Arts, Media & Entertainment: Art Quotes

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"Thought is more important than art. To revere art and have no understanding of the process that forces it into existence, is finally not even to understand what art is"

Amiri Baraka, Poet

"There is, however, a change going on in the world. There's far more interest in drawing now than there has been in a long, long time. Schools are beginning to teach drawing again in a serious and meaningful way"

Leonard Baskin, Artist

"Of course, I did lots of what would be called graphic design now, what used to be called commercial art"

Leonard Baskin, Artist

"The procedure was that an artist got a mural and then he would have anywhere from two to ten assistants depending on the size of the mural and how many assistants he needed, or she needed"

Lee Krasner, Artist

"My own image of my work is that I no sooner settle into something than a break occurs. These breaks are always painful and depressing but despite them, I see that there's a consistency that holds out, but is hard to define"

Lee Krasner, Artist

"As I say, I, as an abstract artist, was active politically"

Lee Krasner, Artist

"You've got to love the villain if you have to play him. You've got to find something that you can live with in yourself if you're going to play the villain in a play on stage"

Jim Dale, Musician

"I see the cartoonist as contributing to the content, being critical, because we do poke holes in some of the dialogue and find new ways of seeing things"

Jonathan Shapiro, Cartoonist

"I normally keep a series of draft in a catalogue type of book in which I scribble, sketch and draw ideas"

Jonathan Shapiro, Cartoonist

"You were told how much space, so it was a matter of whether you could send in two paintings or three paintings, you know, pending where the show was being held. You did submit work to be accepted. Once you were accepted, that was it. You did your own selection of what went in"

Lee Krasner, Artist

"Painting... in which the inner and the outer man are inseparable, transcends technique, transcends subject and moves into the realm of the inevitable"

Lee Krasner, Artist

"I don't go to that many Broadway shows, so I can't really say anything"

Kenneth Edmonds, Musician

"I began demonstrating against serious culture. In hindsight, the actual course of events has been very humiliating for me, because no one picked up on the intellectual critique I made"

Henry Flynt, Artist

"In the nineteenth century the more grandiose word, inspiration, began to replace the word, idea, in the arts"

Lukas Foss, Composer

"I don't dare postulate about science, but I know that it takes both emotion and intellect in order for art to happen"

Lukas Foss, Composer

"For years that may mean imitation. Then, one day, it is like a door opening, and a new thought comes in. Why not try this instead. Suddenly he is doing something original, almost in spite of himself"

Lukas Foss, Composer

"I have no acting technique. I act instinctively. That's why I can't play any role that isn't based on something in my life"

Ethel Waters, Musician

"Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without them"

Louise Bogan, Poet

"I feel my job as an actor is to explore all sides of humanity"

Kyra Sedgwick, Actress

"Works of art produced in the contemporary world are a further expression of that. But I don't think there is an active, ongoing nihilist self-consciousness in the artist"

Leonard Baskin, Artist

"The art schools... You get young kids doing the most vile and meaningless crap. I think they believe every bit of it"

Leonard Baskin, Artist

"The Comedy Store in LA, it's a really loose room and it's really dark and creepy and a great place to explore your own thoughts onstage"

Joe Rogan, Comedian

"Well, let's say we acknowledged the School of French Painting - the Paris School of Painting as the leading force and vitality of the time. I think that was understood and felt and experienced"

Lee Krasner, Artist

"We sat down and read it for the first time and I thanked God under my breath, because they were all so good. And my leading ladies are both exceptional. I mean, everybody in the play. I could just go on all night about them!"

Gavin MacLeod, Actor

"In art, the obvious is a sin"

Edward Dmytryk, Director

"To illustrate what I mean, an apt dancer may be in thorough unison with the others in that particular group, and at the same time reveal a difference in dancing temperament, rhythm or technique; she may phrase, accentuate or actually interpret differently"

Florenz Ziegfeld, Producer

"I'm supposed to be a pretty good theater actor"

John Malkovich, Actor

"Well, we certainly weren't making a cartoon show for kids. It was a completely different kind of idea"

Dave Rowntree, Musician

"When you're drawing comics, you get very involved in how the story is going to develop, and you spend more time daydreaming on that particular subject"

Sergio Aragones, Cartoonist

"The New York playgoer is a child of nature, and he has an honest and wholesome regard of whatever is atrocious in art"

Frank Moore Colby, Educator

"The play is on top of me all the time, and I am constantly thinking about it. Even when I leave the theatre, I'll mumble the lines to myself or think about the way the character walks or holds himself"

Donald Pleasence, Actor

"When Picasso painted in Paris, was he a Spanish or a French painter? It does not matter, he was Picasso, whatever the influences surrounding him. He simply chose Paris because it was the ideal place for him to sell his creation"

Jean-Jacques Annaud, Director

"'Mad Men' was really my first television role, and it never feels like TV to me. It's done at such a high level"

January Jones, Actress

"The public must suffer untold pangs from the stiffness, the deliberate stifling of emotion, on the part of many British actors"

Ivor Novello, Musician

"Matisse was very clear about saying that you have to blow your own trumpet and explain yourself, which I think has been slightly forgotten"

Howard Hodgkin, Artist

"I don't look at the work of my contemporaries very much; I tend to look at pictures by dead artists. It's much easier to get near their paintings"

Howard Hodgkin, Artist

"I never regarded my pictures as very much to be proud of, except in this, the craft, the style"

Douglas Sirk, Director

"I strongly suggest that we play down basics like who influenced whom, and instead study the way the influence is transformed, in other words: how the artist made it his own"

Lukas Foss, Composer

"Flesh sells. People don't want to see pictures of churches. They want to see naked bodies"

Helen Mirren, Actress

"All the great novels, all the great films, all the great dramas are fictions that actually tell us the truth about us or about human nature or about human situations without being tied into the minutia of documentary events. Otherwise we might as well just make documentaries"

Jeremy Northam, Actor

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