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"If I had the energy, I would have done it all over the county"
Edward Hopper, Artist
"I find in working always the disturbing intrusion of elements not a part of my most interested vision, and the inevitable obliteration and replacement of this vision by the work itself as it proceeds"
Edward Hopper, Artist
"The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms. Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him"
Auguste Rodin, Sculptor
"Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight"
Auguste Rodin, Sculptor
"There is a sort of elation about sunlight on the upper part of a house"
Edward Hopper, Artist
"I have tried to present my sensations in what is the most congenial and impressive form possible to me"
Edward Hopper, Artist
"I find linseed oil and white lead the most satisfactory mediums"
Edward Hopper, Artist
"I believe that the great painters with their intellect as master have attempted to force this unwilling medium of paint and canvas into a record of their emotions"
Edward Hopper, Artist
"Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world"
Edward Hopper, Artist
"Man's naked form belongs to no particular moment in history; it is eternal, and can be looked upon with joy by the people of all ages"
Auguste Rodin, Sculptor
"The concept of commercialism in the fashion and art world is looked down upon. You know, just to think, 'What amount of creativity does it take to make something that masses of people like?' And, 'How does creativity apply across the board?'"
Kanye West, Musician
"I think that the ideal space must contain elements of magic, serenity, sorcery and mystery"
Luis Barragan, Architect
"I'm an artist and that means I can be as egotistical as I want to be"
Lou Reed, Musician
"It is essential to an architect to know how to see: I mean to see in such a way that the vision is not overpowered by rational analysis"
Luis Barragan, Architect
"What men are among the other formations of the earth, artists are among men"
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, Poet
"The image is an image"
Lenny Kravitz, Musician
"Part of being an artist is being willing to be shocked, being willing to be surprised, being willing to be hurt"
Holly Near, Musician
"Language is like songs, like food, like dance-it is the expression of what we think"
Holly Near, Musician
"A lot of artists say, I'm not political. People are afraid of this word"
Holly Near, Musician
"Animators have to live life 24 times as long as we do - every 24 frames of a second"
Darren Aronofsky, Director
"I'm not a comic book guy at all"
Darren Aronofsky, Director
"Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea"
John Ciardi, Dramatist
"In fact, one was so booked out we went from March and were to go till November, but the pantomime was booked so they transferred the show to the Prince of Wales Theatre because it was so packed out, and it ran on from there"
Norman Wisdom, Comedian
"What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement"
Edward Albee, Dramatist
"The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative, and that is all there is to it"
Edward Albee, Dramatist
"One must let the play happen to one; one must let the mind loose to respond as it will, to receive impressions, to sense rather than know, to gather rather than immediately understand"
Edward Albee, Dramatist
"Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do"
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, Poet
"An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind"
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, Poet
"All the classical genres are now ridiculous in their rigorous purity"
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, Poet
"A sculpture is just a painting cut out and stood up somewhere"
Frank Stella, Artist
"To be an actor, a true actor, you have to be brokenhearted"
Shia LaBeouf, Actor
"No matter how much we scorn it, kitsch is an integral part of the human condition"
Milan Kundera, Writer
"I don't like to say I have given my life to art. I prefer to say art has given me my life"
Frank Stella, Artist
"I took to wearing a black tie known as the Ascot, with long drooping ends. I had seen pictures of painters, sculptors, poets wearing this style of tie"
Carl Sandburg, Poet
"There is but one way left to save a classic: to give up revering him and use him for our own salvation"
Jose Ortega Y Gasset, Philosopher
"It's a project that touched me as an immigrant and as a New Yorker"
Daniel Libeskind, Architect
"I've always been someone who really watches other people, human behavior. To watch it and be able to express it through your version has always been really exciting to me"
Christina Hendricks, Actress
"Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness"
George Jean Nathan, Editor
"I just wish the crowd I was associated with was more passionate about what they were doing and less consumed with the commerce of the art form"
Shia LaBeouf, Actor
"Architecture can't fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality, but you need to put some of that turmoil into the architecture, or it isn't real"
Frank Stella, Artist
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