“You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.”
Maya Angelou (Born 1928)
“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.”
Pablo Picasso (1881–1973)
“Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.”
Twyla Tharp (Born 1941)
“Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.”
Stephen Sondheim (Born 1930)
“If you surrender to the wind, you can ride it.”
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.”
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
“Life beats down and crushes the soul, and art reminds you that you have one.”
Stella Adler (1901-1992)
“There is no such thing in anyone’s life as an unimportant day.”
Alexander Woollcott (1887-1943)
“Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.”
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.”
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”
Helen Hayes (1900-1993)
“The artist’s job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence.”
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
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