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Drawing and composition are the same thing.
John French Sloan
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You get in a smart crack, and everyone laughs and kikis because you've found a flaw and exaggerated it, then you've got a good read going.
Dorian Corey
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I eventually want to be the anchor of the first trillion-dollar company.
Kanye West
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It is difficult to see the great dance effects as they happen, to see them accurately, catch them fast in memory. It is even more difficult to verbalize them for critical discussion. The particular essence of a performance, its human sweep of articulate rhythm in space and in time has no specific terminology to describe it by.
Martha Graham
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A longing for excitement can be satisfied without external means within oneself: For creating is the most intense excitement one can come to know.
Anni Albers
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When I'm out the country, niggas call me Neeki. Hi, how are you? Yes, it's nice to meet me.
Nicki Minaj
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This art of conservation is strength, and makes the masterpiece a masterpiece. Otherwise, the man who simply brought all the different colors obtainable, and squeezed them out upon the canvas to give it 'full force,' would be the greatest master, instead of being merely extravagant.
John F. Carlson
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What has been said does not simply belong to us.
Josef Albers
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I don't think about myself very much.
Manolo Blahnik
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Museums just seem to have this borrowed cachet—if I want to seem cultural, I will design something cultural. I resist the idea that culture is only opera houses or theatres. Culture is your entire life around you: toilets, the bus, the kerb or the dump where you drag your waste. Culture has come to mean the arts, but it’s swimming pools as well.
Thomas Heatherwick
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An interesting thing happened in 1989, right as I was graduating: the stock market crashed and really changed the landscape of the art world in New York. It made the kind of work I was doing interesting to galleries that wouldn't have normally been interested in it
Matthew Barney
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I have been flooded with color on the inside, drab on the outside.
Anne Truitt
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I come to the point of using steel, and simply cannot. It's like the marriage proposal of a perfectly eligible man who just isn't loveable. It is wood I love.
Anne Truitt
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The end of parenthood is implicit in its beginning: separation.
Anne Truitt
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The art of being officially old seems to lie in cooperative submission.
Anne Truitt
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January is my favorite month, when the light is plainest, least colored. And I like the feeling of beginnings.
Anne Truitt
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The finest teaching touches in a student a spring neither teacher nor student could possibly have preconceived.
Anne Truitt
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artists often lie behind on the field long after the art combine, the broad-bladed harvester of informed criticism, has mowed, bailed, and stored the crop.
Anne Truitt
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I had forgotten what sleep is like - a kingdom all its own.
Anne Truitt
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I worked in between carpools and buying food and cooking and whatever else I had to do. I lived an outside life, but really I was living an inside life.
Anne Truitt
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When I speak now, my experience in art wells up so articulately that I am surprised even while I am talking. I move around a podium as easily as if it were my living room and although I am keyed up I am not anxious. I feel as if I were doing what I should be doing - the feeling I have when intent in my studio.
Anne Truitt
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The most demanding part of living a lifetime as an artist is the strict discipline of forcing oneself to work steadfastly along the nerve of one's own intimate sensitivity.
Anne Truitt
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I never decided at all to be an artist being an artist seems to have happened to me.
Anne Truitt
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How people are around a director, it really does affect everything, every detail of the life of the movie.
Daniel Day-Lewis
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