Arts, Media & Entertainment: Art Quotes

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"I know it sounds hokey, but I think, ultimately, on television you can't hide who you are"

Robert Urich, Actor

"To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society"

Man Ray, Photographer

"I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive"

Man Ray, Photographer

"I think good art happens on that edge between comfortable and in a lot of pain, you know what I mean?"

Liz Phair, Musician

"Art means to dare - and to have been right"

Ned Rorem, Composer

"So it's really nice after about a year and a half to get back on stage and flex those old muscles"

Michael C. Hall, Actor

"Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within"

Edith Hamilton, Writer

"An original is a creation motivated by desire. Any reproduction of an originals, motivated be necessity. It is marvelous that we are the only species that creates gratuitous forms. To create is divine, to reproduce is human!"

Man Ray, Photographer

"Well, I'd say that the beginning of this thing came through with Art of This Century, Peggy Guggenheim's, where she opened this gallery and began showing some things that caused a little talk, amongst a lot of other things"

Lee Krasner, Artist

"I knew de Kooning and I went to his studio so I knew about de Kooning's work. But only a little handful knew about it, you know. Maybe there were ten people that knew about it"

Lee Krasner, Artist

"At that point it certainly would be called abstract. That is to say, you had a model, and there'd be one or two or three people there drawing the model, but otherwise you had abstractions all around the room, even though the model was in front of you"

Lee Krasner, Artist

"Artists can color the sky red because they know it's blue. Those of us who aren't artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we're stupid"

Jules Feiffer, Cartoonist

"I believe in things that move people, if the audience isn't deeply caught up and moved to either laughter or tears, then I don't think it is theater"

Estelle Parsons, Actress

"For anyone with half a brain, they can see that this play is about the human condition"

Estelle Parsons, Actress

"But today I felt different, today I forgot how long it takes to get into the skin of a character and I remembered it, because today I actually got into that skin and it felt so different"

Estelle Parsons, Actress

"Oh, you ask me, what is the greatest torture of a person who does portraits for a living? I could fill several volumes with nice, nasty stories. I don't know?"

Imogen Cunningham, Photographer

"Basically, I viewed any work of art as an imposition of another person's taste, and saw the individual making this imposition as a kind of dictator"

Henry Flynt, Artist

"It is not enough to know your craft - you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more"

Edouard Manet, Artist

"Color is a matter of taste and of sensitivity"

Edouard Manet, Artist

"I think it's great when girls are artistic"

Henry Thomas, Actor

"My rejection of the idea of entertainment in its current form is based on the audience that comes with it"

David Antin, Poet

"But, ancient Greece and ancient Rome - people did not happen to believe that creativity came from human beings back then, OK? People believed that creativity was this divine attendant spirit that came to human beings from some distant and unknowable source, for distant and unknowable reasons"

Elizabeth Gilbert, Novelist

"You would hardly believe how difficult it is to place a figure alone on a canvas, and to concentrate all the interest on this single and universal figure and still keep it living and real"

Edouard Manet, Artist

"I like roles that are on the extreme ends of the spectrum, and there's special appeal in exploring these slightly forgotten plays that people might think of as subjects for academic term papers instead of live theater"

Geoffrey Rush, Actor

"I love any and all situations where you celebrate creativity"

Brad Paisley, Musician

"I know what I love about acting - and it's the creative process"

William Hurt, Actor

"Senator Helms might very well do that. I would point out to him that we in the art world are not necessarily in the business of making controversial art"

Jane Alexander, Actress

"I think in a weird way that the entertainment industry is strangely more brutally honest than any other"

Donal Logue, Actor

"For each episode, the five of us are all wearing clothes by the same designer. It's a different designer for each episode, but for each one we're all wearing their clothes"

Ted Allen, Entertainer

"I don't know to what extent someone can become an artist - you either are or you aren't - and if you are, you'll have to make your way to some kind of sickly light, no matter how terrible the soil you were seeded in, your nature will out somehow"

David Knopfler, Musician

"I love being objected to. It worries me, but I love being objected to"

Stan Brakhage, Director

"Sometimes, you start with the drawing and then the gag comes to you in the middle of it. That is when you start working on the solution of the gag, which is composition, placing, equilibrium, and character design"

Sergio Aragones, Cartoonist

"If the gag is complicated, you spend more time thinking about the way you're drawing it"

Sergio Aragones, Cartoonist

"I keep very weird hours. I never know when I'm going to get an idea"

Sergio Aragones, Cartoonist

"The talent that I was blessed with was really for the theater"

David Hasselhoff, Actor

"Comics is a great medium to get a lot of stories out"

Sergio Aragones, Cartoonist

"Most artists have experienced the creative block. We get stuck in our work. We beat our head against the wall: nothing. Sometimes, it is because we are trying something at the wrong time?"

Lukas Foss, Composer

"Being able to improvise is the basis for creating all characters and situations, for everything to do with performing, really. And it's good therapy as well"

Chris Kattan, Comedian

"A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him"

Man Ray, Photographer

"All I want to do is make sure that art is available to all Americans in a participatory way, whether you engage in the art process yourself or you're an audience member"

Jane Alexander, Actress

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