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"Retro looking stuff, but a lot of these guys doing these shows are my age or younger. I was just disgusted. I hated being around that kind of thing. Not that it affected what I did because when it comes down to it, I was doing my own show"
Jhonen Vasquez, Cartoonist
"I look out the window sometimes to seek the color of the shadows and the different greens in the trees, but when I get ready to paint, I just close my eyes and imagine a scene"
Grandma Moses, Artist
"I think that an artist is a bit like a computer. He receives information from the world around him and from his past and from his own experiences. And it all goes into the brain"
Gerald Scarfe, Artist
"Audiences are the same all over the world, and if you entertain them, they'll respond"
Liza Minnelli, Actress
"When you start out, you're not really aware. I didn't have a sense of photographic history"
Herb Ritts, Photographer
"That's why I felt so at home when I went to Africa. It didn't matter that I was halfway around the world in a foreign country, because all those elements are universal. And I think that's one thing about my work: It's universal"
Herb Ritts, Photographer
"Regardless of whether you speak the language or are familiar with a culture, the picture should hold up"
Herb Ritts, Photographer
"I don't know about liberal bias, but people of a liberal mentality are probably attracted in greater numbers to the arts than people of a conservative mentality"
Sydney Pollack, Director
"I made one untitled piece"
Damien Hirst, Artist
"But I am a lover of all kinds of art. And I just can't stick to one thing. I guess I could if I made myself, but I'd always be looking the other way for other things"
Andre Benjamin, Musician
"The creation continues incessantly through the media of man"
Antonio Gaudi, Architect
"Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure"
Willem de Kooning, Artist
"I just loved being in the theatre with all those crazy, creative people"
Kristin Davis, Actress
"I just try to touch people's hearts in a way through skating, so they're not just witnessing a performance, they're feeling a performance and they're a part of it"
Scott Hamilton, Athlete
"I like working on stage because there's something very immediate about it, that interaction with an audience where you immediately hear their reaction, or feel them, whether they're with you"
Saffron Burrows, Actress
"I could have been an architect, but I don't think I'd have been very happy. Nearly all modern architecture is a silly game as far as I can see"
Roger Waters, Musician
"I paint from the top down. From the sky, then the mountains, then the hills, then the houses, then the cattle, and then the people"
Grandma Moses, Artist
"The fashions of the ages vary in this direction and that, but they vary for the most part from a central road which was struck out by the imagination of Greece"
Gilbert Murray, Diplomat
"You know it's my job to visualize what is literal or audible, so I designed all the characters, and I designed what they do and how they should do it and so on"
Gerald Scarfe, Artist
"It may have lost its special-ness forever, and the clubs might not being doing well, but I think standup is in the best shape it has been in a long time"
Marc Maron, Entertainer
"I think that standup has always been an acquired taste and there was always only a handful of performers that were really inspired"
Marc Maron, Entertainer
"A photo is a creation"
Eva Herzigova, Model
"The demand for standup in the eighties was created by how easy it was to exploit 'comedians' and create very cheap television programming"
Marc Maron, Entertainer
"As a performer, you are being used to keep people watching, so the commercial endorsements that support the network can be seen by as many people as possible"
Marc Maron, Entertainer
"Beauty is first and foremost an emotion"
Tahar Ben Jelloun, Poet
"There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain"
Georges Braque, Artist
"Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas"
Georges Braque, Artist
"Good art provides people with a vocabulary about things they can't articulate"
Mos Def, Musician
"One of the advantages of appearing in such a play is that you begin to understand it properly, I feel Ophelia's tragedy was that she had been so used by everybody and felt that she bore a great burden of guilt"
Lalla Ward, Actor
"I think an ashtray is the most fantastically real thing"
Damien Hirst, Artist
"Artists are like everybody else"
Damien Hirst, Artist
"I liked tap because I liked hearing the results of my movements"
Suzanne Farrell, Dancer
"I discovered very early that it wasn't quite enough for me to imitate people"
Cecil Taylor, Musician
"You can find more traditional Shakespeare than we do. But what we want to bring to these works is energy, passion, freshness"
John Bradshaw, Philosopher
"I have always known what I wanted, and that was beauty... in every form"
Joan Crawford, Actress
"That crossover of whether it's entertainment or news is the biggest crock of b.s. in television today, because it's all entertainment"
Vince McMahon, Entertainer
"I rarely drink, I don't smoke, so my vice is probably creating. I'm addicted to creating. And women"
Andre Benjamin, Musician
"Hopefully standup will become special again"
Marc Maron, Entertainer
"Most regular superhero books are designed to go on forever; of course, very few of them do, but the point is they are trying to throw mud against the wall and hope it will stick, and most of it slides off"
Garth Ennis, Writer
"The real actor has a direct line to the collective heart"
Sam Rayburn, Politician
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