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Scenographer Inspirational Quotes (930)

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It's all one to me: opera, painting, drawing, faxes.
David Hockney
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Poetry' is what distinguishes the cubist paintings Picasso and I arrived at intuitively from the lifeless sort of painting those who followed us tried, with such unfortunate results, to arrive at theoretically.
Georges Braque
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In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell. We can't dance synonyms.
George Balanchine
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A man must earnestly want.
William Frederick Book
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Young people need plenty of difficulties to achieve something.... If you receive a little money for this, a little money for that, everything becomes mediocre, and collapses ignominiously.
Salvador Dali
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If you see the world as beautiful, thrilling and mysterious, as I think I do, then you feel quite alive.
David Hockney
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Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory.
Salvador Dali
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Light is quite tactile to me. It has shape and dimension.
Jean Rosenthal
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I have made a great discovery. I no longer believe in anything.
Georges Braque
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[At age 92:] There are places I'd like to return to. But not as I was then but as I am now. 'Cause I'm trying to understand. And I've understood nothing.
Leonora Carrington
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The shapes we are creating are not abstract, they are absolute. They are released from any already existant thing in nature and their content lies in themselves.
Naum Gabo
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It's populated by people who, by and large, have terrific communication skills. Every day is an extraordinary day. For me, it was just a great area for storytelling.
Aaron Sorkin
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We always want to do things the way we like, that's why we never change.
Marina Abramovic
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Genius has to pass over madness and madness over genius
Salvador Dali
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It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.
David Hockney
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Once you start painting, you could of course get lost. I mean you get out of yourself, you don't know whether you're thinking, you just act actually sometimes.
David Hockney
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In the end nobody knows how it's done — how art is made. It can't be explained. Optical devices are just tools. Understanding a tool doesn't explain the magic of creation. Nothing can.
David Hockney
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I don't know a single collector or museum director who says: 'Oh, he's on a list, so I think I'll buy something of his.' The people who buy my art put a little more thought into it than that.
Olafur Eliasson
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I'll get cast occasionally as sort of the jerk version of myself, and I have fun doing that. But it's really better for everyone if I stay behind the camera.
Aaron Sorkin
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What we cannot express by the art of thinking, by the art of science or philosophy or logic, we can and should express by the poetic, visual, or some other arts.
Naum Gabo
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Who knows how to taste wine never drinks wine again, but tastes secrets instead
Salvador Dali
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If we go for the easy way, then we never change.
Marina Abramovic
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Well, in Bradford I could say I was brought up in Bradford and Hollywood.
David Hockney
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...all along I've had an ambivalent relationship to photography - but as to whether I thought it an art form, or a craft, or a technique, well, I've always been taken with Henry Geldzahler's answer to that question when he said, I thought it was a hobby.
David Hockney
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