Arts, Media & Entertainment: Art Quotes

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"To maintain one's individuality, integrity, and true personality in the theatre is a big task"

Cyril Cusack, Actor

"So begins a question which has of late become more and more urgent: what is the relation of aesthetics to politics?"

Mark Poster, Writer

"No one blames themselves if they don't understand a cartoon, as they might with a painting or "real" art; they simply think it's a bad cartoon"

Chris Ware, Artist

"Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away"

Robert Henri, Artist

"It is always the instantaneous reaction to oneself that produces a photograph"

Robert Frank, Photographer

"I always say that I don't want to be sentimental, that the photographs shouldn't be sentimental, and yet, I am conscious of my sentimentality"

Robert Frank, Photographer

"Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected"

Robert Frank, Photographer

"The BBC produces wonderful programmes; it also produces a load of old rubbish"

Jonathan Dimbleby, Writer

"I'm not certain that the BBC can claim to be making a wide enough range of distinctive programmes to make the case convincingly"

Jonathan Dimbleby, Writer

"A discerning eye needs only a hint, and understatement leaves the imagination free to build its own elaborations"

Russell Page

"A certain death of an artist is overconfidence"

Robin Trower, Musician

"It's difficult being a child actor. I don't think everything beautiful has to be exploited. Some things can be beautiful and left beautiful"

Rick Schroder, Actor

"Postmodernism surely requires an even greater grasp of symbolism, as it's increasingly an art of gesture alone"

Andrew Eldritch, Musician

"So what it boils down to, in my humble opinion, is that we need to support the arts in schools, and at every other level in the education of children"

Phil Lesh, Musician

"I never wanted to do political satire because it seems too surface to me"

Tracey Ullman, Comedian

"Buildings designed exclusively on scientific principles will depress their occupants and constrain their creativity"

Robert Evans, Director

"The painter who feels obligated to depict his subjects as uniformly beautiful or handsome and without flaws will fall short of making art"

Joyce Maynard, Writer

"What I am looking for... is an immobile movement, something which would be the equivalent of what is called the eloquence of silence, or what St. John of the Cross, I think it was, described with the term 'mute music'"

Joan Miro, Artist

"Throughout the time in which I am working on a canvas I can feel how I am beginning to love it, with that love which is born of slow comprehension"

Joan Miro, Artist

"The works must be conceived with fire in the soul, but executed with clinical coolness"

Joan Miro, Artist

"My latest works are these things with light bulbs"

Jim Hodges, Politician

"As a viewer, my own work elicits strong emotional reaction from me"

Jim Hodges, Politician

"I kind of have a dilettantish spirit about me"

Ron Silver, Actor

"I went to art school, I think it helped me a great deal because it taught me who I am"

Jackie DeShannon, Musician

"My photographs are not planned or composed in advance, and I do not anticipate that the onlooker will share my viewpoint. However, I feel that if my photograph leaves an image on his mind, something has been accomplished"

Robert Frank, Photographer

"Anyone who has that weird volition to become an actor probably has a weird volition to do lots of other creative things - to write, to play music, to paint, to cook"

Minnie Driver, Actress

"But, when I had this feeling and started painting sacred art, as I had this feeling to do, then it come to me: my problem is I'll get a lot of criticism and another problem is my work's not good enough to sell"

Howard Finster, Artist

"A painting means as much to you as a string of pearls to an ape"

Paul Scofield, Actor

"So we gravitated to shows and issues and causes that made people care"

Norman Lear, Producer

"All art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too; the dreams and visions of my time. Painting is the effort to produce order; order in yourself. There is much chaos in me, much chaos in our time"

Otto Dix, Artist

"What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all have"

Lionel Trilling, Critic

"I respect the game that goes on of putting this against that, but I don't respect, nor do I enjoy, an awful lot of the actual programs that go on the air"

Roone Arledge, Journalist

"When I started working with mirrors, it seemed to be the perfect material to stand in for that waiting"

Jim Hodges, Politician

"I was trying to write an autobiography using prints and patterns that reference emotional, psychological, and personal development in my work, as a person growing up, figuring out who I was. I used fabrics to stand in for occurrences"

Jim Hodges, Politician

"I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste"

Marcel Duchamp, Artist

"With my ministry of light, part of what I do is work on the California Alliance for Arts Education"

Sally Kirkland, Actress

"To establish yourself as a leading man, you're shooting for the smallest point on the target, and you get a lot of judgment thrown at you. It takes a lot for them to get past everything and just watch your art and what you're doing"

Josh Holloway, Actor

"I will try to make a doll of Oksana with a little dog"

Oksana Baiul, Athlete

"I think any actor would agree that you can't replace theater. It's immediate. You have the energy of the crowd and every single night it's different"

Austin Peck, Actor

"Acting has been very useful to me"

Jane Asher, Actress

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