Read quote“I would be a very dissatisfied actor if it did.”
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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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Words on Art
Read quote“You don’t want to be the actor. You just want to be that person.”
Read quote“I agree that my art has purpose. I want to exert influence in these times when people are so at a loss and in need of help.”
Read quote“Me gusta mucho la música con mensaje, con sentido.”
Read quote“Everything I do is truth. Art is true.”
Read quote“Hoy en día un cine perfecto —técnica y artísticamente logrado— es casi siempre un cine reaccionario.”
Read quote“The cinema would be a refuge for me.”
Read quote“I try not to follow the same formula twice.”
Read quote“Only by wonderful technique do you disguise technique.”
Read quote“I think it’s about making good films.”
Read quote“I’m always more interested in someone that sincerely wants to express something and find a new way to do it.”
Read quote“You must participate. You can't be an artist if you don't know the social, the political, and the economical context.”
Read quote“The editing has got to be in the writing.”
Read quote“Music has a power — it's a powerful weapon of peace, and we need to use art to get close and just to destroy all these stupid barriers we have.”
Read quote“That’s what art is supposed to do—art makes people feel less alone, in their joy or their struggle or their pain.”
Read quote“I was born to be an artist, painting from as far as I could remember.”
Read quote“To me, sword is a kind of locus on which thoughts are projected. It's a projection of a person's spirit.”
Read quote“It’s always a disguise of a sort and it’s always a revelation of a sort.”
Read quote“Estamos retomando el melodrama clásico”
Read quote“It has to do with my intention of examining the body, which is an important element in live performances.”
Original editorial
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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