Art Quotes - Page 31

• 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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• Dance training can't be separate from life training. Everything that comes into our lives is training. The qualities we admire in great dancing are the same qualities we admire in human beings: honesty, courage, fearlessness, generosity, wisdom, depth, compassion,and humanity.

  Alonzo King

  Life, Dance, Wisdom

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• An artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way

  Charles Bukowski

  Simple, Men, Novelists

  Charles Bukowski, David Stephen Calonne (2013). “More Notes of a Dirty Old Man: The Uncollected Columns”, p.240, City Lights Books

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• My belief is that it is most important for an artist to develop an approach and philosophy about life - if he has developed this philosophy, he does not put paint on canvas, he puts himself on canvas.

  Jacob Lawrence

  Life, Philosophy, African American

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• Pictures just come to my mind and I tell my heart to go ahead.

  Horace Pippin

  Mind, Painting, Pippin

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• 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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• You can't sit around and wait for somebody to say who you are. You need to write it and paint it and do it

  Faith Ringgold

  Writing, Waiting, Needs

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• Only photography has been able to divide human life
  into a series of moments, each of them has the value of a complete existence.

  Eadweard Muybridge

  Life, Photography, Able

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• Music is the thousandth of a millisecond between one note and another; how you get from one to the other-that's where the music is.

  Isaac Stern

  Music, Notes, Violinist

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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 pictures are there, and you just take them.

  Robert Capa

  Photography, Photojournalism, Capture

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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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• We speak of concrete and not abstract painting because nothing is more concrete, more real than a line, a color, a surface.

  Theo van Doesburg

  Real, Color, Abstract Painting

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• In order to educate man to a new longing, everyday familiar objects must be shown to him with totally unexpected perspectives and in unexpected situations. New objects should be depicted from different sides in order to provide a complete impression of the object.

  Alexander Rodchenko

  Men, Order, Perspective

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

  Christopher Alexander

  Inspirational, Relationship, Drawing

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• Never stop looking, no matter where you are, everywhere there are good photographs

  Art Wolfe

  Photography, Stopping, Matter

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• We think of photography as pictures. And it is. But I think of photography as ideas. And do the pictures sustain your ideas or are they just good pictures? I want to have an experience in the world that is a deepening experience, that makes me feel alive and awake and conscious.

  Joel Meyerowitz

  Photography, Thinking, Ideas

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• The artist constructs a new symbol with his brush. This symbol is not a recognizable form of anything which is already finished, already made, already existing in the world - it is a symbol of a new world, which is being built upon and which exists by way of people.

  El Lissitzky

  People, World, Way

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• You paint the way you have to in order to give. That's life itself, and someone will look and say it is the product of knowing, but it has nothing to do with knowing, it has to do with giving.

  Franz Kline

  Life, Order, Knowing

  Franz Kline (1994). “Franz Kline: Art and the structure of identity”, Gingko Pr Inc

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• I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.

  Barnett Newman

  Expression, Leaving, Painting

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• Here is what we have to offer you in its most elaborate form -- confusion guided by a clear sense of purpose.

  Gordon Matta-Clark

  Confusion, Purpose, Guidance

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• The role of the artist is to make the revolution irresistible

  Toni Cade Bambara

  African American, Revolution, Novelists

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• Writing is a socially acceptable form of getting naked in public

  Paulo Coelho

  Writing, Poetry, Naked

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jul 09, 2011

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