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“I'm a study of a man in chaos in search of frenzy.”
Oscar Levant Quotes |
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“You know... that a blank wall is an apalling thing to look at. The wall of a museum - a canvas - a piece of film - or a guy sitting in front of a typewriter. Then, you start out to do something - that vague thing called creation. The beginning strikes awe within you.”
Edward Steichen Quotes |
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“Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.”
Edward Steichen Quotes |
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“Anyone who contributes to the defense fund
of pornographers is a mental moonbeam.”
Mike Royko Quotes |
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“From the shore.. one looks
upward to the sanddune grass..
10,000
green brushes attempting
where they laid
to paint the blue sky
jade.”
Saiom Shriver Quotes |
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“Why should I paint dead fish, onions and beer glasses? Girls are so much prettier.”
Marie Laurencin Quotes |
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“Rice Krispies happens to be one of my favorite junk foods, just as I regard Michener as superior among junk writers.”
Christopher Lehmann-haupt Quotes |
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“The fact that writers will go through so much to remain writers says something, perhaps everything. It would be far easier (and nearly always more profitable) to become a real estate agent.”
Maria Lenhart Quotes |
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“Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath.”
Oscar Levant Quotes |
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“Giving jazz the Congressional seal of approval is a little like making Huck Finn an honorary Boy Scout.”
Melvin Maddocks Quotes |
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“All autobiography is self-indulgent.”
Daphne Du Maurier Quotes |
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“The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist.”
Henry Mille Quotes |
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“The choirs left the main tune and soared two octaves past heaven in a descant to rattle the bones and surge the heart.”
Henry Mitchell Quotes |
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“A great artist is always before his time or behind it.”
George Moore Quotes |
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“I am for an art that is political-erotical-mystical, that does something other than sit on its ass in a museum.”
Claes Oldenburg Quotes |
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“Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.”
Marcel Proust Quotes |
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“Anyone who says you can't see a thought simply doesn't know art.”
Wynetka Ann Reynolds Quotes |
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“I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.”
Auguste Rodin Quotes |
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“What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art.”
Augustus Saint-Gaudens Quotes |
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“To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.”
Robert Schumann Quotes |
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“Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.”
Edward Steichen Quotes |
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“The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.”
Paul Strand Quotes |
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“I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.”
Barbra Streisand Quotes |
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“Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.”
Twyla Tharp Quotes |
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“Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.”
Lionel Trilling Quotes |
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