Theatre Designer

🇬🇧David Hockney

Art

pop art

1937–2026

"The choice is not between drugs and no drugs, but between illegal drugs and legal drugs. Until the 1920s drugs were legal, why not now? Lots of people are on drugs anyway — it is called medication."

Karl Friedrich Schinkel

Art

Greek Revival architecture

1781–1841

"Indifference to the fine arts comes close to barbarism."

🇫🇷Fernand Léger

Art

cubism

1881–1955

"Isn't it human to go beyond the limits, to grow beyond oneself, to strive toward freedom! The round is free."

🇪🇸Joan Miró

Art

Surrealism

1893–1983

"In the current struggle I see the antiquated forces of fascism on one side, and on the other, those of the people, whose immense creative resources will give Spain a drive that will amaze the world."

🇪🇸Pablo Picasso

Art

Post-impressionism

1881–1973

"You mustn't alway believe what I say", he once told me. "Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer."

🇬🇧Edward Gordon Craig

Entertainment

1872–1966

"I believe in the time when we shall be able to create works of art in the Theatre without the use of the written play, without the use of actors."

🇪🇸Salvador Dalí

Art

Surrealism

1904–1989

"There was nothing left between me and the void. I must have spent several minutes lying on my stomach with my eyes closed to resist its almost invincible attraction."

🇫🇷Robert Delaunay

Art

Neo-impressionism

1885–1941

"Light in nature creates movement in color. The movement is provided by the relationships of uneven measures, of colors contrasts among themselves and constitutes Reality ."

🇭🇺László Moholy-Nagy

Art

Constructivism

1895–1946

"The experience of space is not a privilege of the gifted few, but a biological function."

🇫🇷Pierre Soulages

Art

abstract art

1919–2022

"I have always thought that he more limited the means, the stronger the expression. That may explain the choice of a small palette."

Alexander Rodchenko

Art

cubism

1891–1956

"One has to take several different shots of a subject, from different points of view and in different situations, as if one examined it in the round rather than looked through the same key-hole again and again."

Karel Appel

Art

abstract expressionism

1921–2006

"..people always talk about painting, because basically painting does not talk."

Kazimir Malevich

Art

Suprematism

1879–1935

".. the overturning of the old world of arts will be etched across your 'palms'"

🇩🇪Lovis Corinth

Art

Expressionism

1858–1925

"My conscious motivation was to bring German art up to the highest level. I saw what the French artists could do since some time, we could do much more. I spoke in front of our youth, I can say with success."