Arts, Media & Entertainment: Art Quotes

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"A mad, keen photographer needs to get out into the world and work and make mistakes"

Sam Abell, Photographer

"But some actors I have met possess an intelligence that I can only dream of. It's about character, it's about behavior. They understand things about people that I simply don't see"

Ron Silver, Actor

"I am interested in art as a means of living a life; not as a means of making a living"

Robert Henri, Artist

"We'd love to do Pirates for the 21st century. People have also asked about Colonization, and a few others"

Sid Meier, Scientist

"I love Age of Empires and I play RTS games all the time, I respect what they've accomplished"

Sid Meier, Scientist

"We are ready to say that we rule the entire Elgin enterprise as irrelevant to the present"

Melina Mercouri, Actress

"There are situations which cannot honorably be met by art"

George Oppen, Poet

"Painting self-portraits without clothes on has also given me some publicity"

Cleo Moore, Actress

"I like the theatre because you paint with broad strokes. To me the theatre is stretching its definition really far"

Ajay Naidu, Actor

"We did a different show every night. We'd open a show, and then two weeks later we'd open the next show. And two weeks later we'd open the third show until we had all eight running. And it was just one of the richest experiences I'd ever had in my theatrical life"

Mandy Patinkin, Actor

"Some of the reviewers wanted less. Some wanted lots more. Some wanted lots more of something else. But these strips are exactly what they are"

Art Spiegelman, Artist

"There are a lot of people who can now see me as an artist for the first time"

Alison Moyet, Musician

"Nudes are the greatest to paint. Everything you can find in a landscape or a still life or anything else is there: darkness and light, character dimension, texture. I painted heads too, of course"

John Hurt, Actor

"It would make me feel that creative art has a chance in this crazy world that we all live in"

Jimmy Carl Black, Musician

"I would like to direct. What goes on behind stage is very interesting!"

Sarah Sutton, Actress

"There is a broad range of reaction to the work, as there is a broad range of work I make"

Jim Hodges, Politician

"I think young people have a wonderful reaction to color because it's not screwed up by too many references"

Jim Hodges, Politician

"I think that some works are more accessible than others"

Jim Hodges, Politician

"However, some of my work is very subtle, and one should expect very subtle reactions to it"

Jim Hodges, Politician

"Television has some lovely aspects to it - and some ghastly aspects - but the theater itself was a wonderful invention"

Patrick Macnee, Actor

"I've never been in a bad play. There might have been bad productions, and I might have been bad in them, but I've never been in a play that wasn't interesting or worthwhile doing on some level"

Stephen Rea, Actor

"I think great art is always ambiguous and can't be pinned down"

Stephen Rea, Actor

"Art allows people a way to dream their way out of their struggle"

Russell Simmons, Businessman

"The show is like an Edwardian play - emotional life gets stepped on for the sake of accepted manners, and that's terrific for actors to play in"

Jason Alexander, Actor

"Well, I've been a fan of videogames all my life"

Michael Strahan, Athlete

"I don't want to dress up a picture with just my face"

Grace Kelly, Actress

"Acting, to me, is about the incredible adventure of examining the landscape of human heart and soul. That's basically what we do"

Glenn Close, Actress

"You can't smear acrylics, you know, it dries too fast"

Howard Finster, Artist

"It would have to be connected with performance art somehow, either in the front of the house or the back. I was myopic about this from fourth grade on"

James Marsters, Actor

"No one was creating and I always wanted to be created on"

Graeme Murphy, Dancer

"I wanted to give people - which is fairly bizarre considering my whole life is contemporary dance, really - I wanted to give people a really fulfilling sense that they had seen a white classical ballet - in a very pure form"

Graeme Murphy, Dancer

"We may not like our times or many aspects of the time we live in, but that is not the fault of art as such"

David Elliott, Celebrity

"Style is something that's extremely important, but it must grow naturally out of who and what you are and what the material calls for. It cannot be superimposed"

William Friedkin, Director

"I'm usually put off by performers when they get political"

Tracey Ullman, Comedian

"The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Compromise is its second name"

Enid Bagnold, Author

"I loved the atmosphere of the dance studios - the wooden floors, the big mirrors, everyone dressed in pink or black tights, the musicians accompanying us - and the feeling of ritual the classes had"

Suzanne Vega, Musician

"Acting is way of making yourself exist"

Stephen Rea, Actor

"Realizing this, I knew that the actual space of a room could be broken down and played with by planting illusions of real light (electric light) at crucial junctures in the room's composition"

Dan Flavin, Sculptor

"My icons do not raise up the blessed Savior in elaborate cathedrals. They are constructed concentrations celebrating barren rooms. They bring a limited light"

Dan Flavin, Sculptor

"A piece of wall can be visually disintegrated from the whole into a separate triangle by plunging a diagonal of light from edge to edge on the wall; that is, side to floor, for instance"

Dan Flavin, Sculptor

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