Read quote“Acting is never boring.”
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About Art
Creative expression through visual, literary, performing, or other forms, used to communicate ideas, emotions, experiences, or perspectives.
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Read quote“The only way for us to become great, and even, if it is possible, inimitable, is by imitating the ancients.”
Read quote“Як я уявляю, гарний фільм повинен будуватися як музичний твір.”
Read quote“Ja mam tyle pieniędzy, że on ma być we wszystkich stylach.”
Read quote“It all comes down to the quality of the song.”
Read quote“The concept of originality is completely relative.”
Read quote“When you do these factory films, as I call them, these mainstream films, you try to improve in terms of logic, in terms of production, editing, acting, scriptwriting, in terms of all the aspects of filmmaking.”
Read quote“To resist is to be a poet and to live an uninterrupted metaphor.”
Read quote“so it came that being in the bush and feeling the delight and fascination of the great pastoral life and work I have tried to express it”
Read quote“I think I was always meant to be an artist.”
Read quote“the creative treatment of actuality”
Read quote“I wasn’t an artist who was just sitting in his studio, painting and coming back.”
Read quote“The idea that the director pulls a performance, it’s not like that.”
Read quote“When I’m writing novels, reality and unreality just naturally get mixed together.”
Read quote“I relocated because I wanted to be closer to my son, although it was mainly due to the Covid-19 pandemic lockdown that restricted creatives from conducting live shows.”
Read quote“I credit poetry, in other words, both for being itself and for being a help.”
Read quote“If you look at my face while I am singing, you will see that I am not there, I am not in the place.”
Read quote“I invent everything in my painting. And I stylize whatever it was that I saw or felt.”
Read quote“Песни Володи подарили мне крылья.”
Read quote“When you're writing a story, it often feels less like you're doing architecture and more like you're doing excavation—we're just unearthing it.”
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Quote Stories about Art
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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