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"True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist"
Albert Einstein, Physicist
"I call architecture frozen music"
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer
"A picture is worth a thousand words"
Napoleon Bonaparte, Leader
"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance"
Aristotle, Philosopher
"This world is but a canvas to our imagination"
Henry David Thoreau, Author
"I'm not one who divides music, dance or art into various categories. Either something works, or it doesn't"
Twyla Tharp, Dancer
"I have not wanted to intimidate audiences. I have not wanted my dancing to be an elitist form. That doesn't mean I haven't wanted it to be excellent"
Twyla Tharp, Dancer
"In those days, male dancers were a rarer breed than women. As they are still today, A good male dancer, one as strong as we were, was very difficult to come by if you couldn't afford to pay them"
Twyla Tharp, Dancer
"Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together"
John Ruskin, Writer
"Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be"
Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist
"Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul"
W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright
"I have been surrounded by artists and paintings throughout my life. My father Ted Dyer is an artist, and from a very early age I have spent time painting and drawing"
John Dyer, Artist
"The lifestyle that an artist can have, the freedom to wander in the landscape with no real pressure or deadlines, was a very attractive one"
John Dyer, Artist
"Painting is really good fun, I have always enjoyed it. As long as I paint what I want with the freedom that I enjoy, I never tire"
John Dyer, Artist
"I use a wide selection of colours. It is impossible to produce work like mine using only the primary colours as they only mix a certain range of colour"
John Dyer, Artist
"Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing"
Salvador Dali, Artist
"Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality"
Salvador Dali, Artist
"It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture"
Tom Stoppard, Dramatist
"I dream of painting and then I paint my dream"
Vincent Van Gogh, Artist
"Art matters"
Barbara Januszkiewicz, Artist
"Be drawn to the visual arts, for it can expand your imagination"
Barbara Januszkiewicz, Artist
"I feel I'm anonymous in my work. When I look at the pictures, I never see myself; they aren't self-portraits. Sometimes I disappear"
Cindy Sherman, Photographer
"Everyone thinks these are self-portraits, but they aren't meant to be. I just use myself as a model because I know I can push myself to extremes, make each shot as ugly or goofy or silly as possible"
Cindy Sherman, Photographer
"Art is the close scrutiny of reality and therefore I put on the stage only those things that I know happen in our society"
Edward Bond, Playwright
"If I have a style, I am not aware of it"
Michael Graves, Architect
"The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution"
Paul Cezanne, Artist
"Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization"
Lincoln Steffens, Journalist
"A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous"
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Architect
"I think a painting is more like the real world if it's made out the real world"
Robert Rauschenberg, Artist
"True originality consists not in a new manner, but in a new vision"
Edith Wharton, Author
"Space has always been the spiritual dimension of architecture. It is not the physical statement of the structure so much as what it contains that moves us"
Arthur Erickson, Architect
"Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love"
Louis Kahn, Architect
"If a building becomes architecture, then it is art"
Arne Jacobsen, Architect
"Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth"
Cyril Connolly, Journalist
"My attitude towards drawing is not necessarily about drawing. It's about making the best kind of image I can make, it's about talking as clearly as I can"
Jim Dine, Artist
"I want people to be drawn into the space of the work. And a lot of people are like me in that they have relatively short attention spans. So I shoot for the window of opportunity"
Barbara Kruger, Artist
"The more specific you are, the more general it'll be"
Diane Arbus, Photographer
"All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music"
Walter Pater, Critic
"All gardening is landscape painting"
William Kent, Architect
"Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do"
Edgar Degas, Artist
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