Arts, Media & Entertainment: Art Quotes

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"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

"One of the pleasures of being an actor is quite simply taking a walk in someone else's shoes. And when I look at the roles I've played, I'm kind of amazed at all the wonderful adventures I've had and the different things I've learned"

Willem Dafoe, Actor

"I think that's so strange, because they do know that we're all actors and we perform things that have not necessarily anything to do with us personally"

Werner Klemperer, Actor

"To me, getting notes, honing the part, and refining the role is the real fun of the play"

Swoosie Kurtz, Actress

"At the point where I'm trying to force something and it's not happening, and I'm getting frustrated with, say, writing a poem, I can go and pick up the brushes and start painting. At the point where the painting seems to not be going anywhere, I go and pick up the guitar"

Joni Mitchell, Musician

"I love the description of Gothic churches before the printed word, that they were the bibles of the poor"

John McGahern, Writer

"If the world would only build temples to Machinery in the abstract, then everything would be perfect. The painter and sculptor would have plenty to do, and could, in complete peace and suitably honored, pursue their trade without further trouble"

Wyndham Lewis, Author

"I knew there was something special about the theater for me, something beyond the regular reality, something that I could get into and transcend and become something other than myself"

Raul Julia, Actor

"You can only paint through your experience and sub-consciousness"

Barbara Smith, Activist

"Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former"

William Shenstone, Poet

"I realized it wasn't necessary to work in the traditional methods of carving and casting"

Martin Puryear, Sculptor

"Although idea and form are ultimately paramount in my work, so too are chance, accident, and rawness"

Martin Puryear, Sculptor

"A theater is being given over to market forces, which means that a whole generation that should be able to do theater as well as see it is being completely deprived"

Vanessa Redgrave, Actress

"Acting is usually regarded as a wholly narcissistic pursuit, but there really is a hunger in me to unravel the human condition"

Jason Isaacs, Actor

"I could release myself into acting in a way that I was not released socially"

Jason Isaacs, Actor

"There is only one absinthe drinker, and that's the man who painted this idiotic picture"

Thomas Couture, Artist

"Surely we have always acted; it is an instinct inherent in all of us. Some of us are better at it than others, but we all do it"

Laurence Olivier, Actor

"I guess I didn't enjoy drawing very much. It was like homework"

Robert Crumb, Artist

"I have a dress-up chest at home. I love to create this fantasy kind of thing"

Kate Moss, Model

"I like surfers. Their imagery, it's great"

Ray Davies, Musician

"I still collect comics. I still have a great love and respect for the genre"

Thomas Jane, Actor

"I became intrigued with colour theory. The absurd pronouncements of the Colour Institute, a group that decides what colours are hot each year or season, amused me"

John Barton, Poet

"Especially in the realm of bringing an opportunity to do something creative to people, as I said, who wouldn't ordinarily have that opportunity. I think that's very important"

Phil Lesh, Musician

"There is tragic evidence to show that the paintings at the French prehistoric art sites are deteriorating"

Louis Leakey, Scientist

"Dance is definitely what I love doing much more than anything else"

Keri Russell, Actress

"No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse in the spectator some vestige of erotic feeling, even if it be only the faintest shadow - and if it does not do so it is bad art and false morals"

Kenneth Clark, Author

"And as a character, what I found very inspiring about playing Dharma, especially at that time, is that the women on television were more neurotic than they were free. And I thought, this is a rare bird and this is unique on television and I think it's really refreshing"

Jenna Elfman, Actress

"I've done Hay Fever, and this one was called Another Time by Ronald Harwood"

Jeffrey Jones, Actor

"It is still an open question, however, as to what extent exposure really injures a performer"

Harry Houdini, Entertainer

"Actors are able to trick themselves into treating anything as if it's fantastic. It's a kind of madness, really"

Tom Baker, Actor

"Everybody thinks they know what art should be. But very few of them have the sense that is necessary to experience painting, that is the sense of sight, that sees colors and forms as living reality in the picture"

Otto Dix, Artist

"I was an art student at the time, like thousands of others"

Ray Davies, Musician

"You know, if one paints someone's portrait, one should not know him, if possible"

Otto Dix, Artist

"Moments are incredible, but in my fantasy mind I see a Globe company which is renowned throughout the world for what it does with pure storytelling. So that people come and say: It's not just the building, it's the only place you can hear this kind of work"

Mark Rylance, Actor

"Burleigh, absolutely; and a lot about Elizabeth. I mean, I found when I play Henry V a lot of connections with the hidden history of the connection between Francis Bacon and Elizabeth"

Mark Rylance, Actor

"Cubism is like standing at a certain point on a mountain and looking around. If you go higher, things will look different; if you go lower, again they will look different. It is a point of view"

Jacques Lipchitz, Sculptor

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