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Scenographer Inspirational Quotes (930)

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I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.
Roy Lichtenstein
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California is always in my mind.
David Hockney
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Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.
Georges Braque
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I mean if you draw you like drawing, it's er, an activity you do all the time actually.
David Hockney
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I have no literary approach - except to literature.
George Balanchine
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Every good artist I know, I always think works hard, we're working all the time.
David Hockney
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I am interested in a political art, that is to say an art of ambiguity, contradiction, uncompleted gestures and uncertain ending - an art (and a politics) in which optimism is kept in check, and nihilism at bay.
William Kentridge
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Well, I must tell you I write the scripts very close to the bone. So I'm writing episode seven now and couldn't tell you what happens in episode eight.
Aaron Sorkin
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It is extremely dangerous to talk about limits or borders. It is vital, instead, that we remain completely open, that we are always involved, and that we aim to contribute personally in social events.
Dario Fo
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Man's skull represents the same infinity for the movement of conceptions. It is equal to the universe, for in it is contained all that sees in it.
Kazimir Malevich
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I think that both musicals and opera have a capacity to get to an inner emotional landscape.
Julie Taymor
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You program music with an image and then people are desensitized.
Julie Taymor
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Organized perception is what art is all about.
Roy Lichtenstein
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Before he did all those lovely line drawings, Matisse would make really detailed charcoal drawings and tear them up. He wouldn't leave them about... I understand what he was doing: discovering what's there... to make the line meaningful, to find a linear solution.
David Hockney
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That is what the title of artist means: one who perceives more than his fellows, and who records more than he has seen.
Edward Gordon Craig
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The Berlin of the '20s formed the foundation of my future education... the Berlin of the UFA studios, of Fritz Lang, Lubitsch and Erich Pommer. The Berlin of the architects Gropius, Mendelsohn and Mies van der Rohe. The Berlin of the painters Max Libermann, Grosz, Otto Dix, Klee and Kandinsky.
Ken Adam
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Above all, it is a matter of loving art, not understanding it.
Fernand Leger
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Children have an easier ability to tap into the surreal than adults do, in a funny kind of way.
Julie Taymor
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What counts is art. painting, a kind of painting that is quite different from what everyone makes it out to be. But what kind? Will God or someone else give me the strength to breathe the breath of prayer and mourning into my paintings, the breath of prayer for redemption and resurrection?
Marc Chagall
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I have a lot of respect for people who are great at ad-libbing, and for writers and directors who are able to create a scene in which that works.
Aaron Sorkin
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The way we see things is constantly changing. At the moment the way we see things has been left a lot to the camera. That shouldn't necessarily be.
David Hockney
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Art comes from life, not from the studio
Marina Abramovic
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This is a time for serious people, Bob, and your fifteen minutes are up.
Aaron Sorkin
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My first show sold within the first 3 minutes, and I came back to the studio and spent the next two and a half years making almost nothing
Anish Kapoor
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