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"To emphasize only the beautiful seems to me to be like a mathematical system that only concerns itself with positive numbers"
Paul Klee, Artist
"The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art"
Paul Klee, Artist
"In the final analysis, a drawing simply is no longer a drawing, no matter how self-sufficient its execution may be. It is a symbol, and the more profoundly the imaginary lines of projection meet higher dimensions, the better"
Paul Klee, Artist
"The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions"
Paul Klee, Artist
"Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see"
Paul Klee, Artist
"One must be a living man and a posthumous artist"
Jean Cocteau, Director
"Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious"
Jean Cocteau, Director
"When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work"
Jean Cocteau, Director
"There are too many souls of wood not to love those wooden characters who do indeed have a soul"
Jean Cocteau, Director
"Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail"
Jean Cocteau, Director
"An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture"
Jean Cocteau, Director
"The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: That is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up"
Jean Cocteau, Director
"An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original"
Jean Cocteau, Director
"There are times when the writers ask us to improvise. Sometimes the animators are inspired by what you do, and sometimes you are inspired by what the animators do"
Dan Castellaneta, Actor
"I often say, if I wasn't part of the show I'd be a huge fan of it"
Dan Castellaneta, Actor
"I was always a singer and a dancer, and I always wanted to be an actress. For me, it's all just one thing"
Jennifer Lopez, Musician
"I've never been able to say I've been influenced by a list of artists I like, because I like thousands and thousands, and I've been influenced in some way by all of them"
Jack Nicholson, Actor
"An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along"
Andre Maurois, Writer
"The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite"
Henry Ellis, Psychologist
"Style is the hallmark of a temperament stamped upon the material at hand"
Andre Maurois, Writer
"Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself"
Henry Ellis, Psychologist
"When you stand on the stage, you must have a sense that you are addressing the whole world, and that what you say is so important the whole world must listen"
Stella Adler, Actress
"I'm not so facile that I can accomplish or find out what I want to know, or explore enough of the possibilities and a way of making a painting, say, in just one painting or two paintings"
Robert Rauschenberg, Artist
"Yeah, we pretty much had a form and a shape by that time - a style - and I think one of the advantages of not having any relationship to any other puppeteer was that it gave me a reason to put those together myself for the needs of television"
Jim Henson, Entertainer
"Well, Detroit Institute is kind of a key - probably the largest permanent collection of puppets in the US"
Jim Henson, Entertainer
"That difficult place to put your finger on about the world - it needs to be illustrated"
Elisabeth Rohm, Actress
"I don't mess around with my subconscious"
Robert Rauschenberg, Artist
"I was very interested in theatre, mostly in stage design. I did a little bit of acting"
Jim Henson, Entertainer
"At the University of Maryland, my first year, I started off planning to major in art because I was interested in theatre design, stage design, or television design"
Jim Henson, Entertainer
"Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does"
John Berger, Artist
"Anything that had to do with art, I been doing all my life. It was a gift. It's nothing I work real hard at doing"
Erykah Badu, Musician
"The hardened mass of liquid stones had much stronger qualities than those which had simply torn. The skin remained a recognisable part of the molten stone"
Andy Goldsworthy, Artist
"The early firings contained many stones"
Andy Goldsworthy, Artist
"Some of the snowballs have a kind of animal energy. Not just because of the materials inside them, but in the way that they appear caged, captured"
Andy Goldsworthy, Artist
"I did tests on small stones before collecting and committing myself to the larger ones"
Andy Goldsworthy, Artist
"My art is an attempt to reach beyond the surface appearance. I want to see growth in wood, time in stone, nature in a city, and I do not mean its parks, but a deeper understanding that a city is nature too-the ground upon which it is built, the stone with which it is made"
Andy Goldsworthy, Artist
"The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see the truth about life and the social situation"
Stella Adler, Actress
"One way we can enliven the imagination is to push it toward the illogical. We're not scientists. We don't always have to make the logical, reasonable leap"
Stella Adler, Actress
"The theatre is a spiritual and social X-ray of its time"
Stella Adler, Actress
"Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home"
Gwendolyn Brooks, Poet
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