Studios Quotes - Page 36

• If a script writer had come up with a story resembling what you have just achieved, even the Hollywood studios would have refused.

  Lance Armstrong

  Hollywood, Stories, Scripts

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• I wanted to be in the FBI. I also wanted to be a pie salesman. It was so intense that the studio got the prop department to make a little pie wagon and they filled it with tarts. I wheeled it around the set and sold them to the crew. I was about eight years old. I always sold out and I didn't have to pay for them. It was a great deal.

  Shirley Temple

  Eight, Years, Pie

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• Often, very often, I am alone. My studio in Amsterdam, (Beckmann lived in the center of Amsterdam during World War 2.) an enormous old tobacco storeroom is again filled in my imagination with figures from the old days and from the new, like an ocean moved by storm and sun and always present in my thoughts. Then shapes become beings and seem comprehensible to me in the great void and uncertainty of the space which I call god.

  Max Beckmann

  War, Ocean, Space

  "On my painting". Max Beckmann's Speech during the exhibition 'Twentieth-Century German Art', London, July 21, 1938.

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• The film studios learned to our dismay but to their pleasure that if they spent $200 million making a film they could make half a billion on it. So they were not interested anymore in quality films... They can't afford to be that risky at those prices. Consequently you're getting a lot of remakes, sequels, dopey comedies full of toilet jokes...

  Woody Allen

  Quality, Half, Toilets

  "Woody Allen on Film Funding + Thoughts on Change". BBC Interview, www.youtube.com. 2011.

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• When, about fifteen years ago, I walked into Arshile's studio for the first time, the atmosphere was so beautiful that I got a little dizzy and when I came to, I was bright enough to take the hint immediately. If the bookkeepers think it necessary to make sure of where things and people came from, well then, I came from 36 Union Square. I am glad that it is about impossible to get away from his powerful influence.

  Willem de Kooning

  Beautiful, Powerful, Thinking

  ART news, Volume 47, No. 9, January 1949.

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• The point they (Lissitzky, Rodchenko, Tatlin, Gabo, the neo-Plasticists, and so on) all had in common was to be inside and outside at the same time. For me, to be inside and outside is to be in an unheated studio with broken windows in the winter, or taking a nap on somebody's porch in the summer.

  Willem de Kooning

  Summer, Winter, Naps

  "Abstract Expressionist Painting in America". Book by William C. Seitz, p. 134, 1983.

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• Personally I would like to have pupils, a studio, pass on my love to them, work with them, without teaching them anything.. ..A convent, a monastery, a phalanstery of painting where one could train together.. ..but no programme, no instruction in painting.. ..drawing is still alright, it doesn't count, but painting - the way to learn is to look at the masters, above all at nature, and to watch other people painting.

  Paul Cezanne

  Teaching, Drawing, People

  "Joachim Gasquet's Cézanne: A Memoir with Conversations". Book by Joachim Gasquet, Thames and Hudson, London, p. 124, in: 'What I know or have seen of his life', 1991.

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• On the left is the realist tradition of the 19th century, with its impulse to social description, radical criticism and meditation on things as they are... culminating in Courbet at his mightiest (The Studio, The Funeral at Ornans and a portrait of a trout that has more death in it than Rubens could get in a whole Crucifixion).

  Gustave Courbet

  Funeral, Meditation, Criticism

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• Mark Tobey fills his canvases with elliptical, calligraphic lines, beautiful whirls that seem at first glance to be completely abstract and to come from nowhere at all except his own subjective musing. But I shall never forget how struck I was, on visiting Tobey's studio one day, to see strewn around books on astronomy and photographs of the Milky Way. I knew then that Tobey experiences the movement of the stars and solar constellations as the external pole of his encounter.

  Rollo May

  Beautiful, Stars, Book

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• Not only were the minds of artists formed by the university; in the same mold were formed those of the art historians, the critics, the curators, and the collectors by whom their work was evaluated. With the rise of Conceptual art, the classroom announced its final triumph over the studio.

  Harold Rosenberg

  Art, Mind, Finals

  "Art and Other Serious Matters". Book by Harold Rosenberg. Chapter: "American Drawing", pp. 247-248, 1985.

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• When a young woman tells me that she wants to become and actor, I say, 'No, be a writer. Or go to business school and learn how to run a studio.' The only real change will come from behind the scenes.

  Halle Berry

  Running, Real, School

  "Berry Almost Chose Bylines Over Marquees". Interview with Geoff Pevere, www.thestar.com. April 13, 2007.

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• The studios have their list of five actresses and whether they're right or wrong for a role doesn't matter. It's how much money their last movie made.

  Sherilyn Fenn

  Roles, Matter, Lasts

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I've been in every disco in the world. I saw a picture of my wife Shakira and I dancing in Studio 54; I didn't even know someone had taken that picture.

  Michael Caine

  Taken, Wife, Dancing

  "Michael Caine meets William Orbit". www.theguardian.com. October 14, 2007.

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• I've always wanted to have my own studio because this is a way for me to finally take all things that I've always dreamt about and actually put them into action.

  Ron Perlman

  Way, Action, Wanted

  Source: variety.com

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• I don't have a favorite place to see art. I like to encounter it anywhere, museum, gallery, home, studio, street... I do prefer to see good art, when I see art, but it doesn't matter where I see it.

  James Nares

  Art, Home, Museums

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• I was painting her portrait in the little studio, and when I came to the eyes I stopped, overcome by emotion, and said to her, 'Have you understood me?' She nodded affirmatively. 'Will you be my wife?' I asked. She made the same affirmative sign.

  Jules Breton

  Eye, Wife, Overcoming

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• I've started to experiment [in the studio] with texturing the canvas, building up the surface with large brushes, palette knife or fingers. I want to say more in my art.

  T. Allen Lawson

  Art, Building Up, Knives

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• The search which takes place in my studio might best be described as a mining operation, a vertical dig in which a number of discoveries are apt to surface from a single shaft.

  Abe Ajay

  Discovery, Numbers, Might

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• My studio is arranged so that I have a comfortable seating area for meeting with clients, an office area beyond that and a painting area, which includes room for art students to sit and watch as I work.

  Doug Dawson

  Art, Office, Watches

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• Gather and hoard your inspirations as you live, then recapture them as needed in the studio.

  Nita Engle

  Inspiration, Needed

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• A lot of sources said I was born in 1917. That is incorrect. I was born in 1920. 1917 was the year the studios listed as my birth year to make me appear younger.

  Laraine Day

  Years, Birth, Source

  "A Conversation with Laraine Day, Hollywood's Girl Next Door". The New York Times Interview, June 9, 1984.

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• My take on what happened with the moon landing was [......] they suspect [ sic ] that on impact that the cameras would be damaged because back in 1969 cameras weren't, you know, like they are today, as good. So they had a studio set up at CBS to mimic the moon landing. And sure enough the cameras broke and so they flipped, you know, the CBS studio on. And what you saw of the footage of the '69 moon landing was actually at CBS studio.

  Kent Hovind

  Moon, Impact, Cameras

  "Creation Evolution and Dinosaurs session #5 Q&A". January 2002.

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• Kun-Yang Lin is a young Taiwanese choreographer with strong American modern dance roots. (His) New York debut at the Cunningham studio were notable for their craft and sturdy spirituality.

  Jennifer Dunning

  Strong, New York, Roots

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• In England when you make a movie even the weather is against you. In Hollywood the weatherman gets a shooting schedule from all the major studios and then figures out where he can fit in a little rain without upsetting Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer too much.

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Rain, Weather

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Of course, it gave the studio an enormous power, because I don't know any other place who had that skill with images to communicate with. And the need of these kinds of images are even greater now than they ever were because we are losing our life symbols.

  John Hench

  Artist, Skills, Needs

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