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Scenographer Inspirational Quotes (930)

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Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
Salvador Dali
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When I'm working as a director, I might have an idea of my own but I'm also trying to get great ideas out of my actors. Directing is much more psychological - it's a lot like being a general. And you have to be organized. While you're making a film, you have between 2 and 500 people asking you a billion questions.
Julie Taymor
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The guy who wins the Oscar for Best Actor has a much higher bar to clear than the woman who wins best actress.
Aaron Sorkin
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I serve like a bridge. I go to other cultures, learn, put myself in different situations and learn as much as I can, and then go to Western cultures to give. I'm doing this bridging all the time.
Marina Abramovic
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I was 18 when I first visited London, I'm very provincial like that, but I must confess the moment I got to America I thought: This is the place. It was more open, with 24-hour cities and pubs and restaurants that didn't close.
David Hockney
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My mother's love for me was so great I have worked hard to justify it.
Marc Chagall
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Maybe the way we have learned to look has changed in the last 25 years, and the exotic is much more acceptable. There are many artists now, younger artists, who work out of the exotic
Anish Kapoor
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I believe that to do anything in this world one needs a love for risk and adventure, and above all, to be able to do without what middle-class families call future.
Joan Miro
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I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings.
Balthus
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The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to look at the painters of this century.
Balthus
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The fingers must be educated, the thumb is born knowing.
Marc Chagall
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I believe in the city as a natural human environment, but we must humanize it. It's art that will re-define public space in the 21st Century. We can make our cities diverse, inspirational places by putting art, dance and performance in all its forms into the matrix of street life.
Antony Gormley
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Take your big stick, and your boyfriend, and go find a bus to catch.
Jean-Claude Van Damme
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I'm very attracted to the great open spaces of the West.
David Hockney
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I am not a therapist. I am not a spiritual leader. These elements are in the art: it is therapeutic, spiritual, social and political - everything. It has many layers. But art has to have many layers. If it doesn't, then forget it.
Marina Abramovic
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An artist should not fall in love with another artist.
Marina Abramovic
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Why not do something strange and different for once? Artists can do whatever they want!
Marina Abramovic
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But usually I begin things through a drawing, so a lot of things are worked out in the drawing. But even then, I still allow for and want to make changes.
Roy Lichtenstein
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The problem with the youth of today' is that one is no longer part of it.
Salvador Dali
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Laugh a lot. It clears the lungs.
David Hockney
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The pointes for girls, I always say, have to be like an elephant's trunk strong and yet flexible and soft.
George Balanchine
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The eye is a very quick instrument, much quicker than the ear. The eye gets it immediately
Anish Kapoor
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Tell me what you think and then tell me what the really smart person in the room who disagrees with you thinks.
Aaron Sorkin
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Reason must know the heart's reasons and every other reason
Leonora Carrington
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