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art drama blood
The cinema is little more than a fad. It's canned drama. What audiences really want to see is flesh and blood on the stage. Charlie Chaplin
art silence world
Sound has spoiled the most ancient of the world's arts, the art of pantomime, and has canceled out the great beauty that is silence.
art money truth
I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth.
art book facts
There are more valid facts and details in works of art than there are in history books.
art reality acting
Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities. Charles de Gaulle
art teaching use
You don't have to be Michelangelo to teach basic art, just as you don't have to be Shakespeare to be able to teach the correct use of language. Charles de Lint
art people tongue
It reminded me of that tongue-in-cheek quick history of art I'd overheard...Used to be people couldn't draw very well, then they could, and now they can't again.
art ideas air
From the first time he’d met her, he’d sensed an air of contradiction about her. She was very much a woman, but still retained a waiflike quality. She could be brash, and at times deliberately suggestive, yet she was painfully shy. She was incredibly easy to get along with, yet she had few friends. She was a talented artist in her own right, but so self-conscious about her work that she rarely completed a piece and preferred to work with other people’s art and ideas...
art eye thinking
People want to know those details. They think it gives them greater insight into a piece of art, but when they approach a painting in such a manner, they are belittling both the artist’s work and their own ability to experience it. Each painting I do says everything I want to say on its subject and in terms of that painting, and not all the trivia in the world concerning my private life will give the viewer more insight into it than what hangs there before their eyes. Frankly, as far as I’m concerned, even titling a work is an unnecessary concession.
portraiture roger able
Roger Fry is painting me. It is too like me at present, but he is confident he will be able to alter that. Post-Impressionism is at present confined to my lower lip... and to my chin. E. M. Forster
portraiture faces portraits
I'm an odd portrait painter in that I'm not just interested in human faces. I consider almost all of my paintings to be portraits. Jamie Wyeth
portraiture shirts fronts
I am not altogether displeased with the shirt-front. Paul Cezanne
portraiture portraits self-portrait
One is never satisfied with the portrait of a person that one knows. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
portraiture want portraits
Listen: if I am a painter and I do your portrait, have I or haven't I the right to paint you as I want? Oriana Fallaci
portraiture portraits paint
You know, if one paints someone's portrait, one should not know him if possible. Otto Dix
portraiture enough drag
It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me. Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image? Plotinus
portraits remain
I would also like the portraits to remain in Austria. Maria Altmann
portraits demand motion-pictures
To demand the portrait that will be a complete portrait of a person is as futile as to demand that a motion picture be condensed into a single still. Alfred Stieglitz
portraits bookcases
The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait. Anatole Broyard
portraits firsts recognition
Neurologically, I'm a quadriplegic, so virtually everything about my work has been driven by my learning disabilities, which are quite severe, and my lack of facial recognition, which I'm sure is what drove me to paint portraits in the first place. Chuck Close
portraits process sat
Few persons who have ever sat for a portrait can have felt anything but inferior while the process is going on. Anthony Powell
portraits creation
To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation. Alexander Smith
portraits portraiture paint
Everything I paint is a portrait, whatever the subject.
portraits danger methodology
The danger, I find, is that you can become too formulaic, like some commissioned portrait painters who develop a methodology.
portraits satan should
Satan was a blunderer ... who made a stupendous failure. If he had succeeded, we should all have been worshipping him, and his portrait would have been more flattering. George Eliot