I have the worst ear for criticism, even when I have created a stage set I like, I always hear the woman in the back of the dress circle, who says she doesn't like blue.
Cecil BeatonRead
More varied than any landscape was the landscape in the sky, with islands of gold and silver, peninsulas of apricot and rose against a background of many shades of turquoise and azure.
Interpretation
The sky presents a diverse and beautiful array of colors and elements, much like a magnificent landscape.
Cecil Beaton's quote paints a vivid picture of the sky's beauty, suggesting that it is more dynamic and varied than the earth's landscapes. He uses rich imagery to evoke the colors and textures found in the sky, implying that nature's artistry is unparalleled and continually changing, inviting contemplation and appreciation.
In practice
This quote could be used in an art class to discuss the importance of color in landscape painting.
I have the worst ear for criticism, even when I have created a stage set I like, I always hear the woman in the back of the dress circle, who says she doesn't like blue.
Never in the history of fashion has so little material been raised so high to reveal so much that needs to be covered so badly.
Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.
The truly fashionable are beyond fashion.
I have had three masters, Nature, Velasquez, and Rembrandt.
I don't feel there are enough women artists out there who are saying anything of tremendous relevance.
If you let the plot be determined by what you feel is in the character's mind at that point, it may not turn out to be a very good play, but at least it will be a play where people are behaving in a kind of truthful way.
If I were a first rate writer, I wouldn't mind a bit. What does depress me is this: it is so desperately hard and so obsessive and so lonely to write that, in return for all this work, one would like a little self satisfaction. And that is never going to come, for the simple reason that I do not deserve it. I cannot be a good enough writer. You see? I call it grim. But the future looks awfully clear to me.
I see my own style as being a symbiosis of the styles of Alekhine, Tal and Fischer.
In art, at a certain level, there is no 'better than.' It's just about trying to operate for yourself on the most supreme level, artistically, that you can and hoping that people get it.
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