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"I apply paint directly from the tube and with my fingers"
John Dyer, Artist
"If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents"
Robert Browning, Poet
"A picture is a poem without words"
Horace, Poet
"Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them"
William Wordsworth, Poet
"Rules and models destroy genius and art"
William Hazlitt, Critic
"The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life"
William Faulkner, Novelist
"Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks"
Plutarch, Philosopher
"An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness"
Henry Miller, Writer
"Art expresses man"
Shinichi Suzuki, Musician
"I wanted to be a painter"
Max Cannon, Artist
"I was doing illustration work, and the cartooning slowly took over"
Max Cannon, Artist
"As soon as I can afford a studio space, I'll paint again"
Max Cannon, Artist
"I hope to actually get back to painting someday... soon. I sort of transitioned into cartooning from painting"
Max Cannon, Artist
"I only understand realism"
Manuel Puig, Author
"I am very interested in what has been called bad taste. I believe the fear of displaying a soi-disant bad taste stops us from venturing into special cultural zones"
Manuel Puig, Author
"We work n the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art"
Henry James, Writer
"It's happened time and time again, but the committee has always decided against it-the work was too conservative or didn't fit within the budget; there are millions of different reasons"
Tracey Emin, Artist
"I've been slagged off completely by the art world"
Tracey Emin, Artist
"There is nothing difficult about my work, and people get to hear it from me"
Tracey Emin, Artist
"The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes"
Susan Sontag, Author
"As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people to take possession of space in which they are insecure"
Susan Sontag, Author
"Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are"
Susan Sontag, Author
"I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day"
Vincent Van Gogh, Artist
"The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art"
E. M. Forster, Novelist
"It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures"
Vincent Van Gogh, Artist
"I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things"
Henri Matisse, Artist
"Creativity takes courage"
Henri Matisse, Artist
"Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts, he does not hide; he exposes himself"
Rodney Dangerfield, Comedian
"The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways"
Ansel Adams, Photographer
"Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution"
Ansel Adams, Photographer
"In my mind's eye, I visualize how a particular... sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes from a lot of practice"
Ansel Adams, Photographer
"Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships"
Ansel Adams, Photographer
"Art resides in the quality of doing, process is not magic"
Charles Eames, Designer
"Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern"
Alfred North Whitehead, Mathematician
"I'm very into the first production of the show"
Beth Henley, Playwright
"The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails"
James Joyce, Novelist
"What I loved about the acting class was that you got to think all day long about a person that wasn't you, and figure out why they were sad and what they wanted, what they dreamed"
Beth Henley, Playwright
"The most glorious thing about working in the collaborative art is when you have somebody like Susan Kingsley or Kathy Bates who are better than your play"
Beth Henley, Playwright
"A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself"
Abraham Maslow, Psychologist
"Then I decided to draw from and on my own imagination, and everything came out perfect"
Jack Prelutsky, Poet
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