thornton Wilder, Writer
"Art is an attempt to integrate evil"
Simone de Beauvoir, Writer
"When I was growing up, there was no such thing as Off-Broadway. You either got your show on or you didn't"
Stephen Sondheim, Composer
"The theatre, our theatre, comes from the Greeks"
Edward Bond, Playwright
"I think there is no world without theatre"
Edward Bond, Playwright
"If people have split views about your work, I think it's flattering. I'd rather have them feel something about it than dismiss it"
Stephen Sondheim, Composer
"All the best performers bring to their role something more, something different than what the author put on paper. That's what makes theatre live. That's why it persists"
Stephen Sondheim, Composer
"Fifteen years ago, I walked out of a production of one of my plays at the RSC because I decided it was a waste of time"
Edward Bond, Playwright
"At the turn of the century, theatre does not have to be prescriptive"
Edward Bond, Playwright
"You have to go to the ultimate situation in drama"
Edward Bond, Playwright
"Now, drama is quite useful at helping us to understand what our position is and, conversely, we might then understand why our theatre is being destroyed"
Edward Bond, Playwright
"I don't think it's the job of theatre at the moment to provide political propaganda; that would be simplistic. We have to explore our situation further before we will understand it"
Edward Bond, Playwright
"I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture"
Saul Bellow, Novelist
"Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately"
Saul Bellow, Novelist
"To create art means to be crazy alone forever"
Charles Bukowski, Poet
"Style is the answer to everything. A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thing. To do a dull thing with style is preferable to doing a dangerous thing without it. To do a dangerous thing with style is what I call art"
Charles Bukowski, Poet
"Any asshole can chase a skirt, art takes discipline"
Charles Bukowski, Poet
"An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way"
Charles Bukowski, Poet
"To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art"
Charles Bukowski, Poet
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