X

Sort by

Quote length

Sentiment

Change font

Change background

Scenographer Inspirational Quotes (930)

Page 14 of 39
Filter & Style
Image
I am a cloud - in trousers.
George Balanchine
Image
Scandals are the fertilizer of Western democracy.
Dario Fo
Image
Well, as a visual artist working with the phenomenon of cinema, the grammar of cinema, [making a feature] was bound to happen. Everything I do is like sculpting with image and sound.
Nicolas Provost
Image
But what is art other than revealing human nature?
Marina Abramovic
Image
Painting or poetry is made as one makes love - a total embrace, prudence thrown to the winds, nothing held back.
Joan Miro
Image
I made a tape recording of a bridge collapsing and I wanted to play it suddenly and very loudly when people were walking over a big bridge in Belgrade. The council forbid it. Their imagination is tiny mine is big. I want always to shake everything up.
Marina Abramovic
Image
Americans are attracted to the dark side. But which movies should be allowed to be violent and show that dark side, and which should not? I don't believe in censorship, but I do think there are horrible movies that are bad for you.
Julie Taymor
Image
It takes a long time to make it simple.
David Hockney
Image
The task of the right eye is to peer into the telescope, while the left eye peers into the microscope.
Leonora Carrington
Image
With age, art and life become one.
Georges Braque
Image
There are things that are not sayable. That’s why we have art.
Leonora Carrington
Image
I really am a guy who can be black and white. I don't understand, too much, the gray. And truly I can go from one type of character to another type of character.
Jean-Claude Van Damme
Image
If an artist has no experience before he makes a painting or a sculpture, he is not an artist.
Naum Gabo
Image
The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep.
Marc Chagall
Image
When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it's bad art.
Marc Chagall
Image
I always look forward to going for a walk in Rushcutters Bay Park, right down to the bottom where you can look in the clear water of the harbour. I use that time to clear my head and really focus my thoughts.
Catherine Martin
Image
It's difficult to talk about colour, even remember colour actually.
David Hockney
Image
A lot of people, given the chance, would blow up everything, and you and me.
David Hockney
Image
Making beautiful things for everyday use is a wonderful thing to do.. making life flow more easily.. but art confronts life, allowing it to stop and perhaps change direction.. they are completely different.
Antony Gormley
Image
I'm terribly afraid of failure. When your identity is wrapped up in writing and you've written something that doesn't work, it's a tough pill to swallow.
Aaron Sorkin
Image
Modern man lives more and more in a preponderantly geometric order. All human creation mechanical or industrial is dependent upon geometric intentions.
Fernand Leger
Image
The space between the dish and the pitcher, that I paint also.
Georges Braque
Image
There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do.
Aaron Sorkin
Image
God is just another artist, like me.
Salvador Dali
Previous
Next