Art Quotes - Page 31

• A window covered with raindrops interests me more than a photograph of a famous person.

  Saul Leiter

  Beauty, Photography, Portraits

  "In No Great Hurry: Film Review" by John DeFore, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 6, 2014.

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• However fake the subject, once photographed, it's as good as real.

  Hiroshi Sugimoto

  Photography, Real, Fake

  "Eerie yet gorgeous scenes make taxidermy spring to life" by Alyssa Coppelman, www.wired.com. January 13, 2015.

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• Studio Ghosts: When you're in the studio painting, there are a lot of people in there with you - your teachers, friends, painters from history, critics... and one by one if you're really painting, they walk out. And if you're really painting YOU walk out.

  Philip Guston

  Inspirational, Teacher, People

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• With the most primitive means the artist creates something which the most ingenious and efficient technology will never be able to create.

  Kazimir Malevich

  Creativity, Mean, Technology

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• I question the negative connotations of fabric, of ribbon, of lace. I turn these symbols of our imprisonment around.

  Miriam Schapiro

  Quilts, Women, Symbolism

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• There is a thing about beauty. Beauty is always associated with the male fantasy of what the female body is. I don’t think there is anything wrong with beauty. It’s just what women think is beautiful can be different. And there can be a beauty in individualism. If there is a wart or a scar, this can be beautiful, in a sense, when you paint it.

  Jenny Saville

  Inspirational, Beauty, Beautiful

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• I try to make images that have the immediate presence we take for granted in objects - a chair, a shoe, a book, a Judd - and compose them like sentences.

  Michael Craig-Martin

  Book, Shoes, Taken For Granted

  Source: briansherwin-artcritic.blogspot.com

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• Anyone interested in design must be interested in other fields of expression - theater, ballet, photography, literature, music.

  Lester Beall

  Inspirational, Dance, Photography

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• I would like to show the world today as an ant sees it and tomorrow as the moon sees it.

  Hannah Hoch

  Inspirational, Moon, World

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• Music takes us where words cannot.

  Henry Winkler

  Music, Comedian, Filmmaker

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• I draw manga, therefore I am!

  Hiromu Arakawa

  Drawing, Painter, Draws

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• The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word.

  Mata Hari

  Love, Dance, Women

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• Writing is easy. Just sit in front of a typewriter, open up a vein and bleed it out drop by drop.

  Red Smith

  Writing, Typewriters, Blood

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• The pictures are there, and you just take them.

  Robert Capa

  Photography, Photojournalism, Capture

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• Drawings help people to work out intricate relationships between parts.

  Christopher Alexander

  Inspirational, Relationship, Drawing

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• Where words fail, music speaks.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Inspirational, Music, Guitar

  Hans Christian Andersen (1876). “Stories for the Young”

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• Music is the space between the notes.

  Claude Debussy

  Music, Weekend, Silence

  "Turning Numbers into Knowledge: Mastering the Art of Problem Solving". Book by Jonathan G. Koomey (p. 96), 2001.

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• My work is a game, a very serious game.

  M. C. Escher

  Work, Games, Serious

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• Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.

  Walker Evans

  Photography, Eye, Thoughtful

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• I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Inspirational, Good Night, Thinking

  Vincent van Gogh (1959). “Complete Letters: With Reproductions of All the Drawings in the Correspondence”

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• Dance is the hidden langauge of the soul, of the body.

  Martha Graham

  Inspirational, Dance, Ballet Class

  "Martha Graham Reflects on Her Art and a Life in Dance". archive.nytimes.com. March 31, 1985.

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• Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

  Victor Hugo

  Music, Wisdom, Healing

  Victor Hugo (2016). “William Shakespeare”, p.62, Library of Alexandria

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• Do you know why language manifests itself the way it does in my work? It's because I understand short attention spans.

  Barbara Kruger

  Expression, Doe, Attention

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  Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.

  Dorothea Lange

  Inspirational, Life, Change

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  Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.

  Steve Martin

  Funny, Music, Dance

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