Arts, Media & Entertainment: Art Quotes

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"Our senses are indeed our doors and windows on this world, in a very real sense, the key to the unlocking of meaning and the wellspring of creativity"

Jean Houston, Author

"I was a student at Harvard, and that's where I learned about so-called avant-garde music. Jackson Pollock, abstract expressionism and painting were well known at this time"

Henry Flynt, Artist

"Consulting the rules of composition before taking a photograph is like consulting the laws of gravity before going for a walk"

Edward Weston, Photographer

"Art is a sense of magic"

Stan Brakhage, Director

"My work is so unorthodox that from one panel to the next, the drawings are completely different... totally opposed to the way of working in something like animation, where every drawing has to look like the one before"

Sergio Aragones, Cartoonist

"You want the audience to be uncomfortable"

Richard Thompson, Musician

"There arose a belief in style - and in banality. Banality encompassed politics, too, because it was a common belief that politics were not worthy of art"

Douglas Sirk, Director

"My language is what I use, and if I lost that, I wouldn't be able to say anything"

Howard Hodgkin, Artist

"I hate painting"

Howard Hodgkin, Artist

"I think there is an element of nihilism about, but I don't think most artists feel their work is meaningless"

Leonard Baskin, Artist

"The payoffs in showbiz seemed as random as a slot machine"

Kathie Lee Gifford, Entertainer

"Certainly, in cartooning I'm given huge free rein at the moment"

Jonathan Shapiro, Cartoonist

"Once I make a picture, I never look at it again"

George Sidney, Director

"A woman is subject matter enough"

Claude Chabrol, Director

"Part of the joy of looking at art is getting in sync in some ways with the decision-making process that the artist used and the record that's embedded in the work"

Chuck Close, Artist

"I did some pastels and I did other pieces in which there was just basically one color per square, and then they would get bigger and I could get 2 or 3 colors into the square, and ultimately I just started making oil paintings"

Chuck Close, Artist

"I always thought that one of the reasons why a painter likes especially to have other painters look at his or her work is the shared experience of having pushed paint around"

Chuck Close, Artist

"I'm using my art to comment on what I see. You don't have to agree with it"

John Mellencamp, Musician

"Most people think an artist tries to be original, but originality is the last thing that develops in the artist"

Lukas Foss, Composer

"People who are interested in the arts and theater are such a minority"

Carol Kane, Actress

"I can tell you where my Tonys are. They're in a beautiful place in my living room, in a glass cabinet"

Chita Rivera, Actress

"Work at the same time on sky, water, branches, ground, keeping everything going on an equal basis... Don't be afraid of putting on colour... Paint generously and unhesitatingly, for it is best not to lose the first impression"

Camille Pissarro, Artist

"The mystical poetry of William Blake's artwork also forms the basis for the album cover"

Bruce Dickinson, Musician

"Photography suits the temper of this age - of active bodies and minds. It is a perfect medium for one whose mind is teeming with ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who would be slowed down by painting or sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts decisively, accurately"

Edward Weston, Photographer

"I don't think any of us could have possibly anticipated how successful Mad Men has been. When we were working on the pilot, we loved it. We thought it was special. We hoped and prayed it'd be a success. But we didn't count on it"

Elizabeth Moss, Actress

"We're entertainers, while people want us to be gods"

Donnie Wahlberg, Actor

"When I finish a painting, it usually looks as surprising to me as to anyone else"

Howard Hodgkin, Artist

"I'm very envious of the few artists who are any good and still do portraits"

Howard Hodgkin, Artist

"I think that words are often extraneous to what I do"

Howard Hodgkin, Artist

"I am happy for people to talk about my pictures, but I wish devoutly that I was not expected to talk about them myself"

Howard Hodgkin, Artist

"If I had money, I would like to get an old building, have music performances, do lithographs, have shows of paintings, and do those things that I'm interested in doing"

Bill Dixon, Musician

"They weren't impatient for the boys to turn into cartoons again. They awarded sympathy, gave compassion. Because deep down they had found parts of themselves in the characters. You said it, George"

Audrey Meadows, Actress

"And I found that when I built my own place and just shut the door, the creativity was endless"

Billy Sherwood, Musician

"We had more viewers on the broadcast network than we did on the cable channel"

Brit Hume, Journalist

"I've spent my life pursing excellence as an artist, which is what I always wanted to do anyhow"

Claire Bloom, Actress

"I was very much in my room with my marionette stage, you know, creating these incredibly boring things that I felt were so fascinating, and forcing my relatives to come, and charging money for them to see my little productions"

Bob Balaban, Actor

"My job as an actress is to make things work and come up with reasons of my own and not just fill in the blanks for anybody else, you know what I mean?"

Amy Adams, Actress

"Two packed houses. I guess the theater sat 2,700 people every night, so it was an amazing experience"

Blair Underwood, Actor

"The hope is they would like to bring it to Broadway next year, so we'll see, that's to come in the end of the finance year, and everybody else, and also real estate, and what theaters are available at the time, but I would like to come back with it"

Blair Underwood, Actor

"I like shows or films or books that have messages but don't beat people over the head with them"

Anna Paquin, Actress

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