Read quote“У меня в театре художники.”
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Creative expression through visual, literary, performing, or other forms, used to communicate ideas, emotions, experiences, or perspectives.
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Read quote“I always paint without a model, because being a conceptual painter, being a painter whose interest is in ideas, the model gets in the road.”
Read quote“Meskipun saya telah membuat dua film sebelum “Darah dan Doa”, film itu saya rasakan sebagai film saya yang pertama.”
Read quote“Без пари мога да живея, но не и без рап.”
Read quote“My poetry begins for me where certainty ends.”
Read quote“I don't use storyboards, but the opening montage of Aliwan was supposed to look like a commercial.”
Read quote“Better to not put out a record if you don't have a good idea.”
Read quote“Artists do not have enmities with anyone. Artists do not like war. War is not good for any country.”
Read quote“I rely on the public to stimulate me and bring out the best.”
Read quote“I have always conceived of cinema, the things I’ve made, as having a representation of life.”
Read quote“The lighter phase of comedy, representing the more natural and less laboured school of modern life, and holding the mirror up to nature without regard to the conventionalities of the theatre, was the aim I had in view.”
Read quote“El teatro es todo lo contrario de un debate.”
Read quote“Not to speak of sentiment and thought, which constitute the real and lasting merit of any work.”
Read quote“For any viewer to experience a feeling of trust in what he is being shown.”
Read quote“Who knows if in the time of their children, these very pictures now painted for Maharajas and nobles will not become their property as well, and find their way into museums.”
Read quote“Now I shall take off old Faulkner to the life.”
Read quote“I want to tell them to see films here [pointing to his heart—ed.] because I make films thinking that way.”
Read quote“The last sequence is a sort of liebestod.”
Read quote“Relating a person to the whole world: that is the meaning of cinema.”
Read quote“It's a song about artistic survival.”
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Paint That Keeps Moving
Ansel expected to repaint a delivery van. Instead, a florist, an apprentice, and a handful of favorite flowers persuaded him to let his craft change with the seasons.
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A Kiln with Many Hands
When a potter inherits a failing communal kiln, she plans to work alone. Then cracked bowls, muddy boots, and a crowd of determined neighbors teach her what the kiln was built to hold.
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What the Lanterns Learned
Otta knew how to save a puppet’s past. The young performers needed her to help invent its next step.
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