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Acting deals with delicate emotions
Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide; he exposes himself.
New York Times, June 30, 1976
Was born on: 23.01.1928
About Author: French actress, singer, screenwriter and director
Almost everything is imitation
Art
Art
Art is a human activity having for its purpose the transmission to others of the highest and best feelings to which men have risen.
What is Art? (1896)
Was born on: 09.09.1828
About Author: Russian writer
Author Photo Source: US Library of Congress
Art and religion, then philosophy, then science
Art and religion first; then philosophy; lastly science. That is the order of the great subjects of life, that's their order of importance.
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, 1961
Was born on: 01.02.1918
About Author: Scottish novelist
Author Photo Source: MailOnline
Art is nothing without form
One must not always think that feeling is everything. Art is nothing without form.
Letter to Madame Louise Colet (August 12, 1846)
Was born on: 12.12.1821
About Author: French novelist and playwright
Artist's business
It is the artist's business to create sunshine when the sun fails.
Jean-Christophe (1904-1912)
Was born on: 29.01.1866
About Author: French dramatist, novelist, essayist, art historian and Nobel Prize for Literature in 1915
Be alive in your part
To be alive in your part, the character must come out throught your skin
Interview in Life, July 15, 1957
Was born on: 15.01.1926
About Author: Austrian actress
Became Picasso
Blessed be the inventor of photography
Dedication of an artist
The dedication of an artist involves willing oblivion to everything else while the art is being practiced, and for the hours contiguous to it.
The Finishing School, 2004
Was born on: 01.02.1918
About Author: Scottish novelist
Author Photo Source: MailOnline
Fashion
Fashion is born by small facts, trends, or even politics, never by trying to make little pleats and furbelows, by trinkets, by clothes easy to copy, or by the shortening or lengthening of a skirt.
Shocking Life, 1954
Was born on: 10.09.1890
About Author: Italian fashion designer
Author Photo Source: LIFE Magazine, John Phillips
First rule of opera
The first rule in opera is the first rule in life: see to everything yourself.
Melodies and Memories, 1925
Was born on: 19.05.1861
About Author: Australian opera soprano
Author Photo Source: Getty Images
Good business
Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art of all.
Was born on: 06.08.1928
About Author: American painter, printmaker, and filmmaker
Good comedy
Great work
A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.
Madesmoiselle, by Bruno Monsaingeon, 1985
Was born on: 16.09.1887
About Author: French composer, conductor and teacher
Author Photo Source: Bibliothèque nationale de France
How useless is painting
How useless is painting, which attracts admiration by the resemblance of things, the originals of which we do not admire!
The Pensées (1670)
Was born on: 19.06.1623
About Author: French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer and philosopher
Impossible to speak of art
Does it seem to you that it is possible to speak of Art? It would be the same as explaining love!
In "Actors on Acting," , part II, by Toby Cole and Helen Krich, 1970
Was born on: 03.10.1858
About Author: Italian actress
Make yourself believable
Melody and harmony
Music
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
William Shakespeare (1864)
Was born on: 26.02.1802
About Author: French poet, playwright, novelist, essayist, visual artist, statesman, human rights activist and exponent of the Romantic movement in France
Author Photo Source: Encyclopedia Britannica
Music is the greatest art form ever
Music is written in the blood of the composer
Music is not written in red, white and blue. It is written in the heart's blood of the composer.
Melodies and Memories, 1925
Was born on: 19.05.1861
About Author: Australian opera soprano
Author Photo Source: Getty Images
No longer create anything
When I can no longer create anything, I'll be done for
Coco Chanel; Her Life, Her Secrets, 1972
Was born on: 19.08.1883
About Author: French fashion designer and founder of the famous fashion brand Chanel
People are addicts
Some people are addicts. If they don't act, they don't exist.
International Herald Tribune, November 15, 1989
Was born on: 23.01.1928
About Author: French actress, singer, screenwriter and director
The fire in our hearths
What we find in books is like the fire in our hearths. We fetch it from our neighbors, we kindle it at home, we communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.
Lettres philosophiques (1733)
Was born on: 21.11.1694
About Author: French Enlightenment writer, historian and philosopher
The good and the well is thought to reside in the function
Things may not be immediately discernible
Those who create are rare
Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger.
This Week, August 20, 1961
Was born on: 19.08.1883
About Author: French fashion designer and founder of the famous fashion brand Chanel
Violin of human thought
If it is true that the violin is the most perfect of musical instruments, then Greek is the violin of human thought.
Letters to Mrs. Laurence Hutton Wrentham, February 20, 1898
Was born on: 27.06.1880
About Author: American author, political activist, and lecturer
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