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"I'd rather get back to making art than talk about it"
Jock Sturges, Photographer
"I don't photograph any two people who are remotely the same"
Jock Sturges, Photographer
"Different members of different cultures will think that some things are beautiful"
Jock Sturges, Photographer
"But empirically I've come to understand that my photographs really don't do any harm"
Jock Sturges, Photographer
"Before, I'd photograph anything. I didn't think there was anything more or less obscene about any part of the body"
Jock Sturges, Photographer
"Any artist that's involved in their work is inevitably going to have a focus in what they do"
Jock Sturges, Photographer
"All my life I've taken photographs of people who are completely at peace being what they were in the situations I photographed them in"
Jock Sturges, Photographer
"Carving is easy, you just go down to the skin and stop"
Michelangelo, Artist
"A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it"
Michelangelo, Artist
"Japanese traditional architecture is created based on these conditions. This is the reason you have a very high degree of connection between the outside and inside in architecture"
Tadao Ando, Architect
"I hope that America as a whole, and especially its architects, will become more seriously involved in producing a new architectural culture that would bring the nation to the apex - where it has stood before - and lead the world"
Tadao Ando, Architect
"Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste"
Nikki Giovanni, Poet
"I'm glad I made a piece of art that can be interpreted so widely. Art is always interpreted subjectively"
Paula Cole, Musician
"For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long than too short. An artiste with short arms can never, never make a fine gesture"
Roland Barthes, Critic
"To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive"
Matthew Arnold, Poet
"My countrymen have commissioned a bust of the Republic. It will be placed on the fountain of my native town"
Camille Claudel, Sculptor
"I thank you for your kind invitation to introduce me to the president of the Republic. Since I have not been out of my atelier for two months, I have no appropriate costume for this circumstance. Please excuse me"
Camille Claudel, Sculptor
"What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself"
Roland Barthes, Critic
"The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition... always new books, new programs, new films, news items, but always the same meaning"
Roland Barthes, Critic
"A photograph is always invisible, it is not "it" that we see"
Roland Barthes, Critic
"I don't like to sit and bask in my own awards. Awards represent artistic death to me"
Paula Cole, Musician
"Again, one of the problems I have with television, as I mentioned before, is it's trivial in many ways, and I think that a lot of folks out there are looking for new metaphors and new ways of thinking about things"
J. Michael Straczynski, Producer
"Without this spirit, Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism, I use architecture to reconcile the two"
Tadao Ando, Architect
"People tend not to use this word, beauty, because it's not intellectual - but there has to be an overlap between beauty and intellect"
Tadao Ando, Architect
"We eat up artists like there's going to be a famine at the end"
Nikki Giovanni, Poet
"France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme"
Matthew Arnold, Poet
"I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture"
Tadao Ando, Architect
"It is in fact agreed that I am the plague, the cholera of the benevolent and generous men who are interested in art and that, when I show myself with my plasters, even the Emperor of the Sahara would flee"
Camille Claudel, Sculptor
"I took all my wax studies and threw them in the fire... That's the way it is when something unpleasant happens to me. I take my hammer and I squash a figure"
Camille Claudel, Sculptor
"You see that it is not at all like Rodin... I share these only with you, don't show them"
Camille Claudel, Sculptor
"I would have preferred to be successful here with a piece that cost me a huge amount of money and effort... rather than sending to Bohemia some ordinary works"
Camille Claudel, Sculptor
"One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price"
Robert De Niro, Actor
"The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting"
Ezra Pound, Poet
"I try to find different ways of expressing myself. Without that I will die"
Eric Cantona, Athlete
"It is enjoyable to make things visible which are invisible"
Eric Cantona, Athlete
"The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture"
Raymond Chandler, Writer
"By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality"
Hannah Arendt, Historian
"Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television"
Rita Mae Brown, Writer
"Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life"
Hannah Arendt, Historian
"Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life"
Margaret Fuller, Critic
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