Friday, October 24, 2008
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Abstract Photography
"Art is the signature of civilizations."
Beverly Sills
"An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision."
James McNeil Whistler
"Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks."
Simonides
"Art is a technique of communication. The image is the most complete technique of all communication."
Claus Oldenburg
"The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"When you start a painting, it is somewhat outside you. At the conclusion, you seem to move inside the painting."
Fernando Botero
'Abstract' literally means to draw from or separate. In this sense every artist is abstract... a realistic or non-objective approach makes no difference. The result is what counts."
Richard Diebenkorn
"Abstract art isn't simply a lack of realism. It's rather a heightened depiction of what the subject really is."
Curtis Verdun
"If you work with abstract painting for a period of time, you may come to think of it as a melody, a song, a piece of beautiful music."
Judy Betts
"I applied streaks and blobs of colours onto the canvas with a palette knife and I made them sing with all the intensity I could..."
Wassily Kandinsky
"Art is what delineates the technically-correct dancer from the dancer who has skill and passion!"
Curtis Verdun
"To become truly immortal, a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and commonsense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken, it will enter the realms of childhood visions and dreams."
Giorgio DeChirico
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Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Beautiful Flowers
I think it's a change that I did not intend at the time but it is clear that, from The Flower of My Secret on, there is a change in my films. A lot of the journalists have very generously attributed this to my growing maturity.
Pedro Almodovar
Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
Hans Christian Andersen
A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over.
Honore de Balzac
Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with a will which nothing can dismay nor turn aside.
Honore De Balzac
There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon.
Matsuo Basho
If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
Alan Bennett
To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour.
William Blake
The world is full of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.
Jacob Bronowski
Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks
Loveliest of lovely things are they on earth that soonest pass away. The rose that lives its little hour is prized beyond the sculptured flower.
William C. Bryant
I don't always wear underwear. When I'm in the heat, especially, I can't wear it. Like, if I'm wearing a flower dress, why do I have to wear underwear?
Naomi Campbell
I wanted to know the name of every stone and flower and insect and bird and beast. I wanted to know where it got its color, where it got its life - but there was no one to tell me.
George Washington Carver
Flower is the best gift you can give to anyone.... - Chetan sharma
Pedro Almodovar
Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
Hans Christian Andersen
A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over.
Honore de Balzac
Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with a will which nothing can dismay nor turn aside.
Honore De Balzac
There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon.
Matsuo Basho
If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
Alan Bennett
To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour.
William Blake
The world is full of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.
Jacob Bronowski
Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks
Loveliest of lovely things are they on earth that soonest pass away. The rose that lives its little hour is prized beyond the sculptured flower.
William C. Bryant
I don't always wear underwear. When I'm in the heat, especially, I can't wear it. Like, if I'm wearing a flower dress, why do I have to wear underwear?
Naomi Campbell
I wanted to know the name of every stone and flower and insect and bird and beast. I wanted to know where it got its color, where it got its life - but there was no one to tell me.
George Washington Carver
Flower is the best gift you can give to anyone.... - Chetan sharma
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