Arts, Media & Entertainment: Art Quotes

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"Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? No. Just as one can never learn how to paint"

Pablo Picasso, Artist

"The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense"

Pablo Picasso, Artist

"One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail"

Pablo Picasso, Artist

"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life"

Pablo Picasso, Artist

"Art is the elimination of the unnecessary"

Pablo Picasso, Artist

"All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up"

Pablo Picasso, Artist

"To draw you must close your eyes and sing"

Pablo Picasso, Artist

"Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen"

Pablo Picasso, Artist

"If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him"

John F. Kennedy, President

"There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion"

Francis Bacon, Philosopher

"The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express"

Francis Bacon, Philosopher

"Art is not a thing; it is a way"

Elbert Hubbard, Writer

"I often say that in making dances I can make a world where I think things are done morally, done democratically, done honestly"

Twyla Tharp, Dancer

"With each piece I've completed, I have worked to make it intact, and each of them has been an equal high. It's like children. A mother refuses to pick out one as a favorite, and I can't do any better with the dances"

Twyla Tharp, Dancer

"I never studied with Balanchine, but his work was very important to me"

Twyla Tharp, Dancer

"A lot of people insisted on a wall between modern dance and ballet. I'm beginning to think that walls are very unhealthy things"

Twyla Tharp, Dancer

"I would have to challenge the term, modern dance. I don't really use that term in relation to my work. I simply think of it as dancing. I think of it as moving"

Twyla Tharp, Dancer

"I don't mean this, but I'm going to say it anyway. I don't really think of pop art and serious art as being that far apart"

Twyla Tharp, Dancer

"Dance has never been a particularly easy life, and everybody knows that"

Twyla Tharp, Dancer

"The rewards of dancing are very different from choreographing"

Twyla Tharp, Dancer

"When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece"

John Ruskin, Writer

"Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed"

Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect

"All objects, all phases of culture, are alive. They have voices. They speak of their history and interrelatedness. And they are all talking at once!"

Camille Paglia, Author

"Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the West's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth"

Camille Paglia, Author

"Heaven help the American-born boy with a talent for ballet"

Camille Paglia, Author

"Rule of art: Can't kills creativity!"

Camille Paglia, Author

"The 1990s, after the reign of terror of academic vandalism, will be a decade of restoration: restoration of meaning, value, beauty, pleasure, and emotion to art and restoration of art to its audience"

Camille Paglia, Author

"Art is anything you can get away with"

Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist

"Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art"

Leonardo da Vinci, Artist

"The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest"

Gustave Flaubert, Novelist

"I really enjoy squeezing out a big lump of paint directly onto the canvas and leaving it: fresh, immediate, and sometimes shocking"

John Dyer, Artist

"I paint what I see, not what a camera would see"

John Dyer, Artist

"I decided to become a painter when my first four paintings where all published and attracted a great deal of interest. I exhibited one of them and it was sold"

John Dyer, Artist

"The paintings by Van Gough and Chagall had a big influence on me"

John Dyer, Artist

"Digital media has destroyed much of the magic and mystery of the medium"

John Dyer, Artist

"I was told I was talented when I applied to Falmouth School of Art, and that I should consider skipping the course and proceeding directly to degree level"

John Dyer, Artist

"During the winter, when the weather is too poor to work outside, I do use drawings and photographs, but I change my work so it is not just a time and place study"

John Dyer, Artist

"The majority of my work is from life. I spend most fine days from May to October painting outside"

John Dyer, Artist

"I use about 20 different colours to retain the luminance in my work"

John Dyer, Artist

"I have improved the way in which I paint. The colours are cleaner and there is more energy in the brush work"

John Dyer, Artist

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