Arts, Media & Entertainment: Art Quotes

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"I think all art is about control - the encounter between control and the uncontrollable"

Richard Avedon, Photographer

Marvin Gaye, Musician

"After Land I wanted to continue exploring the theme, but I needed a new challenge, so turned to colour. I explored Bradford and produced a series of urban landscapes that I liked, but because Land had made such an impact on the general public, my colour work wasn't reviewed"

Fay Godwin, Photographer

"You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a matter of noticing things and organizing them. You just have to care about what's around you and have a concern with humanity and the human comedy"

Elliott Erwitt, Photographer

"A win by an unsound combination, however showy, fills me with artistic horror"

Wilhelm Steinitz, Celebrity

"You can't expect to take a definitive image in half an hour. It takes days, often years"

Fay Godwin, Photographer

"The viewer must bring their own view to a photograph"

Fay Godwin, Photographer

"There is one timeless way of building. It is a thousand years old, and the same today as it has ever been. The great traditional buildings of the past, the villages and tents and temples in which man feels at home, have always been made by people who were very close to the center of this way"

Christopher Alexander, Architect

"In creating the Harry Potter artwork, I try to bring a certain amount of realism and believability to the characters and setting, but still add an element of wonder and the unknown"

Mary Grandpre, Illustrator

"True art tries not to attract attention in order to be noticed"

Jose Bergamin, Writer

"Above all, I craved to seize the whole essence, in the confines of one single photograph, of some situation that was in the process of unrolling itself before my eyes"

Henri Cartier-Bresson, Photographer

"It's like a candy store for an illustrator; I connected with Harry pretty quickly and loved the way J.K. described everything; she's such a visually thinking person. You can't pass that up"

Mary Grandpre, Illustrator

"Trying to force creativity is never good"

Sarah McLachlan, Musician

"Visiting a museum is a matter of going from void to void"

Robert Smithson, Artist

"I've always wanted to be an animator. That's an ultimate art form, right there"

Jason Marsden, Actor

"I like the body. I like to design everything to do with the body"

Gianni Versace, Designer

"To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy"

Henri Cartier-Bresson, Photographer

"In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv"

Henri Cartier-Bresson, Photographer

"In my work, I have never had any use for anything that I have known in advance"

Eduardo Chillida, Sculptor

"Architecture is not an inspirational business; it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all"

Harry Seidler, Architect

"As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the greatest adornment of art"

Albrecht Durer, Artist

"I paint abstract expressions"

Billy Zane, Actor

"The artist is chosen by God to fulfill his commands and must never be overwhelmed by public opinion"

Albrecht Durer, Artist

"Good design doesn't date"

Harry Seidler, Architect

"On the other hand, the artist has much to do in the realm of color construction, which is so little explored and so obscure, and hardly dates back any farther than to the beginning of Impressionism"

Robert Delaunay, Artist

"The part an actor played on stage was once written on a separate roll of paper"

Talcott Parsons, Sociologist

"The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art"

John Lasseter, Director

"The task of the artist is to construct a new order of life"

El Lissitzky, Artist

"The important thing is to remember what most impressed you and to put it on canvas as fast as possible"

Pierre Bonnard, Artist

"An empty canvas is a living wonder... far lovelier than certain pictures"

Wassily Kandinsky, Artist

"No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business"

Mikhail Baryshnikov, Dancer

"That's the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture, the more impossible it becomes to finish it"

Alberto Giacometti, Sculptor

"What is called a sincere work is one that is endowed with enough strength to give reality to an illusion"

Max Jacob, Poet

"Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes"

Thomas W. Higginson, Clergyman

"A great artist is always before his time or behind it"

George Edward Moore, Philosopher

"Layer by layer art strips life bare"

Robert Musil, Writer

"What's most important in animation is the emotions and the ideas being portrayed. I'm a great believer of energy and emotion"

Ralph Bakshi, Director

"Everything starts from a dot"

Wassily Kandinsky, Artist

"Every ballet, whether or not successful artistically or with the public, has given me something important"

Mikhail Baryshnikov, Dancer

"Artistically, I am still a child with a whole life ahead of me to discover and create. I want something, but I won't know what it is until I succeed in doing it"

Alberto Giacometti, Sculptor

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