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"My movement from painting to film was a very conscious one"
Kathryn Bigelow, Director
"Beauty: the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole"
Leon Battista Alberti, Architect
"When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a get acquainted period that I see what I've been about. I've no fears about making changes, for the painting has a life of its own"
Jackson Pollock, Artist
"One often thinks that using 2 different things like visual and sound lead to 2 different conclusions - to a different content - but in, in my case it is all one"
Alva Noto, Artist
"Pictures can and do make a difference. Strong images of historical events do have an impact on society. They can help with change"
Charles Moore, Writer
"I wanted to learn how to paint rather than just doing black-and-white work"
Bill Sienkiewicz, Artist
"Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural"
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher
"Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs"
Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer
"All art is but imitation of nature"
Seneca the Younger, Statesman
"Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?"
Pablo Picasso, Artist
"I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them"
Pablo Picasso, Artist
"I do not seek. I find"
Pablo Picasso, Artist
"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up"
Pablo Picasso, Artist
"A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession"
Albert Camus, Philosopher
"Acting is happy agony"
Jean-Paul Sartre, Philosopher
"To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity"
Thomas Edison, Inventor
"There's this expression called postmodernism, which is kind of silly, and destroys a perfectly good word called modern, which now no longer means anything"
Twyla Tharp, Dancer
"Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth"
John Ruskin, Writer
"All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness"
John Ruskin, Writer
"It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least"
Robert Browning Hamilton, Writer
"Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity"
Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect
"Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century"
Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist
"A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left"
Alexander Pope, Poet
"Art lies by its own artifice"
Ovid, Poet
"There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection"
H.G. Wells, Author
"I have lived in Cornwall from the age of 4, so I have always been aware of the artistic heritage that the county has. I feel very proud to be able to connect to this"
John Dyer, Artist
"There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt"
Audre Lorde, Poet
"Art exists for the human species. I think that all of the people who love art, those who teach art, and all of you should burn with the obligation to save the world"
Shinichi Suzuki, Musician
"I thought it would be my one and only exhibition, so I decided to call it My Major Retrospective"
Tracey Emin, Artist
"A good picture is equivalent to a good deed"
Vincent Van Gogh, Artist
"There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer"
Ansel Adams, Photographer
"The task of art today is to bring chaos into order"
Theodor Adorno, Philosopher
"You see it in the many bouncing clothes that are not just pleats. To make them, two or three people twist them - twist, twist, twist the pleats, sometimes three or four persons twist together and put it all in the machine to cook it"
Issey Miyake, Designer
"Beauty must appeal to the senses, must provide us with immediate enjoyment, must impress us or insinuate itself into us without any effort on our part"
Claude Debussy, Composer
"I'm really just using the mirror to summon something I don't even know until I see it"
Cindy Sherman, Photographer
"I am interested in mathematics only as a creative art"
G. H. Hardy, Mathematician
"In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty"
Christopher Morley, Author
"I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time"
David Bowie, Musician
"If your pictures aren't good enough, you aren't close enough"
Robert Capa, Photographer
"What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed?"
Michelangelo, Artist
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