Arts, Media & Entertainment: Art Quotes

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"Watching everyone root through their psyche, it just delights me. Especially R. Crumb's stuff"

Alison Bechdel, Cartoonist

"Well, I'm always working on my comic strip and trying to, you know, keep cranking that out"

Alison Bechdel, Cartoonist

"Autobiographical comics, I love them. I love them"

Alison Bechdel, Cartoonist

"I like television. I still believe that television is the most powerful form of communication on Earth - I just hate what is being done with it"

Alton Brown, Entertainer

"The job at Brooklyn is interesting because Brooklyn reflects what happened to university art departments everywhere. It might be the worst department now, and yet at one point it was the best in the country"

Ad Reinhardt, Artist

"British fashion is self confident and fearless. It refuses to bow to commerce, thus generating a constant flow of new ideas whilst drawing in British heritage"

Alexander McQueen, Designer

"Color is an intense experience on its own"

Jim Hodges, Politician

"Design works if it's authentic, inspired, and has a clear point of view. It can't be a collection of input"

Ron Johnson, Politician

"When I make art, I think about its ability to connect with others, to bring them into the process"

Jim Hodges, Politician

"The real artist has no idea that he is sacrificing himself for art. He does what he does for one reason and one reason only-he can't help doing it"

Alma Gluck, Musician

"Any art communicates what you're in the mood to receive"

Larry Rivers, Musician

"Competitions are for horses, not artists"

Bela Bartok, Composer

"I like to paint nudes mostly"

Cleo Moore, Actress

"And I usually use myself as a model, posing in front of a mirror as I dab the strokes on the canvas"

Cleo Moore, Actress

"Sometimes I just crave to play in Shakespeare again, and I know and love playing Orlando so much"

Basil Rathbone, Actor

"Part of the work is determining through what instrument you are playing. Actors are physical, Olympian storytellers and we should be able to create entire landscapes with nothing"

Ajay Naidu, Actor

"When you have a creative mind, it doesn't stop going"

Alison Moyet, Musician

"I'm always up for going back to the stage"

Taye Diggs, Actor

"All the gestures of children are graceful; the reign of distortion and unnatural attitudes commences with the introduction of the dancing master"

Joshua Reynolds, Artist

"My best work is often almost unconscious and occurs ahead of my ability to understand it"

Sam Abell, Photographer

"Know what the old masters did. Know how they composed their pictures, but do not fall into the conventions they established. These conventions were right for them, and they are wonderful. They made their language. You make yours. All the past can help you"

Robert Henri, Artist

"If I had parallel lives to pursue, I would also want one as a painter"

Norman Spinrad, Author

"You know, face painting in non-Western cultures is a sign of collectivism, is a sign of one representing the community, it's not unique at all"

Joseph Jarman, Musician

"It's as if I were collaborating with myself, revealing my relationship to the material. My hand would make the drawing. Then my mouth would transmit it"

Jim Hodges, Politician

"The animation of the canvas is one of the hardest problems of painting"

Alfred Sisley, Artist

"I believe that dance communicates man's deepest, highest and most truly spiritual thoughts and emotions far better than words, spoken or written"

Ted Shawn, Dancer

"I think the diva is kind of a cliche. My definition of a diva is somebody whose talent does not match what they're trying to play, so all this temperament comes out"

Glenn Close, Actress

"If you're trying to please everyone, then you're not going to make anything that is honestly yours, I don't think, in the long run"

Viggo Mortensen, Actor

"I was exposed to the arts, but there was no one in my family who was an artist"

Marisa Tomei, Actress

"I like working closely with artists. I think that's very important in fantasy and science fiction - the visual aspect of the worlds and the characters"

Margaret Weis, Writer

"I feel constricted if I become too much aware of the act of making. Liberty is lost and instead of an instinctual lyrical expression the whole thing becomes arid"

William Scott, Writer

"The art and culture that is New York, communications, finance, all these things help make up New York. The rest of the country should be happy that we are what we are"

David Dinkins, Politician

"Theatre has no national identity. It is something for the world, whether it is Irish, English, or French"

Cyril Cusack, Actor

"I did a play, I think my first six months on the show, called Bullpen. Then I got involved with Theater Forty and did this play called Plastic, which is about two male models coming to a casting call"

Austin Peck, Actor

"I jump at any chance to go back into theater"

Taye Diggs, Actor

"Actors should be overheard, not listened to, and the audience is 50 percent of the performance"

Shirley Booth, Actress

"I went to ballet school for nine years, and there was an agent for the whole school who happened to be there visiting one of the performances. She suggested an audition"

Sarah Sutton, Actress

"Blood and death. That moves me"

Ikue Mori, Musician

"Anything that loosens you up and makes you freer is good, because that's what acting and performing is all about - being free. It gives you a better connection to the audience"

Brett Somers, Actress

"The universe is dynamic. When we are creative, we are the most alive and in touch with it"

Brad Dourif, Actor

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