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"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
"As an actress, emotions are my business, my stock-in-trade. As such, I've dealt with them nearly all my life"
Loretta Young, Actress
"The jargon of sculptors is beyond me. I do not know precisely why I admire a green granite female, apparently pregnant, monster with one eye going around a square corner"
Ezra Pound, Poet
"Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts"
Ezra Pound, Poet
"Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household"
Erica Jong, Novelist
"All great art is born of the metropolis"
Ezra Pound, Poet
"A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression"
Ezra Pound, Poet
"If a patron buys from an artist who needs money, the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates"
Ezra Pound, Poet
"But the one thing you should. Not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY"
Ezra Pound, Poet
"We're going to shoot one Polaroid per show. I'm going to sign this before it even develops because I know that once it develops with my signature on it, it's worth a fortune. I'll make this a work of magic warlock art"
Charlie Sheen, Actor
"To me, acting is the most logical way for people's neuroses to manifest themselves, in this great need we all have to express ourselves"
James Dean, Actor
"An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so must be willing to accept all the experiences life has to offer. In fact, he must seek out more of life than life puts at his feet"
James Dean, Actor
"The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before"
Neil Gaiman, Author
"The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate"
John Keats, Poet
"Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works"
John Keats, Poet
"Acting isn't really a creative profession. It's an interpretative one"
Paul Newman, Actor
"To be an actor you have to be a child"
Paul Newman, Actor
"The painter... does not fit the paints to the world. He most certainly does not fit the world to himself. He fits himself to the paint. The self is the servant who bears the paintbox and its inherited contents"
Annie Dillard, Author
"Ultimately Warhol's private moral reference was to the supreme kitsch of the Catholic Church"
Allen Ginsberg, Poet
"Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth"
Adrienne Rich, Poet
"I get a kick out of being an outsider constantly. It allows me to be creative"
Bill Hicks, Comedian
"A dress must be engineered as carefully as a building"
Mainbocher, Designer
"Could five hundred men have painted the Sistine Chapel?"
Bill Lear, Inventor
"To be a surrealist means barring from your mind all remembrance of what you have seen, and being always on the lookout for what has never been"
Rene Magritte, Artist
"Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist"
Rene Magritte, Artist
"The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid; the state of being alone"
James Baldwin, Educator
"You are born an artist or you are not. And you stay an artist, dear, even if your voice is less of a fireworks. The artist is always there"
Maria Callas, Musician
"Years ago - in the 70s, for about a decade - I carried a camera every place I went. And I shot a lot of pictures that were still life and landscape, using available light"
Leonard Nimoy, Actor
"You know, for a long time I have been of the opinion that artists don't necessarily know what they're doing. You don't necessarily know what kind of universal concept you're tapping into"
Leonard Nimoy, Actor
"All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography"
Federico Fellini, Director
"My painting is visible images which conceal nothing... They evoke mystery and, indeed, when one sees one of my pictures, one asks oneself this simple question 'What does that mean?' It does not mean anything, because mystery means nothing either, it is unknowable"
Rene Magritte, Artist
"Life obliges me to do something, so I paint"
Rene Magritte, Artist
"Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers"
Nathaniel Hawthorne, Novelist
"Which is probably the reason why I work exclusively in black and white... to highlight that contrast"
Leonard Nimoy, Actor
"My memory of those places is better than my pictures. That's why I get much more satisfaction out of shooting thematic work that has to do with an idea that I'm searching for, or searching to express"
Leonard Nimoy, Actor
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