Arts, Media & Entertainment: Art Quotes

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"I am tapping into a place in you that is unexplored and very dangerous, but I think essential to the creative life of an artist"

Brandon Boyd, Musician

"The value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labor employed in it, or the mental pleasure in producing it"

Joshua Reynolds, Artist

"One newspaper even published one of my nude paintings - the one of me naked from the waste up"

Cleo Moore, Actress

"One of my favorite stories was Black Orchid, because it was so different from all the others. I especially enjoyed dancing the Charleston. I have always been keen on dancing"

Sarah Sutton, Actress

"Any work of architecture that has with it some discussion, some polemic, I think is good. It shows that people are interested, people are involved"

Richard Meier, Architect

"Flames from the lips may be produced by holding in the mouth a sponge saturated with the purest gasoline"

Harry Houdini, Entertainer

"So I find the fascination, the love, the incredible skill and everything to do with acting, writing plays, and doing them, just darling. Lovely. I love actors"

Patrick Macnee, Actor

"You really can't bring about anything new with art"

Martin Kippenberger, Artist

"What I'm working on is for people to be able to say that Kippenberger had this really good mood"

Martin Kippenberger, Artist

"My style is where you see the individual and where a personality is communicated through actions, decisions, single objects and facts, where the whole draws together to form a history"

Martin Kippenberger, Artist

"What I wish to show when I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart"

Raoul Dufy, Artist

"I don't follow any system. All the laws you can lay down are only so many props to be cast aside when the hour of creation arrives"

Raoul Dufy, Artist

"When drawings of the main buildings I have designed in the last five years are juxtaposed, the fact that they all involve the pursuit of certain configurations is obvious to anyone"

Yoshio Taniguchi, Architect

"Unless you are a born connoisseur of art, you will not be able to judge by yourself why certain art is superior to other art"

David Elliott, Celebrity

"You have to remember we're just performers, that we seldom have any kind of grasp on real life"

Tom Kenny, Actor

"I sometimes make pictures which are not up to my standard, but then it can only be said of a mediocrity that all his work is up to his standard"

Ernst Lubitsch, Director

"The immature artist imitates. Mature artists steal"

Lionel Trilling, Critic

"It's the emotional trigger points that are important to me because I know if I could believe in the characters and try and imagine how they felt then I'd be able to do something quite honest"

Graeme Murphy, Dancer

"It's not a company of exponents of my style"

Graeme Murphy, Dancer

"There's something about the Houdini act that is not always made clear - about the escape act in general"

James Randi, Entertainer

"The greatest man is he who forms the taste of a nation; the next greatest is he who corrupts it"

Joshua Reynolds, Artist

"I like all those painters who loved and had a strong feeling for nature"

Alfred Sisley, Artist

"My education was doing good plays and also stinkers. When you do a stinker, you learn how to act. I like having to audition. It's nice to do rehearsals. But it's with an audience that you get to love it!"

Jeffrey Tambor, Actor

"Entertainment is in art like color in pictures"

Martin Kippenberger, Artist

"Artistic development is a thing of the past, sadly"

David Coverdale, Musician

"I deplore the loss of arts on BBC One and Two"

Jonathan Dimbleby, Writer

"It was the highlight of my life being in the Mae West show, because I saw and did things I never had before"

Joe Gold, Businessman

"I think it requires a bit of honesty, Swan Lake"

Graeme Murphy, Dancer

"The only thing I was trying to portray was serenity. Also, innocence, vulnerability and elegance"

Sylvia Kristel, Actress

"We want people to experience art and think about it. The art reflects our time, it is about our culture"

David Elliott, Celebrity

"Skating was the vessel into which I could pour my heart and soul"

Peggy Fleming, Athlete

"You've got to perform in a role hundreds of times. In keeping it fresh, one can become a large, madly humming, demented refrigerator"

Ralph Richardson, Actor

"I feel that the year ahead for me will be full of two of my favorite things: dance and acting"

William Kempe, Actor

"Politics itself is so unsexy, isn't it? But when the politics in creative works are really explored - not used as a vehicle - the results can be really interesting"

Marisa Tomei, Actress

"On occasion I have drawn as a release from painting. The economy in using paper, pencil, charcoal and crayon can help towards a greater gamble and higher rewards. I also find that drawing can generate ideas more rapidly than painting"

William Scott, Writer

"I no longer worry whether a painting is about something or not. I am only concerned with the expectation, from a flat surface, of an illusion"

William Scott, Writer

"Art doesn't feed me or fill the void when I am not working. If I haven't worked for six months, I can't paint"

Rod Taylor, Actor

"I moved further and further away from mass entertainment. The sexual element became increasingly sinister and bizarre. Don't blame me! The bastards drove me to it! They all backed off after that!"

Robert Crumb, Artist

"Everything that is strong in me has gone into my art work"

Robert Crumb, Artist

"You do your work as a photographer and everything becomes past. Words are more like thoughts; the photographer's picture is always surrounded by a kind of romantic glamor - no matter what you do, and how you twist it"

Robert Frank, Photographer

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