Read quote“Opera is for a lifetime, not just a minute.”
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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“Ever since I first painted or drew, it has always been to bite into reality.”
Read quote“I am only a link in the chain of world culture; and if that is not so, then all my work is rubbish.”
Read quote“The fusion of music should have no limits, because it’s all music.”
Read quote“Everyone is an artist.”
Read quote“I seldom paint portraits, and when I do I neither please myself nor my employers.”
Read quote“Fikri hür, irfanı hür, vicdanı hür, bir şairim.”
Read quote“In Paris…no one regards me curiously. I am simply “M. Tanner, an American artist.””
Read quote“You hit that string and it made a crazy sound. It’s very primal.”
Read quote“Music has always been my therapy and it's always really cathartic for me.”
Read quote“Cuando estoy en escena ni veo nada. Sólo pienso en la canción que interpreto y me hundo, me entrego, me olvido, vuelvo a vivir mis cosas.”
Read quote“Without Art Man would scarce be human; with it he rises above the brute and takes a diviner nature.”
Read quote“السينما أعظم رسالة إعلام”
Read quote“It was the ‘lurch’ part of the sway that I liked.”
Read quote“Poetry is a means of redemption.”
Read quote“على كل فنان ألا يتخبط بالبحث عن ذاته، وعن أسلوبه.”
Read quote“Todo comediante é um pouco ator, porque atua naquilo que escreve.”
Read quote“La découverte de cette boîte de peinture éveilla en moi une irrésistible envie de colorier, de faire revivre par le pinceau ce que je voyais.”
Read quote“Я назвал бы сатирический театр и самым веселым, и самым серьезным театром, который ставит наиболее злободневные вопросы нашей жизни.”
Read quote“« Le cinéma est un art du présent. Ce n’est pas hier ou demain, c’est aujourd’hui ! »”
Original editorial
Quote Stories about Art
Light for the Listening
Mara wants one perfect exhibit. The lanterns she finds under an old theater floor teach her to make room for many voices.
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A Tune for Every Pocket
Celia could repair almost anything with a spring, a screwdriver, and enough patience. Her niece’s silence in music class required something different.
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Leave One Window Open
Daro had brought six old photographs, three sharpened pencils, and a plan that left no space for anyone else.
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