Unlike a lot of choreographers, I don't always start with the music. I often start with a visual artist, and then find… — Wayne McGregor Copy Share Image
“Art doesn’t give rise to anything in us that isn’t already there. It simply stirs our curious consciousness and sparks a fire… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
Nature's purpose in relation to the visual arts is to provide stimulus not imitation. From its ceaseless urge to create springs all… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
I haven't had the opportunity to study visual art, but it was always my first love when it came to artistic expression.… — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
“One way to look at a painting—and I use that word as shorthand for visual art in general—is to notice as you… — David Salle Copy Share Image
Modernism has a reputation for being a forbidding phenomenon: its visual arts disconcertingly non-representational, its literary efforts devoid of the consolations of… — Will Self Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in visual art and used to be much more into theater when I was younger, or more knowledgeable… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
I have been interested in visual arts since high school and, after realising that I had absolutely no interest in the economics… — Patricia Piccinini Copy Share Image
Experiments in the visual arts (the invention of new ways of seeing things), are made because, due to the way the apparatus… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
As a gender variant visual artist I access 'technologies of gender' in order to amplify rather than erase the hermaphroditic traces of… — Del LaGrace Volcano Copy Share Image
What quality is shared by all objects that provoke our aesthetic emotions? Only one answer seems possible— significant form. In each, lines… — Clive Bell Copy Share Image
Khairani Barokka is a writer, spoken-word poet, visual artist and performer whose work has a strong vein of activism, particularly around disability,… — Deborah Smith Copy Share Image
Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Yes, a lot of European cinema and a lot of independent films and art-house stuff. She is a photographer. She is a… — Mia Wasikowska Copy Share Image
Obviously, something like ballet, you have music, you dance with the music and it's a very direct connection. With visual art, when… — Hilary Hahn Copy Share Image
I think the power of the short film is incredibly underrated. It is way easier to get someone to watch a 15-minute… — Nicholas Ozeki Copy Share Image
[My photography teacher] gave me the Mexican Day Books of Edward Weston and just blew me away with this work. The fact… — Max Pam Copy Share Image
There are some superficial things that connect me to the stream. There's instrumentation, there's timbre, use of electronics, the way that samples… — Missy Mazzoli Copy Share Image
Sometimes listening to music can motivate you. It can. But if you're a musician, that isn't always the way to get new… — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
Visual artists choreograph dances for the eyes, guiding visual journeys in specific ways. But when presented with little or nothing, the journeys… — John Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
I met Mary [Hamill] in New York at my exhibition and when I told her about my oral history project she asked,… — Chath Piersath Copy Share Image
I went to an arts school as a kid. We had to take dance every other day, along with drama, music and… — Jake Epstein Copy Share Image
![“[My photography teacher] gave me the Mexican Day Books of Edward Weston and just blew me away with this work. The fact that you could be this fabulous visual artist, with all this milieu of people like Diego Rivera and you could sleep with these gorgeous, amazing women, that you could live that…” quote by Max Pam](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bb8/max-pam-75748_amazing-woman_my-photography-teacher-gave-me-the-mexic_670029.jpg)
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