Arts, Media & Entertainment: Art Quotes

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"Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art"

Miguel Angel Ruiz, Author

"I never examined what I did in any great detail because I thought it would spoil things. I never read the scripts at all carefully, and never wanted to know what was going on, because I felt that, being a benevolent alien, that's the way it should be"

Tom Baker, Actor

"Every picture shows a spot with which the artist has fallen in love"

Alfred Sisley, Artist

"In a lot of formats, you can be really experimental and see what would happen"

Marguerite Moreau, Actress

"I like working in any medium. Who's making it? How much do I like the story? Does it contribute something?"

Marguerite Moreau, Actress

"I'm an actor and I've created a lasting and memorable character named Frasier, who is not me, but who most people think is. So when I have a chance to play something that's different, I embrace it because it's fun; also in this case, he's a memorable character"

Kelsey Grammer, Actor

"The new Pirates! builds on that legacy, delivering an even more powerful and fun experience to players... and is still unmatched in offering a blend of genres in one great game"

Sid Meier, Scientist

"When I see something I like, that's all that counts. What they use, how they get there, I never bother them"

Ang Lee, Director

"Modeling isn't boring"

Amber Valletta, Model

"You just don't see the same type of all-purpose entertainers nowadays"

Taye Diggs, Actor

"I'd like to do some more classical work if I do some more theatre"

Sarah Sutton, Actress

"Colors answer feeling in man; shapes answer thought; and motion answers will"

John Sterling, Author

"I'm enjoying it, but I still don't know why I'm hooked on acting"

Stephen Rea, Actor

"My experiences have been, from the very beginning, cultural and creative. And my business has been a way of exposing the culture, exposing the artists so that the world could hear and see them"

Russell Simmons, Businessman

"Art is a way to express yourself and through that you can escape a bad situation"

Russell Simmons, Businessman

"That test should not be about ratings. What should weigh is the knowledge that a public broadcaster delivers programmes that matter"

Jonathan Dimbleby, Writer

"Some artists shrink from self-awareness, fearing that it will destroy their unique gifts and even their desire to create. The truth of the matter is quite opposite!"

James Broughton, Director

"I actually build my dreams around the dancers I've got in my company"

Graeme Murphy, Dancer

"I love to be in the position of not knowing what I'm gonna do, but having rehearsed all of those, so when something happens with the others actors, I go with whatever that is, I'm getting"

Wayne Rogers, Actor

"In Europe, people in the arts are considered part of the intelligentsia; they are considered part of the elite"

Ron Silver, Actor

"Thank God for the theater"

Raul Julia, Actor

"The best work I can do is to take myself as much as I can out of it and get it as simple as I can"

Mandy Patinkin, Actor

"We were doing performance art as far back as 1965, just not calling it that"

Joseph Jarman, Musician

"I move very slowly. It's usually material first. I sit with the material for a long time"

Jim Hodges, Politician

"We ape, we mimic, we mock. We act"

Laurence Olivier, Actor

"I'm not really a fashion designer. I just love clothes. I've never been to design school. I can't sketch. I can't cut patterns and things. I can shorten things. I can make a dress out of a scarf"

Kate Moss, Model

"Sometimes string figures were used to illustrate stories, as in the case of an Eskimo example that depicts a man catching a salmon. Sometimes they had magic or religious significance"

Louis Leakey, Scientist

"The Yale group was doing the Harold. So by our senior year we were trying to do the Harold. Again, we had no idea what we were doing. We had one guy in the group who was pretty experimental; he would kind of push us to do weird things. It was really fun, a great experience"

Rachel Dratch, Comedian

"My approach is a very human one, as a fan"

Lisa Guerrero, Journalist

"I wish to lead a life free from care, and I see that I shall be unhappy if I cannot always work at my art"

Clara Schumann, Musician

"I think I would go further into fine arts, I think, if I were to continue"

Joni Mitchell, Musician

"Most artists think they're frauds anyway"

John Milius, Director

"I ran spotlight. Swept up. Did box office. Ran the lighting board. But acting was the most fun"

Tim Robbins, Actor

"I'm perplexed, though, by your application of the term 'negative' to my figural imagery"

Brian Ferneyhough, Composer

"The perfection in theater is that it's over the second it's done"

William Hurt, Actor

"David Cronenberg knows what we actors do as artists"

William Hurt, Actor

"Creating a character on or off the stage is an escape"

Roger Moore, Actor

"I think it's one of my favourite theatres ever, so quirky and wonderful and steeped in history. The space is wonderful and the acoustics are brilliant"

Louise Jameson, Actress

"I feel the need of attaining the maximum of intensity with the minimum of means. It is this which has led me to give my painting a character of even greater bareness"

Joan Miro, Artist

"For me, an object is something living. This cigarette or this box of matches contains a secret life much more intense than that of certain human beings"

Joan Miro, Artist

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