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"I always knew would be some sort of artist, but didn't know what"
Jack Prelutsky, Poet
"There is nothing new in art except talent"
Anton Chekhov, Dramatist
"A masterpiece... may be unwelcome but it is never dull"
Gertrude Stein, Author
"Well, what I'm doing is really clothing. I'm not doing sculpture"
Issey Miyake, Designer
"I sent 200, 300 of the clothes that I had made, and the dancers chose what they liked"
Issey Miyake, Designer
"Jazz vision for me is seeing my art in musical term. It offers me an visual expressions in an ever-changing musical palette"
Barbara Januszkiewicz, Artist
"Imagination needs to be fed"
Barbara Januszkiewicz, Artist
"I'll see a photograph of a character and try to copy them on to my face. I think I'm really observant, and thinking how a person is put together, seeing them on the street and noticing subtle things about them that make them who they are"
Cindy Sherman, Photographer
"My life is art. It's how I express God"
Lisa Bonet, Actress
"I have a desire to create more film, more beauty, more art, more love, but I don't feel desperate. It's not about creating or building a career"
Lisa Bonet, Actress
"Art is the most beautiful of all lies"
Claude Debussy, Composer
"When you see a fish, you don't think of its scales, do you? You think of its speed, its floating, flashing body seen through the water... If I made fins and eyes and scales, I would arrest its movement, give a pattern or shape of reality. I want just the flash of its spirit"
Constantin Brancusi, Sculptor
"I don't analyze what I'm doing. I've read convincing interpretations of my work, and sometimes I've noticed something that I wasn't aware of, but I think, at this point, people read into my work out of habit. Or I'm just very, very smart"
Cindy Sherman, Photographer
"Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal"
Igor Stravinsky, Composer
"The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution"
Igor Stravinsky, Composer
"The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly"
J.D. Salinger, Novelist
"Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart"
Martha Graham, Dancer
"Many plays - certainly mine - are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them"
Thornton Wilder, Writer
"Nowadays, there are sometimes more producers than there are people in the cast, because it takes that much money to put a show on"
Stephen Sondheim, Composer
"I've always liked Playboy; I think it's very tasteful"
Trishelle Cannatella, Celebrity
"I have no requirements for a style of architecture"
Michael Graves, Architect
"Art may imitate life, but life imitates TV"
Ani DiFranco, Musician
"We live in a rainbow of chaos"
Paul Cezanne, Artist
"An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all"
Paul Cezanne, Artist
"Keep good company - that is, go to the Louvre"
Paul Cezanne, Artist
"People who don't like me talk about it as though I'm trash because I have tattoos. I find that insane because it's 2008, not the 1950s. Tattoos aren't limited to sailors. It's a form of art I find beautiful. I love it!"
Megan Fox, Actress
"The pictures are there, and you just take them"
Robert Capa, Photographer
"I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration"
Frida Kahlo, Painter
"You can't pretend that everybody likes Versace. It would be boring. It's better to create a reaction than to create no reaction. That's dangerous"
Donatella Versace, Designer
"Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas"
Donatella Versace, Designer
"The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled"
Denis Diderot, Editor
"The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has"
Michelangelo, Artist
"When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away"
Harold Macmillan, Politician
"I didn't think there was anything more or less obscene about any part of the body. Now, I recognize that there are certain postures and angles that make people see red, which are evidence of original sin or something, and I avoid that"
Jock Sturges, Photographer
"A man paints with his brains and not with his hands"
Michelangelo, Artist
"There is a role and function for beauty in our time"
Tadao Ando, Architect
"Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad the heart of man"
Ezra Pound, Poet
"I stress the uniqueness of the Australian landscape and its metaphysical and mythic content"
Arthur Boyd, Artist
"Whoever controls the media, the images, controls the culture"
Allen Ginsberg, Poet
"Art doesn't alter things. It points things out, but it doesn't alter them. It can't, no matter what a painter wants to do"
Arthur Boyd, Artist
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