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Scenographer Inspirational Quotes (930)

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People will justify whatever for a good cause.
Julie Taymor
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Talking about [Donald] Trump, there's nothing wrong with Trump. He's who he is. It's wrong with us, who let him [win]. That's what's wrong. It's not that he's going to change, but the people who think like him.
Marina Abramovic
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I had always planned to make a large painting of the early spring, when the first leaves are at the bottom of the trees, and they seem to float in space in a wonderful way. But the arrival of spring can't be done in one picture.
David Hockney
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You certainly can't be a perfect person, coming up with the 100% correct solution, all the time. It's just a combination of a chain of good decisions that comes up with a successful product or a successful film. That's what you hope for. But, nothing about the system is 100% fool proof.
Rick Heinrichs
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Color is the essence of painting, which the subject always killed.
Kazimir Malevich
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It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself.
Salvador Dali
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Everybody understands a slap in the face. In Japan, Belgium, or America, a punch is a punch. Comedy will be different in Europe or America or Japan, so my movies are very international.
Jean-Claude Van Damme
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I always sent my mother all these huge books I made. When my mother died, I was cleaning her cupboard, and these big books were only 20 pages long. She edited out, maybe burned, every single photograph where I'm naked.
Marina Abramovic
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In fact, I'm a bit of a slob, but I've always said my excuse, I have a higher sense of order, I can see it where others can't. That's my excuse for slobbery, I must admit, but I think it's a good one.
David Hockney
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The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.
David Hockney
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Forgetting is natural, remembering is the effort one makes.
William Kentridge
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One of the main causes of our artistic decline lies beyond doubt in the separation of art and science.
Gino Severini
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The urge to draw must be quite deep within us, because children love to do it.
David Hockney
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Everywhere there is craft and technique everywhere there is artistry and form. Art itself, technique, is ponderous and clumsy, and because of its awkwardness it obstructs that inner element.
Kazimir Malevich
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Being able to draw means being able to put things in believable space. People who don't draw very well can't do that.
David Hockney
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I cannot move, I cannot even want to move, unless I hear the music first.
George Balanchine
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Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make.
David Hockney
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[My work] looks very cinematic because it's not abstract video art. It's sometimes very narrative and since I play with film grammar in my video work, making a feature film was almost the same challenge.
Nicolas Provost
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Toby: All right. It couldn't have gone far, right? Sam: No. Toby: Somewhere in this building...is our talent.
Aaron Sorkin
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When you're 50, the best thing to do is dance the Argentinean tango.
Marina Abramovic
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It is necessary to recover the primeval force of the shock taking place at the moment when opposite a man (the viewer) there stood for the first time a man (the actor) deceptively similar to us, yet at the same time infinitely foreign, beyond an impassable barrier.
Tadeusz Kantor
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We live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns.
Aaron Sorkin
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Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature, understand them thoroughly.
Salvador Dali
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Work to perfect the mind. There is no certitude but in what the mind conceives.
Georges Braque
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