Gaston Lachaise Quotes
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The modern tradition is the tradition of revolt. The French Revolution is still our model today: history is violent change, and this change goes by the name of progress. I do not know whether these notions really apply to art.
Octavio Paz -
Politics is the art of the next best.
Otto von Bismarck -
There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
Samuel Johnson -
The world of fiction is a sovereign world that comes to life in the author's head and follows the rules of art, of literature. And that is the major difference that is reflected in the form of the work, in its language and its plot. An author invents every aspect of a fiction, every detail.
Imre Kertesz -
My family always encouraged my drawing ability. Kids in school who teased me about my reading would get out of their seats and stand behind my desk as I worked and go, 'Wow, you can really draw.' Later, I earned a degree in Fine Art and got a Ph.D. in Art History.
Patricia Polacco -
I believe love at first sight is possible. Centuries of literature and art and beauty has been dedicated to that idea, so who am I to argue, even if I've never experienced it?
Maggie Grace
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Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
Pablo Picasso -
The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
Salvador Dali -
There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their foolish and random writing it would be impossible to overestimate - not to the artist, but to the public, blinding them to all but harming the artist not at all.
Oscar Wilde -
I feel like now fashion is just part of how I think about everything. When I send out a mood board to our contributors every month about our monthly theme, there are photos from our fashion shows, but there are also film stills and album art.
Tavi Gevinson -
As a consumer, I don't create art, but I think whatever the message is, art has to touch you.
Ha-Joon Chang -
They're not poodles, they're art.
Rachael Leigh
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I feel the art world in New York has a stronger following than Britain. If you go to a New York art district on a Saturday morning, it will be so busy with families and openings - art is much more ingrained in the culture.
Sam Taylor-Wood -
Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.
Malcolm de Chazal -
Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.
Mae West -
Figure skating is a mixture of art and sport.
Katarina Witt -
What thoughts are to the individual, art is to the community as a whole. That's where you reflect on who you are, who you hope to be, what you've gone through, and where you hope to go.
Wendell Pierce -
Only a great actor finds the difficulties of the actor's art infinite.
Ellen Terry
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A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.
G. H. Hardy -
I'm sensitive and get easily upset and insulted.
Sia LSD -
Sexiness is in what you cover, not what you show. When you are covered, you leave a lot to people's imagination. People see the mystery in my eyes and find it sexy.
Krystle D'Souza -
Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with that there is
Ernest Hemingway -
All art is a confession.
Gaston Lachaise