Arts, Media & Entertainment: Art Quotes

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"I think the same way about theatre, you go out there and you are creating a world for a moment that can actually have a real impact on people, present some kind of story that gives you something to think about when you walk away, feeling enriched - if it works out well"

Jeffrey Jones, Actor

"I'm very interested to see how this new painting will go - I know I want it big and stark, and as I said, I follow the muse, and that's when it always works perfectly for me"

Jackie DeShannon, Musician

"I should be soaring away with my head tilted slightly toward the gods, feeding on the caviar of Shakespeare. An actor must act"

Laurence Olivier, Actor

"I don't know what is better than the work that is given to the actor-to teach the human heart the knowledge of itself"

Laurence Olivier, Actor

"I believe that in a great city, or even in a small city or a village, a great theater is the outward and visible sign of an inward and probable culture"

Laurence Olivier, Actor

"I never wanted to dilute my private passion for the art by airing and arguing it in public"

James Broughton, Director

"Dance, vaudeville, drama, movies - as a child I loved everything that went on in a theater"

James Broughton, Director

"Mass consumption, advertising, and mass art are a corporate Frankenstein; while they reinforce the system, they also undermine it"

Ellen Willis, Writer

"No one can be a painter unless he cares for painting above all else"

Edouard Manet, Artist

"In things to be seen at once, much variety makes confusion, another vice of beauty. In things that are not seen at once, and have no respect one to another, great variety is commendable, provided this variety transgress not the rules of optics and geometry"

Christopher Wren, Architect

"At this point, the theater America is in such a precarious place"

Estelle Parsons, Actress

"I don't believe in art. I believe in artists"

Marcel Duchamp, Artist

"There's about 260 rooms in the new castle which you go through, but it's all about the game play"

Don Bluth, Artist

"My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art"

Clara Schumann, Musician

"Is an artist much more than a beggar?"

Clara Schumann, Musician

"I love the creating part of taking on a character. It is fun to be another person and create what it would be like to be that person"

Jason Dohring, Actor

"Here we are in the 70's, when everything really is horrible, and it really stinks. The mass media, everything on television, everything, everywhere is just rotten. You know it's just really boring, and really evil, ugly, and worse"

Lester Bangs, Critic

"The office of drama is to exercise, possibly to exhaust, human emotions. The purpose of comedy is to tickle those emotions into an expression of light relief; of tragedy, to wound them and bring the relief of tears. Disgust and terror are the other points of the compass"

Laurence Olivier, Actor

"The actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand"

Laurence Olivier, Actor

"Lead the audience by the nose to the thought"

Laurence Olivier, Actor

"Once you've established where you are, you go to the character and elaborate on expressions and action"

Sergio Aragones, Cartoonist

"Generally, what I produce is new. Of course, they are often variations on the same subject"

Sergio Aragones, Cartoonist

"There would seem to be a limit, even for an art preoccupied with boundaries and transgressions, beyond which a work reaches its breaking point and becomes an actual failure, a mere experimentation"

Brian Ferneyhough, Composer

"My own position is, that it is largely up to the work itself to suggest the nature of these referential points without dimensions in and through the processes by which the distance between them is maintained"

Brian Ferneyhough, Composer

"For every issue, I send four pages of finished marginals and they select the ones they need"

Sergio Aragones, Cartoonist

"I just feel passionately about a few things and particularly about helping artists get off the ground"

Jane Badler, Actress

"The rehearsal is where it all happens for an actor"

Wayne Rogers, Actor

"I remember when we were doing the first Dragon's Lair, I got really involved with coming up with all the little rooms, and what was the danger in the room, and going into it with bats and spiders and snakes"

Don Bluth, Artist

"The fact that biological, or "natural" rules might help in the creation of a computer generated work of art is interesting, but even a wonderful work of art made in this fashion isn't the same as a person, with all his or her experiences and emotions involved, making art"

Steven Levy, Journalist

"I don't see 'lines of force' as being destructive, except to the extent that they are exclusively traceable through observance of the path of distorted material left in their wake"

Brian Ferneyhough, Composer

"I think the work that they do and the style of 3D graphics is absolutely fabulous and I think it's a great brush to use for some stories. And there are other brushes that I think are exclusive to a different kind of story"

Don Bluth, Artist

"I was never interested in making cool, distilled, pure objects"

Martin Puryear, Sculptor

"You can only do so much theatre"

Victor Garber, Actor

"The stage is where I feel most comfortable, and I miss it all the time"

Victor Garber, Actor

"I believe that acting in any medium is the same thing, it's discovering the truth in where you are"

Victor Garber, Actor

"As a necessary prerequisite to the creation of new forms of expression, one might, I suppose, argue that current sensibilities respond uniquely to the notion of exhaustion as exhaustion, although that does de facto seem rather limiting"

Brian Ferneyhough, Composer

"I like creating images"

Kate Moss, Model

"It's all about creation and surprise. It just needs to be appreciated and watered like flowers. You have to water flowers. These peaks will come again!"

Sonny Rollins, Musician

"Theatre is how I first encountered art on any level"

Patrick Marber, Writer

"I used to go with my parents and loved it, I was in school plays, and I started reading plays before I started reading novels. I'll defend it to the hilt. When theatre is good it is fabulous"

Patrick Marber, Writer

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