Arts, Media & Entertainment: Art Quotes

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"All my life as an artist I have asked myself: What pushes me continually to make sculpture? I have found the answer. Art is an action against death. It is a denial of death"

Jacques Lipchitz, Sculptor

"Our job is to make manifest the story, to be it. In a sense, the theatre is such a big star itself, bigger than any Shakespearean actor I could hire, that we should take the opportunity to fill it with voice and verse and movement, not interpretation"

Mark Rylance, Actor

"To me, I think, artists in general make a statement - and for the rest of their lives - every album, every book - are variations on a theme"

Mark Mothersbaugh, Musician

"As far as the style, I was fascinated by surrealism"

Mark Mothersbaugh, Musician

"I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art - and much more. It cannot be commercialized. Chess is much purer than art in its social position"

Marcel Duchamp, Artist

"In the animation world, people who understand pencils and paper usually aren't computer people, and the computer people usually aren't the artistic people, so they always stand on opposite sides of the line"

Don Bluth, Artist

"If you look at the game and everything, it's not quite like looking at an animated film, because that's total character. This, this is really movement, but it's got funny little things if you look for the humor. They're actually getting to the character"

Don Bluth, Artist

"With a painting, you don't have to go back and paint it again"

Joni Mitchell, Musician

"We all need to go to good theater; that is what I believe will save it"

Estelle Parsons, Actress

"In theater, the wellspring of the character comes from the doing of it, like a trial by fire, but in front of an audience"

Estelle Parsons, Actress

"I know people like spectacle, but I'm interested in moving people"

Estelle Parsons, Actress

"It just seems like the whole, overall animation world is trying to go where maybe animation doesn't belong"

Don Bluth, Artist

"I want to prove a point. That point is, actors are artists, not narcissists, necessarily"

William Hurt, Actor

"Theatre demands different muscles and different aspects of one's personality"

Victor Garber, Actor

"It's disgusting that a Broadway show can't try out anymore, that no matter where they are in the world, there is this massive dialogue going on between people damning or praising it"

Victor Garber, Actor

"I think from a very young age I always have this desire to perform"

Victor Garber, Actor

"I love doing the voice of Batman because of the quality of the animation. The music is particularly incredible. Another bonus is getting the opportunity to work with some very respected actors who do not usually do voice work"

Kevin Conroy, Actor

"We're actually doing something scripted that's totally, you know, we kind of know what's going on, however, we're having to live life and death as the art"

Josh Holloway, Actor

"If the work of art is to continue pursuing the vision of both being in and of the world, but nevertheless in some fashion being more than just one more object to the mounting clutter, this is the specific point, I think, where this must be assured"

Brian Ferneyhough, Composer

"I am certainly not arguing for the de facto autonomy of the individual work, even though there is much to be said for making the attempt to see it in that light as one facet of the reception process"

Brian Ferneyhough, Composer

"Divine fires do not blaze each day, but an artist functions in their afterglow, hoping for their recurrence"

Ned Rorem, Composer

"Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist"

Ned Rorem, Composer

"I started taking ballet lessons when I was three and a half, and I still take dance classes"

Oksana Baiul, Athlete

"I think acting can bring you closer to yourself and help you understand other people"

William Hurt, Actor

"To cause the face to appear in a mass of flame make use of the following: Mix together thoroughly petroleum, lard, mutton tallow and quick lime. Distill this over a charcoal fire, and the liquid which results can be burned on the face without harm"

Harry Houdini, Entertainer

"I want to die in the saddle. I love writing, producing, acting, directing"

Peter Fonda, Actor

"I think this is true for all artists. My senses are very important to me!"

Sharon Olds, Poet

"When you mean a show like this, you have to say to me a show exactly like this, the way it was done"

Werner Klemperer, Actor

"I'm not that obsessed with making representations of ugliness. Everything I've seen is beautiful"

Otto Dix, Artist

"In '75, the year both A Chorus Line and Chicago hit Broadway, my head spun around and I became the ultimate theater queen for life"

Michael Musto, Writer

"Don't put my name on it. These are simply documents I make"

Man Ray, Photographer

"Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity"

Lester Bangs, Critic

"Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult"

Laurence Olivier, Actor

"It was all to do with the change of producer as well as political reasons, I don't really comprehend"

Louise Jameson, Actress

"The individual, man as a man, man as a brain, if you like, interests me more than what he makes, because I've noticed that most artists only repeat themselves"

Marcel Duchamp, Artist

"I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music"

Joan Miro, Artist

"It's actually very freeing to be given permission as an artist to let that ride and to really let it ride, to actually experience it and bring it out of you. It's been uncomfortable and it's freeing at the same time"

Josh Holloway, Actor

"What interests me, and has always interested me, has been modernism"

Peter Gay, Historian

"I just kind of understood it, and I threw my love for others and love for life into the character, and was having a blast. I loved playing Dharma. I loved it!"

Jenna Elfman, Actress

"I've gotten to go wonderful places, meet interesting and intelligent people, and I started, of course, in the theatre and continue to work in the theatre, where there is some intelligence involved in it"

Jeffrey Jones, Actor

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