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Scenographer Inspirational Quotes (930)

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If I weren't a Jew then I wouldn't be an artist, or at least not the one I am now.
Marc Chagall
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Picasso's always been such a huge influence that I thought when I started the cartoon paintings that I was getting away from Picasso, and even my cartoons of Picasso were done almost to rid myself of his influence.
Roy Lichtenstein
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Never argue with a drunk or a fool.
Aaron Sorkin
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I always feel the desire to look for the extraordinary in ordinary things to suggest, not to impose, to leave always a slight touch of mystery in my paintings.
Balthus
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Someone like myself, who claimed to be a real madman, living and organized with a Pythagorean precision.
Salvador Dali
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Scientific perspective forces the objects in a picture to disappear away from the beholder instead of bringing them within his reach as painting should.
Georges Braque
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Mine alone is the country of my soul.
Marc Chagall
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If you are really true to yourself and really follow your intuition in the most rigorous way, there is a moment that becomes universal, that reaches everybody. That’s the real magic of Björk-she teaches us the courage to be ourselves.
Marina Abramovic
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It was the era of photography. This may have influenced us, and played a part in our reaction against anything resembling a snapshot of life. (On the year 1905)
Andre Derain
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Colour is a human need like water and fire. It is a raw material indispensable to life
Fernand Leger
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The high-definition picture is still a perspective picture. That's the real problem, the perspective picture.
David Hockney
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Going to the Far East was my first eye-opener to a world vastly different from my own. Then when I was 16 I lived in Paris for a year and studied mime. At 21 I went to Indonesia. I had planned to go for three months, but I stayed four years. I just got lost in the culture.
Julie Taymor
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All film directors, even the ones using 3-D today, want you to look at what they chose.
David Hockney
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We don't all see the same way at all. Even if I'm sitting looking at you, there is always the memory of you as well. And a memory is now. So someone who's never met you before is seeing a different person. That's bound to be the case. We all see something different. I assume most people don't look very hard at anything.
David Hockney
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Everything that happens is at least one dimension smaller than you've imagined it to be.
Wolfgang Hildesheimer
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For me an object is something living. This cigarette or this box of matches contains a secret life much more intense than that of certain human beings.
Joan Miro
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I love challenges. If you don't have any and can do whatever you want, then it's probably time to die.
Jean-Claude Van Damme
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Poetry is to a painting what life is to man.
Georges Braque
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I'm talking about intellectually and emotionally challenging, but at the same time it's actually not that challenging. So there's this dichotomy.
Marina Abramovic
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A friend is somebody who says the same things to your face that they would say if you're not in the room.
Aaron Sorkin
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Make your own tools. Hybridize your tools in order to build unique things. Even simple tools that are your own can yield entirely new avenues of exploration. Remember, tools amplify our capacities, so even a small tool can make a big difference.
Bruce Mau
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I have never really done any teaching and maybe I should have done. I am not power-mad enough.
David Hockney
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You must plan to be spontaneous.
David Hockney
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Despite all the troubles of our world, in my heart I have never given up on the love in which I was brought up or on man's hope in love. In life, just as on the artist's palette, there is but one single colour that gives meaning to life and art–the colour of love
Marc Chagall
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