“You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.”
[1]Maya Angelou (Born 1928)
“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.”
[2]Pablo Picasso (1881–1973)
“Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.”
[3]Twyla Tharp (Born 1941)
“Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.”
[4]Stephen Sondheim (Born 1930)
“If you surrender to the wind, you can ride it.”
[5]Toni Morrison (Born 1931)
“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious – the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.”
[6]Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
“Life beats down and crushes the soul, and art reminds you that you have one.”
[7]Stella Adler (1901-1992)
“There is no such thing in anyone’s life as an unimportant day.”
[8]Alexander Woollcott (1887-1943)
“Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.”
[9]Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004)
“You know, when I first went into the movies Lionel Barrymore played my grandfather. Later he played my father and finally he played my husband. If he had lived I’m sure I would have played his mother. That’s the way it is in Hollywood. The men get younger and the women get older.”
[10]Lillian Gish (1893–1993)
“The good die young, but not always. The wicked prevail but not consistently. I am confused by life, and I feel safe within the confines of the theatre”
[11]Helen Hayes (1900-1993)
“The artist’s job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence.”
[12]Woody Allen (Born 1935)
Photo Credits: Adler: Irene Gilbert; Allen: Terry Richardson; Angelou: Brian Lanker/Little Brown; Cartier-Bresson: Jane Bown; Einstein: Yousef Karsh; Gish: Getty Images; Hayes: Richard Avedon; Morrison: Princeton University; Picasso: Arnold Newman/Howard Greenberg Gallery; Tharp: Chester Higgins/The New York Times; Wilder: Gisele Freund; Woollcott: The New York Times Photo Archives