Arts, Media & Entertainment: Art Quotes

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"Visual representation of it is essential if we're to come to terms with what it is we've done"

Alex Cox, Director

"One is just an interpreter of what the playwright thinks, and therefore the greater the playwright, the more satisfying it is to act in the plays"

Vivien Leigh, Actress

"To me, that is the essence of me as a photographer. It is those ideas, working with them, formulating them and eventually putting them down on paper, photographing them and then going on to the next step"

Kim Weston, Photographer

"The great thing about this thing we call art is that it has no rules"

Kim Weston, Photographer

"The gallery is generating work for the masses"

Kim Weston, Photographer

"The darkroom is just the means to an end"

Kim Weston, Photographer

"No matter how fast I could do it with the digital camera, I don't think I would get the same thing out of it. The passion I have for formulating an idea stands alone. It is the important essence of what I do"

Kim Weston, Photographer

"My surprises come usually once I start rolling and photographing"

Kim Weston, Photographer

"It doesn't matter what you do, as long as you're fulfilling that inner need, and for me the need is more the process than the finished product. My photographs are stories of the process"

Kim Weston, Photographer

"The one happiness is to shut one's door upon a little room, with a table before one, and to create; to create life in that isolation from life"

Eleanora Duse, Actress

"Classical plays require more imagination and more general training to be able to do. That's why I like playing Shakespeare better than anything else"

Vivien Leigh, Actress

"I am a great lover of art, in many forms: paintings, objets, textiles. I don't have the talent for painting, but I have a very good sense of colour, a love of visual beauty"

Jacqueline Bisset, Actress

"I try to make puzzles range all the way from easy to hard, and to leave many open at once"

Graham Nelson, Mathematician

"I don't really believe in 'directions' in art; the rope twists as you follow it, that's all"

Graham Nelson, Mathematician

"I think Edith Evans is the most marvelous actress in the world and she can look beautiful. People who aren't beautiful can look beautiful. She can look as beautiful as Diana Cooper, who was the most beautiful woman in the world"

Vivien Leigh, Actress

"I think any classical training in the theatre is of enormous value"

Vivien Leigh, Actress

"I loved fencing and dancing and elocution"

Vivien Leigh, Actress

"I don't know what that Method is. Acting is life, to me, and should be"

Vivien Leigh, Actress

"I adore dancing"

Vivien Leigh, Actress

"Comedy is much more difficult than tragedy-and a much better training, I think. It's much easier to make people cry than to make them laugh"

Vivien Leigh, Actress

"Despite a large body of work in films, TV, theatre and concerts, I am viewed by many as a Jewish artist. I do not resent the label, except for the fact that I disapprove of labels in general"

Theodore Bikel, Actor

"But, when I toil in the field of Jewish culture, which I frequently do, I am indeed a Jewish artist"

Theodore Bikel, Actor

"As an artist, I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government"

Theodore Bikel, Actor

"You'd look out and there'd be little babies watching the show, and boys and girls. They loved the cowboys, and they loved Annie. There were young people seeing the show for the first time. I stayed for two years because I enjoyed it so much"

Bernadette Peters, Actress

"You need to become a good listener. As you're working, you hear someone else's lines and how you absorb them becomes your acting"

Jacqueline Bisset, Actress

"The architect, Peter Arens, who is the monstrous carbuncle architect, not merely did his design which had won a public competition never get built, but his practice suffered financially for some years"

Anthony Holden, Journalist

"I come in. I'm going to sketch, I'm going to drape, I don't know what I'm going to do"

Geoffrey Beene, Designer

"Fashion is treated too much as news rather than what it is, what it does and how it performs"

Geoffrey Beene, Designer

"Designis a revelation to me. It's like taking something that is not alive and giving it form, shape, substance, and life"

Geoffrey Beene, Designer

"Design is an unknown"

Geoffrey Beene, Designer

"Clothes should look as if a woman was born into them. It is a form of possession, this belonging to one another"

Geoffrey Beene, Designer

"Clothes should be as interesting on the inside as on the outside. Even if you enjoy it totally alone, it's important"

Geoffrey Beene, Designer

"When something is moving, you get that intake of breath and that stillness from the audience"

Theodore Bikel, Actor

"I do prefer the stage. It's really the granddaddy of them all"

Theodore Bikel, Actor

"In front of the camera, I look and I see visually what I've created"

Kim Weston, Photographer

"Some people have compared the Klan images to ecclesiastical figures"

Andres Serrano, Photographer

"People have to find ways of explaining the work"

Andres Serrano, Photographer

"My work is intensely personal"

Andres Serrano, Photographer

"When I was 13 years old, a professional theater company in my town needed a kid actor. I auditioned, and I got the part, so for just a few weeks I became a member of the company and I met some professional actors"

Trevor Nunn, Director

"I knew that this was what I wanted to talk about on stage. There was no point being coy about it, or pretending that I wasn't gay. That was the substance of my whole act. If you took that away, there would be nothing left"

Julian Clary, Comedian

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