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“The golden mean, the truth, is no longer recognized or valued. To win applause one must write stuff so simple that a coachman might sing it, or so incomprehensible that it pleases simply because no sensible man can comprehend it. in a letter to his father, 1782”
“My fatherland has always the first claim on me. Letter to Leopold Mozart (24 November 1781), from Mozart: The Man and the Artist, as Revealed in his own Words by Friedrich Kerst, trans. Henry Edward Krehbiel (1906).”
“…passions, violent or not, must never be expressed to the point of disgust, and Music must never offend the ear, even in most horrendous situations, but must always be pleasing, in other words always remain Music… Letter to Leopold Mozart, (Vienna, 26 September 1781), from Mozart's Letters, Mozart's Life: Selected Letters, ed. Robert Spaethling [W.W. Norton, 2000, ISBN 0”
“As I love Mannheim , Mannheim loves me. Letter to Leopold Mozart, (Mannheim, 12 November 1778), from Mozart's Letters, Mozart's Life: Selected Letters, ed. Robert Spaethling [W.W. Norton, 2000, ISBN 0”
“A fellow of mediocre talent will remain a mediocrity, whether he travels or not; but one of superior talent (which without impiety I cannot deny that I possess) will go to seed if he always remains in the same place. Letter to Leopold Mozart (11 September 1778), from Wolfgang Amadé Mozart by Georg Knepler (1991), trans. J. Bradford Robinson [Cambridge University Press, 1994, ISBN 0”
“I must give you a piece of intelligence that you perhaps already know”
“The most stimulating and encouraging thought is that you, dearest father, and my dear sister, are well, that I am an honest German, and that if I am not always permitted to talk I can think what I please; but that is all. Letter to Leopold Mozart (Paris, 29 April 1778), from Mozart: The Man and the Artist, as Revealed in his own Words by Friedrich Kerst, trans. Henry Edward Krehbiel”
“Letter to Leopold Mozart (24 October 1777), from Mozart: The Man and the Artist, as Revealed in his own Words by Friedrich Kerst, trans. Henry Edward Krehbiel (1906) [1]”
“Sie wird das nothwendigste und härteste und die hauptsache in der Musique niemahlen bekommen, nämlich das tempo, weil sie sich vom jugend auf völlig befliessen hat, nicht auf den tact zu spiellen.”
“I write as a sow pisses. Letter to his sister ( Milan , 26 January 1770), from Contradictory Quotations , Longman Group Ltd., 1983. Rendered as "as the sows piss" in Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , trans. Hans Mersmann, Dover Publications, 1972”
“An artist who sees that the imitation of natural appearances, however artistic, is not for him”
“..the works of Mozart . They create a welcome pause amidst the storms of our inner life, a vision of consolation and hope, but we hear them like sounds of another, vanished and essential unfamiliar age. Clashing discords, loss of equilibrium.. Quote from: On the Spiritual in Art , 1911; as cited in Schönberg and Kandinsky: An Historic Encounter , by Klaus Kropfinger; edited by Konrad Boehmer; published by Routledge (imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informal company), 2003, p. 17”
“At the moment there is a great tendency in painting to discover the 'new' harmony by constructive means whereby the rhythmic is built on an almost geometric form.. .I am certain that our own modern harmony is not to be found in the 'geometric' way, but rather in the anti”
“Kandinsky visited a concert with music of Schönberg on 11 Jan. 1911 with Franz Marc , Alexej von Jawlensky , Gabriele Münter and others; they played compositions, Schönberg wrote in 1907 and 1909: his second string quartet and the 'Three piano pieces'”
“In your [ composer Schönberg's ] works, you have realized what I, albeit in uncertain form, have so greatly longed for in music. The independent progress through their own destinies, the independent life of the individual voices in your compositions, is exactly what I am trying to find in my painting. in his letter to Arnold Schönberg , 18 Jan. 1911; as cited in Schonberg and Kandinsky: An Historic Encounter , by Klaus Kropfinger; edited by Konrad Boehmer; published by Routledge (imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informal company), 2003, p. 9”
“[ Schoenberg's ] music leads us into a realm where musical experience is a matter not of the ear but of the soul alone, and at this point the music of the future begins. Quote of Kandinsky, 1911; in Concerning the Spiritual in Art , transl. Michael T. Sadler (1914); reprint. New York: Dover, 1977), p. 17”
“Opposites and contradictions, that is our harmony. German original: Gegensätze und Widerspruche, dass ist unsere Harmonie. short quote, 1911; as cited in schönberg and Kandinsky: An Historic Encounter , by Klaus Kropfinger; ed. Konrad Boehmer; published by Routledge (imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informal company), 2003, p. 9, note 1”
“Mystery, speaking through mysteries. Isn't that meaning? Isn't that the conscious or unconsciousnes purpose of the compulsive urge to create? Quote, c. 1910; as cited by de:Wolf”
“The impressions we receive, which often appear merely chaotic, consist of three elements; the impression of the color of the object, its form, and of its combined color and form, i.e., of the object itself. At this point the individuality of the artist comes to the front and disposes, as he wills, these three elements. It is clear, therefore, that the choice of object (i.e., of one of the elements in the harmony of form) must be decided only by a corresponding vibration in the human soul.. Quote of Kandinsky, Munich, 1910; as cited in Artists on Art”
“Frankly, I think there is something wrong with Jawlensky 's dots [in his paintings, then]. Anybody can pick up that style if they want to. Quote of Kandinsky, c 1903; as cited by de:Wolf”
“as school teacher and lay preacher near London”
“If I should find something it will probably be a position between clergy man and missionary in the suburbs of London among the working people. Do not speak to anybody about it yet. In his letter to brother Theo from Welwyn, England, 17 June 1876; as quoted in Vincent van Gogh , edited by Alfred H. Barr ; Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1935, p. 17”
“My dear Theo, Feeling, even a fine feeling, for the beauties of nature isn't the same as religious feeling, although I believe that the two are closely connected. The same is true of a feeling for art. Don't give in to that too much either. Hold fast especially to your love for the firm [of the Paris' art dealers Goupil & C0 , where both brothers worked”
“There was a sale here [in Paris] of drawings by Millet , I don't know whether I've already written to you about it. When I entered the room in Hôtel Drouot where they were exhibited, I felt something akin to: 'Put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground' [Bible”
“Some time ago I saw a painting by Thijs Maris [= Matthijs Maris , one of the three brothers Maris, all three famous Dutch impressionist painters of the Hague School ] that reminded me of it. An old Dutch town with rows of brownish red houses with step”
“I've got nature and art and poetry, and if that isn't enough, what is? From a letter to his brother Theo van Gogh, January 1874 [6]”
“Always continue walking a lot and loving nature, for that’s the real way to learn to understand art better and better. Painters understand nature and love it, and teach us to see. From a letter to his brother Theo van Gogh, January 1874 [5]”
“Vindt maar mooi zooveel je kunt, de meesten vinden niet genoeg mooi. Find things beautiful as much as you can, most people find too little beautiful. From a letter to his brother Theo van Gogh, January 1874 [4]”
“Vincent's profession then was picture dealer at Goupil and Co. , with branches a. o. in The Hague, London and Paris”
“I am sure you will like it, it is such a fine business [art”
“It is under such cultural circumstances that our contemporaries, systematically cretinised by the mechanicism and the architecture of auto”
“The Italian metaphysical movement [initiated by De Chirico ] started from the spiritual reality, a consequence of the physical miracle and it aspects grouped on an immaterial plane; all this formed a new spectral reality, in order to attain maximal, almost erotic creativity in touch. The Cubists , on the other hand, starting from this sensual”
“One might think that through ecstasy we would have access to a world as far from reality as that of the dream.”
“In the early 1930's Dalí was judged by a surrealist 'high court' at André Breton 's flat; Dali was accused of 'counter”
“So, André Breton , if tonight I dream I am screwing you, tomorrow morning I will paint all of our best fucking positions with the greatest wealth of detail. Quote, early 1930's; as quoted by Jonathan Jones in his article 'André in wonderland'; The Guardian / Culture, 16 June, 2004”
“One morning with Ripolin [French paint] I painted a new”
“The more I looked at his face [of Saint Sebastian ] the more curious it seemed. That said, I seemed to have always known it and the aseptic morning light revealed its smallest details which such clarity, such purity, that I was impossible moved.. .In the upper part of the heliometer was St. Sebastian's magnifying glass.. .I put my eye to the magnifying glass, product of a slow distillation, at once numerical and intuitive. Each drop of water a number. Each drop of blood a geometry. Quote from his poem 'Sant Sebastia', Salvador Dali 1927”
“Dali is striving then for a rational approach of his paintings; he is very probably referring to his painting, he made earlier in 1927: ' Little Ashes'”
“Just now I'm painting a beautiful woman, smiling, burnt to a crisp, with feathers of all colors, held up by a small die of burning marble; the die is in turn held up by a little puff of smoke, churned and quite; in the sky there are asses with parrot”
“Telephone, pedal washbasin, white refrigerators gleaming with Ripolin [French paint], bidet, small phonograph.. ..objects of authentic and pure poetry (MPC p. 11).. ..The Parthenon was not built as a ruin. It was built on a new surface without patina, like our automobiles. / we will not always bear on our shoulders the weight of our father's corpse. Quote, 1920's; MPC p. 13; as quoted in Dali and Me , Catherine Millet ,”
“The familiar becomes strange when we look at it with fresh eyes.”
“Words and images have a mysterious relationship that I try to capture.”
“A painted object is not the object itself; it is a representation that makes us think of the object.”
“The function of painting is to make poetry visible.”
“My painting is visible images which conceal nothing; they evoke mystery.”
“To be a surrealist means to barter the soul for the unknown.”
“The real is not what is seen, but what is felt.”
“Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.”
“Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see.”
“The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown.”
“Because of the great zeal and devotion which I experienced in executing well the two pictures which His Highness commissioned me to make”
“Rembrandt emphasizes here the urge for a place with bright light, necessary to view his painting well. Not certain is which painting by Rembrandt is meant here.”
“My [dear] Sir: Let me first offer my kind regards. I agree that I should come soon to see how the picture accords with the rest. As regards the price, I certainly deserve 200 pounds for it, but shall be content with whatever His Excellency pays me. And if you, Sir, do not deem it presumptuous, I shall not neglect to requite the favor. Your humble and devoted servant Rembrandt”
“I cannot refrain from presenting you, [dear] Sir, my latest work.”
“..that I am very diligently engaged in proficiently completing the three Passion paintings which his Excellency has personally commissioned me [to do]: an Entombment [6] , a Resurrection, and an Ascension of Christ.. .Of the above three, one has been completed, namely Christ's Ascension to Heaven, and the other two are more than half”
“version in original Dutch (origineel citaat van Rembrandt, in Nederlands): Een vroom gemoet / Acht eer voor goet”
“A pious mind / Places honor above wealth”
“this short quote is written at the bottom in a portrait”
“Quote in original Dutch (citaat van Rembrandt in Nederlands): Dit is naer mijn huijsvrou geconterfeit do si 21 jaer oud was, den derden dach als wij getroudt waeren, den 8 junijus 1633 Rembrandt's inscription under a drawing of his wife Saskia, 1633; as cited in Rembrandt: The Painter at Work , by Ernst van de Wetering , Amsterdam University Press, 1997, p. 47”
“This is portrayed after my wife when she was 21 years old, the third day after we were betrothed, on the 8th of June 1633 [3]”
“I started to sing like myself”
“The fact of the matter is, you don't give up what's natural. Anything I've fantasized about, I've done. Los Angeles Times”
“Music has been around a long time, and there's going to be music long after Ray Charles is dead. I just want to make my mark, leave something musically good behind. If it's a big record, that's the frosting on the cake, but music's the main meal. As quoted "Words of the Week" in Jet magazine, Vol. 64, No. 6 (25 April 1983), p. 40”
“Rhythm and blues used to be called race music . … This music was going on for years, but nobody paid any attention to it. Pop Chronicles : Show 55”
“A symposium on soul”
“Soul is when you take a song and make it a part of you”
“Yeah yeah, what'd I say, all right Well, tell me what'd I say, yeah Tell me what'd I say right now Tell me what'd I say "What'd I Say", from the album What'd I Say”
“Hey mama, don't you treat me wrong, Come and love your daddy all night long. All right now, hey hey, all right. See the girl with the diamond ring; She knows how to shake that thing. All right now now now, hey hey, hey hey. Tell your mama, tell your pa, I'm gonna send you back to Arkansas. Oh yes, ma'm, you don't do right, don't do right. " What'd I Say ", from the album What'd I Say”
“I got a woman way over town, That's good to me, Oh yeah! " I Got a Woman ", written with Renald Richard”
“You gotta know how to get to people's heart Pop Chronicles : Show 15”
“A great sentiment can be rendered immediately. Dream on it and look for the simplest form in which you can express it. p. 5: Letter to Emile Schuffenecker ,”
“Don't copy nature too closely. Art is an abstraction; as you dream amide nature, extrapolate art from it and concentrate on what you will create as a result. pp. 5 & 22: Gauguin is advising a fellow painter, 1885”
“freely and madly; you will make progress.. .Above all, don't sweat over a painting; a great sentiment can be rendered immediately..”
“Gauguin is referring to the painting Breton Calvary: The Green Christ .”
“With this painting , I tried to make everything breathe faith, quiet suffering, religious and primitive style and great nature with its scream. in a letter to Theo van Gogh (1889”
“Quote from a conversation in 1888, Pont”
“How do you see this tree? Is it really green? Use green, then, the most beautiful green on your palette. And that shadow, rather blue? Don't be afraid to paint it as blue as possible. Comment voyez”
“This Cézanne [a 'Still life with Compotier, Fruit and Glass', Cézanne made c. 1879”
“Gauguin accepted membership in the Societe Anonyme Cooperative des Artistes Peintres, Sculpteurs, Graveurs, formed in 1873 by Pissarro, Claude Monet , Pierre”
“My Dear Mr. Pissarro ;”
“remark to Vincent van Gogh , ca. 1886 in Paris. Van Gogh showed Cezanne some of his recent paintings, he recently made in Paris”
“You positively paint like a madman. As quoted in: 'Mercure de France', 16 December 1908, p. 607”
“I saw Monet and Renoir at about the end of December; they had been on holiday in Genoa, in Italy. Quote in Cezanne's letter to Emile Zola , 23rd February 1884; as quoted in Renoir”
“I had the company of monsieur Gibert. Such people see clearly, but they have the teacher's eye. As the train was taking us past Alexis' place a staggering subject for a picture came into view towards the east: St”
“'The very opposite of 'modeling' meant roughly that Cézanne and Pissarro in their common painting”
“Listen, monsieur Vollard , I worked a lot out of doors at L'Estaque . Except for that there was no other event of importance in my life during the years 1870”
“At Aix ( Aix en Provence ) I am not free; whenever I want to return to Paris , I always have to put up a fight, and, although your (his father) opposition may not be absolute, I am always deeply affected by the resistance that I encounter from you. I sincerely want my liberty unfettered.. ..it would give me great pleasure to work in the Midi, some aspects of which offer many resources to the painter; there I would be able to attack some of the problems that I wish to solve. Quote in Cezanne's letter to his father in Aix; ca. 1871”
“He (the painter Manet ) hits of the tone.. ..but his work lacks unity and temperament too. (ca. 1863) Quote in: Cézanne , by Ambroise Vollard , Dover publications Inc. New York, 1984, p. 27”
“Don't you think your Corot [to Guilemet the painter] is a little short on temperament? I'm painting a portrait of Vallabreque; the highlight on the nose is pure vermilion [remark of Cezanne ca. 1860] Quote in: Cézanne , by Ambroise Vollard , Dover publications Inc. New York, 1984, p. 28”
“I've ripped it to pieces; your portrait, you know. I tried to work on it this morning, but it went from bad to worse, so I destroyed it.. Quote of Cezanne, from his letter to Emile Zola , ca 1861; as quoted in Cezanne , by Ambroise Vollard , Dover publications Inc. New York, 1984, p. 23”
“The idea of research has often made painting go astray, and made the artist lose himself in mental lucubrations. Perhaps this has been the principal fault of modern art. The spirit of research has poisoned those who have not fully understood all the positive and conclusive elements in modern art and has made them attempt to paint the invisible and, therefore, the unpaintable.”
“Mathematics , trigonometry , chemistry , psychoanalysis , music , and what not have been related to cubism to give it an easier interpretation. All this has been pure literature , not to say nonsense, which brought bad results, blinding people with theories. Cubism has kept itself within the limits and limitations of painting, never pretending to go beyond it.”
“Many think that Cubism is an art of transition, an experiment which is to bring ulterior results. Those who think that way have not understood it. Cubism is not either a seed or a foetus, but an art dealing primarily with forms, and when a form is realized it is there to live its own life. A mineral substance, having geometric formation, is not made so for transitory purposes, it is to remain what it is and will always have its own form. p. 323.”
“Variation does not mean evolution. If an artist varies his mode of expression this only means that he has changed his manner of thinking, and in changing, it might be for the better or it might be for the worse. p. 391.”
“Cubism is no different from any other school of painting. The same principles and the same elements are common to all. The fact that for a long time cubism has not been understood and that even today there are people who cannot see anything in it, means nothing. I do not read English, and an English book is a blank to me. This does not mean that the English language does not exist, and why should I blame anyone but myself if I cannot understand what I know nothing about? p. 319.”
“We all know that Art is not truth . Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies. If he only shows in his work that he has searched, and re”
“I can hardly understand the importance given to the word research in connection with modern painting. In my opinion to search means nothing in painting. To find is the thing. Nobody is interested in following a man who, with his eyes fixed on the ground, spends his life looking for the purse that fortune should put in his path. The one who finds something no matter what it might be, even if his intention were not to search for it, at least arouses our curiosity, if not our admiration. p. 315”
“They speak of naturalism in opposition to modern painting . I would like to know if anyone has ever seen a natural work of art. Nature and art , being two different things, cannot be the same thing. Through art we express our conception of what nature is not. Velasquez left us his idea of the people of his epoch. Undoubtedly they were different from what he painted them, but we cannot conceive a Philip IV in any other way than the one Velasquez painted... [Paris 1923]. As quoted in Futurism , ed. Didier Ottinger; Centre Pompidou / 5 Continents Editions, Milan, 2008, p. 312”
“When I hear people speak of the evolution of an artist, it seems to me that they are considering him standing between two mirrors that face each other and reproduce his image an infinite number of times, and that they contemplate the successive images of one mirror as his past, and the images of the other mirror as his future, while his real image is taken as his present. They do not consider that they all are the same images in different planes... [Paris 1923]. As quoted in Futurism , ed. Didier Ottinger; Centre Pompidou / 5 Continents Editions, Milan, 2008, p. 311”
“Among the several sins that I have been accused of committing, none is more false than the one that I have, as the principal objective in my work, the spirit of research . When I paint my object is to show what I have found and not what I am looking for. In art intentions are not sufficient and, as we say in Spanish , love must be proved by facts and not by reasons... [Paris 1923]. As quoted in Futurism , ed. Didier Ottinger; Centre Pompidou / 5 Continents Editions, Milan, 2008, p. 311”
“This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.”
“What kept me sane was knowing that things would change, and it was a question of keeping myself together until they did.”
“Picket lines, school boycotts/They try to say it's a communist plot/All I want is equality /For my sister, my brother, my people, and me Mississippi Goddam 1964”
“Hound dogs on my trail/School children sitting in jail/Black cat cross my path/I think every day's gonna be my last/Don't tell me, I'll tell you/Me and my people just about due/I've been there so I know/They keep on saying "Go slow!" Mississippi Goddam 1964”
“I wish I could share all the love that's in my heart/Remove all the bars that keep us apart/I wish you could know what it means to be me/Then you'd see and agree/That everyone should be free/But, oh, I'm just a soul whose intentions are good/Oh, Lord, please, don't let me be misunderstood I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free 1967”
“Well I wish I could be like a bird in the sky/How sweet it would be/If I found I could fly/I'd soar to the sun/And look down at the sea/And I sing 'cause I know/How it feels to be free I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free 1967”
“the world is big/Big and bright and round/And it's full of folks like me/Who are black, yellow, beige and brown Backlash Blues 1967”
“Mr. Backlash, Mr. Backlash/Just who do you think I am?/You raise my taxes, freeze my wages/And send my son to Vietnam /You give me second class houses/And second class schools/Do you think that all colored folks/Are just second class fools? Nina Simone , Backlash Blues 1967”
“When the poets rhyme in the summertime/You'll hear melodies in the words Nina Simone , Music for Lovers 1978”
“We never talked about men or clothes or inconsequential things we got together. It was always Marx , Lenin and revolution”
“I love Pops , I love the way he sings, the way he plays”
“Mastersounds Heard Again in New Album; Miles Davis At the Blackhawk”
“On Louis Armstrong in a Playboy magazine interview.”
“You can't play anything on a horn that Louis hasn't played.”
“The music has gotten thick. Guys give me tunes and they're full of chords. I can't play them...I think a movement in jazz is beginning away from the conventional string of chords, and a return to emphasis on melodic rather than harmonic variation. There will be fewer chords but infinite possibilities as to what to do with them. About the new modal style. Interviewed by The Jazz Review (1958); Quotes in Paul Maher, Michael K. Dorr (2009) Miles on Miles: Interviews and Encounters with Miles Davis, p. 18.”
“Quoted in: Jazz Journal International, (1983), p. 12.”
“Is that what you wanted, Alfred? Miles Davis asking Blue Note producer Alfred Lion 's approval of a recorded performance in Rudy Van Gelder 's studio. Miles' was included at the end of "One For Daddy”
“columns, c. 1957, in response to”
“Relaxin' with the Miles Davis Quintet”
“I’ll play it and tell you what it is later. In Szwed, John (2012).  So What: The Life of Miles Davis . Random House. ISBN 9781448106462 . , and in many other books Sometimes rendered as: I'll play it ' first and tell you what it is later.”
“El arte puede vencer a la Naturaleza, si el artista sabe exprimirse por todas partes”
“The anecdote is also described in William Stanyon, Bible Stories & Parables, with a Lesson On, What is Religion? (1884), p. 18 but is only attributed to "a sculptor" and not to Michelangelo specifically.”
“I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free. Widely attributed but of uncertain provenance. The anecdote of Michelangelo "seeing the angel" is related in Ambition: A Journal of Inspiration to Self Help (January 1916), Volume 11 Issue 1; and in Walter Clemow Lanyon , London Notes and Lectures (1928), p. 13.”
“Every beauty which is seen here below by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.”
“Translation: That fount of mercy, whence we all exist, Every beauty seen here [on earth] resembles, More than anything else to knowing persons; Translated by Luciano Rebay, Invitation to Italian Poetry (1969), p. 77”
“Veggio nel tuo bel viso, Signor mio”
“As when, O lady mine, With chiseled touch The stone unhewn and cold Becomes a living mold, The more the marble wastes, The more the statue grows. Sonnet addressed to Vittoria Colonna ; tr. Mrs. Henry Roscoe (Maria Fletcher Roscoe), Vittoria Colonna: Her Life and Poems (1868), p. 169.”
“I was never the kind of painter or sculptor who kept a shop. As quoted in In Our Time : The Artist , BBC Radio 4 (28 March 2002).”
“As quoted in Character Sketches: Or, The Blackboard Mirror (1890) by George Augustus Lofton , p. 432.”
“Beauty is the purgation of superfluities. Letter to Rene Lui Descartes XIV”
“the quill cannot express good will.”
“I know my race. I just look in the mirror. I know I'm black. 9 July 2002 remarks at National Action Network headquarters”
“The record companies really do conspire against the artists. They steal. They cheat. They do whatever they can, especially the black artists.… Sony's Tommy Mottola is the president of the record division. He is mean. He is a racist, and he's very, very, very devilish. 6 July 2002 remarks at National Action Network headquarters”
“I have begun to see that even my father's harshness was a kind of love. An imperfect love, to be sure, but love nonetheless. He pushed me because he loved me, because he wanted no man to ever look down at his offspring. Now with time, rather than bitterness I feel blessing.… My initial fury has slowly given way to forgiveness. "Heal the Kids" speech at the Oxford Union”
“I have no problem with them imitating [me]. It's a compliment. Everybody has to start out looking up to someone. For me it was James Brown, Sammy Davis Jr., Jackie Wilson, Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly. On pop groups like N'Sync , as quoted in interview in TV Guide”
“. Walters : How do you feel when people call you... Jackson : Yeah,”
“Do not judge a person, Do not pass a judgement on anyone unless you've talked to them one”
“Dead stars and classic art will surround Michael Jackson”
“I feel fortunate for being that instrument through which music flows. I'm just the source through which it comes. I can't take credit for it because it's God's work. He's just using me as the messenger. May 1992 Ebony/Jet interview with Robert E. Johnson”
“I'm an alien from Mars and I eat live chickens and do a voodoo dance at midnight,”
“Michael Jackson”
“Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess? Letter to Bettina von Arnim”
“Music is indeed the mediator between the spiritual and sensual life. Attributed to Beethoven by Bettina von Arnim in a letter to Goethe (28 May 1810); Goethe's Correspondence with a Child”
“Goethe's Briefwechsel mit einem Kinde: Seinem Denkmal , Volume 2, Dümmler, 1835, p. 193.”
“As reported by Bettina von Arnim in a letter to Goethe , 28 May 1810.”
“Musik höhere Offenbarung ist als alle Weisheit und Philosophie. [1] Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.”
“Nur das Reine im Herzen kann eine gute Suppe machen. Only the pure in the heart can make a good soup.”
“Music is like a dream. One that I cannot hear. Conversations”
“...thus do I take my farewell of thee”
“There ought to be but one large art warehouse in the world, to which the artist could carry his art”
“I want to seize fate by the throat. Letter to F.G. Wegeler, 16 November, 1801.”
“When you're sick [due to drug withdrawal], music is a great help. Once in Texas, I kicked a [heroin] habit on weed, a pint of paregoric, and a few Louis Armstrong records. William S. Burroughs , Junky (1953), Chapter 12”
“When Louis Armstrong, according to a few of his biographies, came to Chicago he was wearing a suit, the pants of which were about three inches too short, his white socks showed, he had these brogans on and he wore a derby hat. He got up on the stage and all the musicians laughed until he started to play. When he finished playing, the next day all the musicians went out and bought some pants three inches too short, some white socks and some brogan shoes and a derby hat, you understand. Louis Armstrong was on J”
“True revolution in music took place, as far as I can see it, took place only a few times, three times in this century. One was the revolution that took place aided and abetted if not instigated by Louis Armstrong. Louis Armstrong did something with the trumpet that had never been done. Things that have become so casual, so common to our ears now, Louis Armstrong introduced. Maya Angelou , 1977 interview in Conversations with Maya Angelou”
“The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician. Things like old folks singing in the moonlight in the back yard on a hot night or something said long ago.”
“Man, if you gotta ask you'll never know.”
“If you still have to ask, shame on you Armstrong's response to the question what jazz is, cited by Max Jones et. al. : "Salute to Satchmo", I.P.C. Specialist & Professional Press Ltd 1970, page 25”
“Making money ain't nothing exciting to me. ... You might be able to buy a little better booze than some wino on the corner. But you get sick just like the next cat, and when you die you're just as graveyard dead as he is. Ebony magazine , November 1964”
“The way they're treating my people in the South, the government can go to hell . As quoted in The New York Times (19 September 1967)]”
“Hey Pops, what you mean 'What a wonderful world '? How about all them wars all over the place? You call them wonderful? And how about hunger and pollution? That aint so wonderful either.”
“The Brick House was one of the toughest joints I ever played in ... Guys would drink and fight one another like circle saws. Bottles would come flying over the bandstand like crazy and there was lots of plain common shooting and cutting. But somehow all that jive didn't faze me at all. I was so happy to have some place to blow my horn. Satchmo: My Life in New Orleans”
“truovasi di miglio i(n) miglio bone osteriee. ( Ancient Italian ) You can find good taverns from mile to mile.”
“At once two things came to mind: fear and desire: fear of the threatening dark cave, desire to see if there was anything miraculous within it.”
“Fa vini potenti e assai, … e ‘l vino vale el più uno soldo il boccale e la libbra della vitella un soldo e ‘l sale 10 dinari, e ‘l simile il burro, ed è la loro libbra 30 once, e l’ova un soldo la soldata. ( Modern Italian ) He makes powerful and very strong wines, … and the wine is worth more than a penny per jug and the pound of veal a penny and the salt 10 denarii, and so is the butter, and their pound is 30 ounces, and the eggs a penny.”
“It is the infinite alone that cannot be attained, for if it could it would become finite. Thoughts on Art and Life , by Leonardo da Vinci ,”
“As a day well spent makes sleep seem pleasant, so a life well employed makes death pleasant. A life well spent is long.”
“Thou, O God, sellest us all benefits, at the cost of our toil....”
“Look at the grace and sweetness of men and women in the street...”
“The painter strives and competes with nature...There is nothing in all nature without its reason. If you know the reason, you do not need the experience...”
“Oysters open completely when the moon is full; and when the crab sees one it throws a piece of stone or seaweed into it and the oyster cannot close again so that it serves the crab for meat. Such is the fate of him who opens his mouth too much and thereby puts himself at the mercy of the listener. As quoted in The 48 Laws of Power (2000) by Robert Greene, p. 33”
“Painting is poetry which is seen and not heard, and poetry is a painting which is heard but not seen. These two arts, you may call them both either poetry or painting, have here interchanged the senses by which they penetrate to the intellect . A Treatise on Painting (1651); "The Paragone"; compiled by Francesco Melzi prior to 1542, first published as Trattato della pittura by Raffaelo du Fresne”
“Our society is run by insane people”
“We thought being offered the M.B.E. [Member of the Order of the British Empire] was as funny as everybody else thought it was. Why? What for? We didn't believe it. It was a part we didn't want. We all met and agreed it was daft. Quoted by Hunter Davies in The Beatles”
“I am he as you are he as you are me And we are all together I Am the Walrus ,”
“Very rich. Asked how he felt about a Beatles' Shea Stadium concert not selling out; Pop Chronicles : Show 38”
“I suppose if I had said television was more popular than Jesus, I would have gotten away with it. I'm sorry I opened my mouth. I'm not anti”
“Christianity will go.. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now ; I don't know which will go first”
“One cave she wolf go too farther, and I wolf leaf her”
“It was a load of rubbish. It was like meeting Engelbert Humperdinck . Later comments on meeting Elvis , as quoted in The Beatles: The Biography (2005) by Bob Spitz, p. 583.”
“There's only one person in the United States we ever wanted to meet … not that he wanted us. And we met him last night. We can't tell you how we felt. We just idolised him so much. … You can't imagine what a thrill that was last night. Nothing really affected me until I heard Elvis . If there hadn't been an Elvis, there wouldn't have been the Beatles. Statement (28 August 1965) after meeting Elvis Presley , as quoted in The Leading Men of MGM (2005) by Jane Ellen Wayne, p. 386; also partly quoted in The Beatles: The Authorized Biography (1968) by Hunter Davies, p. 19”
“The remark provoked warm laughter and applause, and was greeted with profound relief by Beatles manager Brian Epstein , who had feared Lennon would make good on his pre”
“Leonard Bernstein discusses material & structure in Bach's St. Matthew Passion,”
“Bach is the immortal God of Harmony. Ludwig van Beethoven”
“Not brook, but ocean should be his name (Bach is the German word for brook.) Ludwig van Beethoven”
“Toccata and Fugue in D minor”
“Annotation in a copy of the Calov Bible , cited from John Butt (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Bach (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997), p. 256; translation from ibid. , p. 46”
“Bei einer andächtigen Musik ist allezeit Gott mit seiner Gnaden Gegenwart. Where there is devotional music, God with his grace is always present.”
“Quoted in Ludwig Prautzsch Bibel und Symbol in den Werken Bachs , p. 7 [1] ; translation from Albert Schweitzer (trans. Ernest Newman ) J. S. Bach (New York: Dover, 1966), vol. 1, p. 167”
“Dem höchsten Gott allein zu Ehren, Dem Nächsten draus sich zu belehren. To the glory of the most high God alone, and that my neighbour may be educated thereby.”
“I accept the fact that the important painting of the last hundred years was done in France. American painters have generally missed the point of modern painting from beginning to end.. .Thus the fact that good European moderns [European artists who lived in the U.S. because of the Nazi”
“My work with Benton was important as something against which to react very strongly, later on; in this, it was better to have worked with him than with a less resistant personality who would have provided a much less strong opposition. At the same time Benton introduced me to Renaissance art. [remark on his former art”
“I can control the flow of paint; there is no accident.. Quoted in Ines Janet Engelmann Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner , Munich: Prestel Verlag (2007), p. 54”
“Pollock wrote this text on the back of a photo of himself taken in his own studio.”
“Technic is the result of a need new needs demand new technics total control denial of the accident States of order organic intensity energy and motion made visible memories arrested in space, human needs and motives acceptance Quote around 1948”
“When I am in my painting, I am not aware of what I'm doing. It is only after a short of 'get acquainted' period that I see what I have been about. I have no fears about making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through. It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess. Otherwise there is pure harmony, an easy give and take, and the painting comes out well. In 'Possibilities', Vol. 1, no 1, winter 1947”
“Jackson Pollock: is he the greatest living painter in the United States?”
“It came into existence because I had to paint it. Any attempt on my part to say something about it, to attempt explanation of the inexplicable, could only destroy it. [1947, on his painting 'She wolf'] As quoted in David Anfam Abstract Expressionism , London: Thames and Hudson (1990), p. 87”
“I believe easel painting to be a dying form, and the tendency of modern feeling is toward the wall picture or mural.. In his application for a grant given by the Guggenheim Foundation 1944; as quoted in Barbara Hess Abstract expressionism , Cologne: Taschen (2006), p. 9”
“As to what I would like to be. It is difficult to say. An Artist of some kind. If nothing else I shall always study the Arts. People have always frightened and bored me, consequently I have been within my own shell and have not accomplished anything materially. Quote in Pollock's letter, Los Angeles (October 22, 1929) to Charles and Frank published in Jackson Pollock & Family (2011) American Letters: 1927”
“Much of the music is a Merzbild , put together from whatever came to hand. I mean, for example...the Alberti”
“The phenomenon of music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the co”
“The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music; they should be taught to love it instead. Igor Stravinsky. "Subject: Music", New York Times Magazine , 9/27/64.”
“expressed in terms of”
“One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles. 1962, quoted in Andriessen and Schoenberger, The Apollonian Clockwork (1989). Oxford: Oxford University Press.”
“My music is best understood by children and animals . Igor Stravinsky. The Observer, Oct 8, 1961.”
“music, blamed for deserting”
“As for myself, I need music for hygienic purposes, for the health of my soul . Without music in its best sense there is chaos. For my part, music is a force which gives reason to things, a force which creates organization, which attunes things. Music probably attended the creation of the universe . The Musical Digest (1946) [1]”
“For I consider that music is, by its very nature , essentially powerless to express anything at all, whether a feeling, an attitude of mind, a psychological mood, a phenomenon of nature, etc. Expression has never been an inherent property of music. That is by no means the purpose of its existence. If, as is nearly always the case, music appears to express something, this is only an illusion and not a reality . It is simply an additional attribute which, by tacit and inveterate agreement, we have lent it, thrust upon it, as a label, a convention”
“What I am after, above all, is expression. Sometimes it has been conceded that I have a certain technical ability but that, my ambition being limited, I am unable to proceed beyond a purely visual satisfaction such as can be procured from the mere sight of a picture. But the purpose of a painter must not be conceived as separate from his pictorial means, and these pictorial means must be the more complete (I do not mean complicated) the deeper is his thought. I am unable to distinguish between the feeling I have for life and my way of expressing it. pp. 409”
“Suppose I want to paint a woman's body: first of all I imbue it with grace and charm, but I know that I must give something more. I will condense the meaning of this body by seeking its essential lines. The charm will be less apparent at first glance, but it must eventually emerge from the new image which will have a broader meaning, one more fully human. p. 48”
“The simplest means are those which best enable an artist to express himself. His means of expression must derive almost all of necessity from his temperament. p. 39”
“What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity, devoid of troubling or disturbing subject matter, an art which could be for every mental worker, for the businessman as well as the man of letters, for example, a soothing, calming influence on the mind, something like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue. p. 38”
“There is an impelling proportion of tones that may lead me to change the shape of a figure or to transform my composition. Until I have achieved this proportion in all the parts of a composition I strive towards it and keep on working. Then a moment comes when all the parts have found their definite relationships, and from then on it would be impossible for me to add a stroke to my picture without having to repaint it entirely. p. 38”
“I simply try to put down colours which render my sensation. p. 38”
“For me all is in the conception. I must therefore have a clear vision of the whole from the beginning. p. 37”
“Underlying this succession of moments which constitutes the superficial existence of beings and things, and which is continually modifying and transforming them, one can search for a truer, more essential character, which the artist will seize so that he may give to reality a more lasting interpretation. p. 37”
“Rules have no existence outside of individuals: otherwise a good professor would be as great a genius as Racine . p. 2”
“I see with horror that the 'Salon Automne' is looming, for I haven't got, and shan't have, all I meant to be able to show there, the big stillife ['Harmony in Red'] has taken up so much of my time; but since I am content with the outcome, I tell myself one can't hope to be fast as well as good. Letter to Sergei Shchukin [the Russian buyer of his still”
“The spectacle of beauty, in whatever form it appears, raises the mind to noble aspirations.”
“Gold is the color of eternity.”
“I have never painted a self-portrait. I am less interested in myself.”
“Beauty is an expression of the soul.”
“My paintings are my biography.”
“The decorative arts are the equal of the fine arts.”
“There is nothing special about me. I am a painter who paints day after day.”
“I am less interested in myself as a subject for painting than I am in other people, above all women.”
“Whoever wants to know something about me — as an artist, the only notable thing — ought to look at my pictures.”
“All art is erotic.”
“Art is a line around your thoughts.”
“He estado sola tanto tiempo que estoy acostumbrada, pero no me gusta.”
“Cuando tomas una flor en tus manos y realmente la miras, ese es tu mundo por un momento.”
“School and things that painters have taught me even keep me from painting as I want to. I decided I was a very stupid fool not to be at least paint as I wanted to and say what I wanted to when I painted as that seemed to be the only thing I could do that didn't concern anybody but myself.. .I found that I could say things with colour and shapes that I couldn't say in any other way things that I had no words for. 'Foreword' of the catalogue for the show at the Anderson Galleries in New York, 1926”
“I thought you could write something about me that men can't”
“I have been thinking of what you say about form.. .I feel that a real living form is the natural result of the individual’s effort to create the living thing out of the adventure of his spirit into the unknown.. ..and from that experience comes the desire to make the unknown known. By unknown I mean the thing that means so much to the person that he want to put it down”
“As I opened the door”
“The plains are very wonderful now”
“Walked way out in the plains in the moonlight”
“Your letter became before I was up this morning”
“Last night I couldn't sleep till after four in the morning”
“Today I walked into the sunset”
“Anita, I have just come the comforting conclusion that I'll have to paint acres and acres of water color landscapes before I will look for even a passably fair one. After about ten attempts”
“Mexican Autobiography”
“Since Trotsky came to Mexico I have understood his error. I was never a Trotskyist. Diary illustration, dated 4 November 1952 [3] [4]”
“I have suffered two grave accidents in my life, one in which a streetcar knocked me down... The other accident is Diego. Quote in Imagen de Frida Kahlo by Gisèle Freund in Novedades (Mexico City)”
“México en la Cultura”
“In 1946 Frida painted 'The Little Deer', her self”
“I am a poor little deer. written line on a photograph she gave Diego.”
“Una pintora extraordinaria,”
“I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim. Quote in a letter to Ella Wolfe , "Wednesday 13," 1938, as cited in Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo by Hayden Herrera (1983) ISBN 0”
“I’m more and more convinced it’s only through communism that we can become human. Quote of Frida Kahlo, in her letter from US, during the 1930s, from [1]”
“A little while ago, not much more than a few days ago, I was a child who went about in a world of colors, of hard and tangible forms. Everything was mysterious and something was hidden, guessing what it was was a game for me. If you knew how terrible it is to know suddenly, as if a bolt of lightning elucidated the earth. Now I live in a painful planet, transparent as ice; but it is as if I had learned everything at once in seconds. Quote of Frida Kahlo, in her letter to Alejandro Gómez Arias, 29 September 1926”
“Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano! As quoted in Chopin and the Swedish Nightingale .”
“Time is still the best critic, and patience the best teacher. As quoted in Chopin : Pianist and Teacher as Seen by His Pupils .”
“One needs only to study a certain positioning of the hand in relation to the keys to obtain with ease the most beautiful sounds, to know how to play long notes and short notes and to [attain] certain unlimited dexterity... A well formed technique, it seems to me, [is one] that can control and vary a beautiful sound quality. As quoted in Chopin : Pianist and Teacher as Seen by His Pupils .”
“I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness, but I take a kind of pleasure in indulging them. As quoted in Chopin .”
“I'm a revolutionary, money means nothing to me. Quoted in Arthur Hedley , Chopin (1947).”
“My piano has not yet arrived. How did you send it? By Marseilles or by Perpignan? I dream music but I cannot make any because here there are not any pianos . . . in this respect this is a savage country. Letter to Camille Pleyel .”
“No one other than I has read your letter. As always, even now, I carry your letters with me. How blissful it will it be for me, having gone beyond the city walls in May, thinking about my approaching journey, to pull out a letter of yours and assure myself sincerely that you love me, or at least to gaze at the hand and the writing of him, whom only I am able to love! Chopin to Tytus Woyciechowski, 27 March 1830”
“I'm glad that the secret is submerged in my heart, that in me is the end of what is for you the beginning. And be glad that you have in me an abyss into which you can cast everything without fear”
“Give me a kiss, dearest lover. I'm certain that you still love me, and I fear you always, like some tyrant over me. I don't know why, but I fear you. Upon my word, only you have power over me, you and... no one else. Chopin to Tytus Woyciechowski, 5 October 1830”
“I would have loved to have been on the Band Aid record but I only heard about it when I was in Germany. I don’t know if they would have had me on the record anyway, because I’m a bit old. I’m just an old slag who gets up every morning, scratches his head and wonders what he wants to fuck. As quoted in "Blame it on Rio" by Robin Smith, in Record Mirror (26 January 1985) .”
“Hello everybody! Hey hey hey! Okay! Do you know it's not... it's not very often that we do shows in daylight. And I fucking wish we'd done before, I can see you all now. And there's some beauties here tonight, I can tell you! Live at Milton Keynes Bowl (5 June 1982) .”
“Listen, if you guys wanna move around and shift your asses a little, it's okay. It's okay by us, right? You can take all your clothes off if you like too, doesn't matter... Fuck off! [laughs] During a concert in Montreal, Canada, (24 or 25 November 1981), first released as videotape We Will Rock You (1984) , and later on DVD as Queen Rock Montreal (2007).”
“The Man Who Would Be Queen”
“For A Song : The Mercury that's rising in rock is Freddie the satiny seductor of Queen”
“Queen's Freddie Mercury Shopping For An Image In London”
“I hate pockets in trousers … By the way, I do not wear a hose. My hose is my own. No coke bottle, nothing stuffed down there. As quoted in NME (2 November 1974) .”
“I'm as gay as a daffodil, my dear!”
“Standing Up For Queen”
“It all began with the three wise men, followed a star took them to Bethelehem, and made it heard throughout the land”
“Me es muy odioso inventar para otro... Fray Manuel (Bayeu) no necesita que otro le invente”
“La casa es la sepultura de las mujeres”
“El mayor enemigo de los aragoneses son los aragoneses”
“By painting colours and lines and forms seen in a quickened mood I was seeking to make this mood vibrate as a phonograph does. In: Diary Saint Cloud, 1898; Munch, as quoted in Edvard Much”
“Nothing ceases to exist”
“Realism's 'truth' as embodied in painting and literature now solely consists of things capable of being seen by the eye or heard by the ear. Realism is concerned only with the external shell of nature. People content with the discoveries they have made ignore the fact that there are other things to be discovered, even broader avenues to be explored. They have found bacteria, but not what they consist of. [quote of 1892) OKK 1760 (Nice, January 1892); as quoted in Edvard Much”
“I was walking along a path with two friends”
“When seen as a whole, art derives from a person's desire to communicate himself to another. I do not believe in an art which is not forced into existence by a human being’s desire to open his heart. All art, literature, and music must be born in your heart’s blood. Art is your heart’s blood. Manuscript (1891); as quoted in Edvard Munch and the Physiology of Symbolism (2002) by Shelley Wood Cordulack”
“Quotes from his text: 'Saint Cloud Manifesto', Munch (1889): as quoted in Edvard Much”
“I thought I should make something”
“No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love. Quote from Munch's text (1889) 'Impressions from a ballroom, New Year's Eve in St. Cloud'”
“Life here [in Paris, 1885] is quite different. You hardly ever see a dog on a lead; you come across little wagons being pulled by dogs that are often so small that you can't imagine how on earth they manage to shift such enormous weights. You see shepherdesses in the middle of the street herding goats and sometimes playing on their flutes. I think I'll go to the Louvre and the Salon today. Quote in Munch's letter (1885); as cited in Edvard Munchs Brev, Familien , Oslo: Tanum, 1949, p. 57”
“I am at work on a girl . It is quite simple a girl getting up on the edge of her bed and pulling on her stockings. The bed is whitish, and in addition there are white sheets, a white nightdress, a bedside table with a white cover, white curtains and a blue wall. [as model for his painting 'Morning', 1884] Quote in Munch's letter to Olav Paulsen , September 1884; as cited in Edvard Much”
“Nota: Comentario de Manet a Antonin Proust en 1862.”
“Playing "Bop" is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing. Look (August 10, 1954).”
“My band is my instrument more than the piano. From an interview with Richard O. Boyer , as cited in "The Hot Bach”
“I know what sounds well on a trombone and I know what sounds well on a trumpet and they are not the same. [...] I know what Tricky Sam can play on a trombone and I know what Lawrence Brown can play on a trombone and they are not the same either.”
“[Y]ou've got to write with certain men in mind. You write just for their abilities and natural tendencies and give them places where they do their best”
“You can't write music right [...] until you know how the man that'll play it plays poker.”
“[Expressing a liking for trains] Folks can't rush you until you get off.”
“As Bach says [...] if you ain't got a left hand, you ain't worth a hoot in hell.”
“[Sights enabling musical inspiration] The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician [...] Things like the old folks singing in the moonlight in the back yard on a hot night, or something someone said long ago. I remember I once wrote a sixty”
“I think of music sometimes in terms of color [...] and [in a furnace] I like to see the flames licking yellow in the dark and then pulsing down to a kind of red glow.”
“It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing). Song title (1932).”
“To paint is to think with the brush.”
“The greatest art comes from the simplest observations.”
“Every portrait is a self-portrait of the artist.”
“A painter must learn to see, not just to look.”
“The nobility of painting lies in its ability to capture the truth of the moment.”
“Nature is the best teacher for any painter.”
“I would rather be the first painter of common things than the second in higher art.”
“I have had Three Masters”
“Velazquez's remark is to the Italian contemporary painter Salvator Rosa”
“Raphael , to be plain with you, for I prefer to be candid and outspoken, does not please me at all.. ..It is Titian that bears the banner. As quoted by Hugh Stokes in Francisco Goya , Herbert Jenkins Limited Publishers, London, 1914, p 71”
“My art is my life, and my life is Mexico.”
“Art is not for the elite; it belongs to everyone.”
“I paint what I see, what I feel, and what I believe.”
“The mural is the art of the people, for the people, by the people.”
“I have always believed that art is a weapon of social struggle.”
“Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany on January 30, 1933, and almost immediately the Left press in the United States began to publish cartoons hostile to his regime. But throughout the decade barely a handful of artists, whatever their political preferences, addressed the increasingly virulent outbreaks of anti”
“Later on, I learned about the Mexican muralists that painted beautiful images on the walls of public buildings. Diego Rivera , Orozco, Tamayo, and others. Alfredo Arreguín letter”
“Diego Rivera: A Man and His Murals”
“Here in Mexico…I find that very simple intuitive persons, in common with a highly sophisticated and prepared type, accept my way of painting. But the bourgeois mind (here as elsewhere called “cultured,” I believe does not. This bourgeois mind of Mexico is that of a special virulence, for being mixed in race for only a few generations, it is also lamentably mixed in its ‘culture.’ It is, in a word, saturated with European bad taste, the finer European influences having been almost wholly rejected by the Creole of Mexico… On how his work was received Mexico”
“When we began, we had no opportunities; we prepared in silence and created our own opportunity. On making your own artistic opportunities in the book Conversations with Diego Rivera: The Monster in His Labyrinth”
“as though I had a lot of years behind me. Now I do, so there is a difference in the weight of memory. When you're young, you're still”
“David Bowie: An Obituary”
“Looking back at David Bowie's invaluable advice for young artists”
“Of course I do!!!! its some cunt in a clown suit.”
“Music has given me over 40 years of extraordinary experiences. I can't say that life's pains or more tragic episodes have been diminished because of it. But it's allowed me so many moments of companionship when I've been lonely and a sublime means of communication when I wanted to touch people . It's been both my doorway of perception and the house that I live in. I only hope that it embraces you with the same lusty life force that it graciously offered me. Commencement Address for the Berklee College of Music, at Hynes Convention Center, Boston, Massachusetts”
“I think fame itself is not a rewarding thing. The most you can say is that it gets you a seat in restaurants. Interviewed in Q magazine”
“Sermon From the Savoy”
“I get offered so many bad movies. And they're all raging queens or transvestites or Martians. 1983 Comment, quoted in Halliwell's Who's Who in the Movies 15th Edition (2003) by Leslie Halliwell, p. 60”
“I'm an instant star. Just add water and stir. Quoted in the chapter on Bowie in Valentines & Vitriol (1978) by Rex Reed”
“Fuck that. I want to be a superman.”
“The point is not to paint life, but to make painting alive.”
“I follow nature without being able to grasp her.”
“I must have flowers, always, and always.”
“The light changes constantly, and only the artist can capture it.”
“Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand.”
“I'm not performing miracles, I'm using up a lot of paint.”
“The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.”
“Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.”
“My life has been nothing but a failure.”
“In Paris one is too preoccupied by what one sees and what one hears, however strong one is; what I am doing here has, I think, the merit of not resembling anyone, because it is simply the expression of what I myself have experienced. in a letter to Frédéric Bazille from Etretat , December 1868; as cited in: Mary Tompkins Lewis (2007) Critical Readings in Impressionism and Post”
“One is too taken up with all that one sees and hears in Paris, however strong one is, and what I do here will at least have the merit of being unlike anyone else, at least I believe so, because it will simply be the expression of what I, and only I have felt. The further I get, the more I regret how little I know, that's what hinders me the most.. .I don't think I will spend much time in Paris now, a month at the very most, each year. in a letter to Frédéric Bazille ; as quoted in: K.E. Sullivan. Monet: Discovering Art, Brockhampton press, London (2004), p. 31.”
“There at the moment in Honfleur .. . Boudin and Jongkind are here; we get on marvelously. There's lots to be learned and nature begins to grow beautiful.. .I shall tell you I'm sending a flower picture to the exhibition at Rouen; there are very beautiful flowers at present. in a letter to Frédéric Bazille ; as cited in: Edward B. Henning, Cleveland Museum of Art. Creativity in art and science, 1860”
“It seems to me, when I see nature, that I see it ready made, completely written”
“It is beautiful here [in Etretat , Normandy], my friend; every day I discover even more beautiful things. It is intoxicating me, and I want to paint it all”
“By way of news, I can tell you that Couture , that bad”
“'..learn to draw: that's where most of you [Troyon's pupils] are falling down today.. ..draw with all your might; you can never learn too much. However, don’t neglect painting, go to the country from time to time and make studies and above all develop them..' [Monet is quoting in his letter Troyon , a friend of Boudin in Paris] in a letter to Eugène Boudin , 1859; as quoted in Discovering Art,”
“Monet wrote Boudin this letter just after he visited the 1859 Salon .”
“Among Troyon 's paintings there are two huge ones; Return to the Farm is marvelous with its beautiful stormy sky. There is much windy motion in the clouds, and the cows and dogs are very good. In Going to the Market you see the mist at sunrise. It's superb and, most of all, very luminous. The wide space in View from Surennes is amazing. You feel you are really in the countryside. 1859 letter to Eugène Boudin , June 3, 1859; as cited in Rodolphe Rapetti (1990) Monet, p. 11”
“I am surrounded by a small group of young landscapists who will be very happy get to know you. Besides, they are real painters... I find myself very well fixed here. I am drawing figures at hard. And at the Academy , there are only landscapists. They begin to perceive that it's a good thing. Quote of Monet, 1859 in a letter to his mentor Eugène Boudin ; as cited in: John Rewald (1961) The History of Impressionism”
“Si le viol, le poison, le poignard, l'incendie, N'ont pas encor brodé de leurs plaisants dessins Le canevas banal de nos piteux destins, C'est que notre âme, hélas! n'est pas assez hardie .”
“Hypocrite lecteur,”
“L’artiste, homme du monde, homme des foules et enfant”
“Delacroix était passionnément amoureux de la passion, et froidement déterminé à chercher les moyens d'exprimer la passion de la manière la plus visible. Dans ce double caractère, nous trouvons, disons”
“Hélas! tout est abîme,”
“Ébauche d’un épilogue pour la 2e édition,”
“La danse peut révéler tout ce que la musique recèle de mystérieux, et elle a de plus le mérite d'être humaine et palpable. La danse, c'est la poésie avec des bras et des jambs, ... Dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs. "La Fanfarlo" (1847) [4]”
“Nous avons psychologisé comme les fous, qui augmentent leur folie en s’efforçant de la comprendre. We have psychologized like the insane, who aggravate their madness in struggling to understand it. "La Fanfarlo" (1847) [3]”
“De l'héroïsme de la vie moderne,”
“Quelques mots d'introduction,”
“Painting is a way of seeing the soul.”
“There is no beauty without darkness.”
“The chiaroscuro of life is what gives it meaning.”
“Art must be born from observation, not imagination.”
“I seek the divine in the ordinary.”
“To paint is to capture a moment of truth.”
“Every brushstroke is a prayer.”
“The shadows are as important as the light.”
“I paint what I see, not what others want to see.”
“Good paintings are like good friends — they stay with you forever.”
“You never know how strong you are until being strong is your only choice.”
“The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.”
“Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.”
“Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?”
“In the abundance of water, the fool is thirsty.”
“Don't worry about a thing, cause every little thing gonna be all right.”
“The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.”
“Love the life you live. Live the life you love.”
“Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery. None but ourselves can free our minds.”
“One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.”
“Cosmo Listens to Records”
“I find it easy to write songs. I been writing songs for a long time and the words to the songs aren't written out just for the paper; they're written as you can read it, you dig. If you take whatever there is to the song away”
“You don't necessarily have to write to be a poet. Some people work in gas stations and they're poets. I don't call myself a poet because I don't like the word. I'm a trapeze artist. Bob Dylan Interview by Nora Ephron & Susan Edmiston”
“Then I asked this cat,”
“a poem is a naked person . . . some people say that I am a poet Liner notes , Bringing It All Back Home”
“Advice for Geraldine on Her Miscellaneous”
“I am a writer an a singer of the words I write I am no speaker nor any politician an my songs speak for me because I write them in the confinement of my own mind an have t cope with no one except my own self. Letter sent to the ECLC after Dylan received the Tom Paine Award at the Bill of Rights dinner on December 13, 1963, as reported in "Mr. Dylan Regrets" by Niall Stokes, Hot Press”
“There's no black and white, left and right to me anymore; there's only up and down and down is very close to the ground. And I'm trying to go up without thinking about anything trivial such as politics. They has got nothing to do with it. I'm thinking about the general people and when they get hurt. Address to the Emergency Civil Liberties Committee”
“Only Human Driftin' And Learnin'”
“Anything I can sing, I call a song. Anything I can't sing, I call a poem. Liner notes , The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan”
“Aretha Franklin on IMDb”
“Official Website”
“Congressman John Lewis on Aretha Franklin: ‘One of God’s precious gifts’”
“In order to become Aretha Franklin you really have to be able to assess an inheritance and find yourself able to use it. 1980 interview in Conversations with James Baldwin edited by Louis H. Pratt and Fred L. Standley”
“You walked in on the sly Scopin' for love In the crowd, I caught your eye You can't hide your stuff. You came to catch You thought I'd be naive and tame You met your match I beat you at your own game. " Who's Zoomin' Who ", written with Preston Glass and Narada Michael Walden , from Who's Zoomin' Who?”
“Step n' move your hips With a feelin' from side to side Sit yourself down in your car And take a ride. And while you're movin' Rock steady Rock steady baby. Let's call this song exactly what it is (What it is”
“I want to be what he wants when he wants it, and whenever he needs it And when he's lonesome and feelin' love starved I'll be there to feed it I'm givin' him a little bit for each day He turns me right on when I hear him say (Hey baby let's get away, let's go somewhere far) (Baby can we?) Well I don't care. " Day Dreaming ", from Young”
“People walkin' around everyday, Playin' games and takin' scores. Tryin' to make other people lose their minds. Well be careful you don't lose yours. Oh think (think) Think about what you're tryin' to do to me. Woo”
“(Sweet Sweet Baby) Since You've Been Gone”
“Music is the art of combining sounds in a way that pleases the ear.”
“Music is the art of the soul and the science of the heart.”
“With Antonio Vivaldi, Italian Baroque music reached its zenith. The prosperous, cultivated world of contemporary Venice shines through all his works, composed with innate craftsmanship. Gramophone (April 28, 2022) [1]”
“Are you interested in the current revival of eighteenth”
“Caricaturists of all countries I have a great interest in; I like to observe what happens to an artist's vision when there is a deliberate distortion for the viewer. This is found in Italian art and in much Italian music. Vivaldi sometimes uses caricature in a very serious and grim sense, not at all comic.”
“Judging Composers: High Notes, and Low”
“Italians have such illustrious people they can celebrate, that everyone celebrates”
“An ironic note written upon an aria score of his opera Orlando Furioso (1727).”
“Quoted in: Michael Talbot (1978) Vivaldi, p. 90”
“Se questa non piace, non voglio più scrivere di musica. Translation: If you don't like this, I'll stop writing music.”
“As quoted by Victor Bockris in his book, Warhol: the Biography (2003), p. 327 . Bockris, Victor (August 12, 2003).  Warhol: the Biography . p. 327 . Retrieved on October 31, 2019 .”
“Scripts bore me. It's much more exciting not to know what's going to happen. I don't think that plot is important. If you see a movie of two people talking, you can watch it over and over again without being bored. You get involved”
“Pelé is one of the few who contradicted my theory [...] Instead of 15 minutes of fame, he will have 15 centuries. Cited in Pelé's New York Times obituary”
“When asked about this quote, he would corrupt it intentionally, including:”
“This quotation has produced a common cliché about fame in pop”
“In the future everyone will be world”
“If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface; of my paintings and films and me, and there I am. There's nothing behind it. In: Andy, My true Story 3, Gretchen Berg, Los Angeles Free Press (17 March 1967); as quoted in Andy Warhol, retrospective , New York and Boston Museum of modern Art & Bullfinch Press / Little Brown, 1989, pp. 457”
“The farther West we drove [to California, Fall of 1963, with Gerard Malanga , Wynn Chamberlain , and Taylor Mead for an opening of Warhol's 'Liz & Elvis paintings' at the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles], the more Pop everything looked on the highways. Suddenly we all felt like insiders because even though Pop was everywhere”
“The reason I'm painting this way is that I want to be a machine, and I feel that whatever I do and do machine”
“Andy Warhol : I think everybody should like everybody. Gene Swenson: Is that what Pop Art is all about? Andy Warhol: Yes, it's liking things. Quote in 'What is Pop Art? Answers from 8 Painters', in Art News 62”