As an art form, opera is a rare and remarkable creation. For me, it expresses aspects of the human drama that cannot be expressed in any other way, or certainly not as beautifully.
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Their forms had no more influence on me than they did on Matisse. Or Derain. But for them, the masks were sculptures like all others. When Matisse showed me his first African head, he spoke to me of Egyptian art.
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I used to worship the mighty genius of Michael Angelo, that man who was great in poetry, painting, sculpture, architecture, great in every thing he undertook. But I do not want Michael Angelo for breakfast, for luncheon, for dinner, for tea, for supper, for between meals. I like a change, occasionally.
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My whole life has been nothing more than a continuous struggle against Reaction and the death of art.
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Art is starving, Prince. That must not-shall not be, within the limits of my small dominions. But the artist must be willing to work.
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I've mastered drawing and am looking for color; you've mastered color and are looking for drawing.
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A young artist must forget painting when he paints. That's the only way he will do original work.
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If I paint a hammer and sickle people may think it is a representation of Communism, but for me it is only a hammer and sickle. I just want to reproduce the objects for what they are, not for what they mean.
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In abandoning the vagueness of the sketch the artist shows more of his personality by revealing the range but also the limitations of his talent.
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We all know that the theater and every play that comes to Broadway have within themselves, like the human being, the seed of self-destruction and the certainty of death. The thing is to see how long the theater, the play, and the human being can last in spite of themselves.
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