Arts, Media & Entertainment: Art Quotes

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"I don't think art is a goal orientated business. I don't do things for the challenges, I only do them because I love them, I'm not really a goal orientated, achiever type of person"

Greg Lake, Musician

"I want my pictures to be things. I want them to be made up of marks that are physically and individually self-sufficient"

Howard Hodgkin, Artist

"I think words come between the spectator and the picture"

Howard Hodgkin, Artist

"A collection makes its own demands. Many artists have been collectors. I think of it rather as an illness. I felt it was using up too much energy"

Howard Hodgkin, Artist

"Any creator owes a debt to past creation"

Lukas Foss, Composer

"Always think that in any area of the arts, you get maybe ten percent of people who are creative, original... and the rest are generally following on, copying"

Hugh Hopper, Musician

"The picture is a self-sufficient work of art. It is not connected to anything outside!"

Kurt Schwitters, Artist

"That is why the analogy of stealing does not work. With a thief, we want to know how much money he stole, and from whom. With the artist, it is not how much he took and from whom, but what he did with it"

Lukas Foss, Composer

"Personality is essential. It is in every work of art. When someone walks on stage for a performance and has charisma, everyone is convinced that he has personality. I find that charisma is merely a form of showmanship. Movie stars usually have it. A politician has to have it"

Lukas Foss, Composer

"How little the public realizes what a girl must go through before she finally appears before the spotlight that is thrown upon the stage"

Florenz Ziegfeld, Producer

"Curtain! Fast music! Light! Ready for the last finale! Great! The show looks good, the show looks good!"

Florenz Ziegfeld, Producer

"A new gadget that lasts only five minutes is worth more than an immortal work that bores everyone"

Francis Picabia, Artist

"Someone told me that there's a connection to Superman, that in an early edition of the Green Lantern comics, Tomar Re was the envoy to Krypton. That was fascinating to me"

Geoffrey Rush, Actor

"But as my voice coach keeps saying, if we actually spoke the way they imagine the Elizabethan voice might have been, we wouldn't be able to understand it"

Geoffrey Rush, Actor

"We were astonished by the beauty and refinement of the art displayed by the objects surpassing all we could have imagined - The impression was overwhelming"

Howard Carter, Scientist

"In the studio, I do try to have a thought in my head, so that it's not like a blank stare"

Cindy Crawford, Model

"All the fingerprint paintings are done without a grid"

Chuck Close, Artist

"Not only may she unconsciously register a favorable impression with my associates and me, but she may also suggest something by her work that will lead to some new and novel feature in a forthcoming production"

Florenz Ziegfeld, Producer

"And then you start getting into the technical side of it, and the aesthetic side, and with those areas, you can come up with new ways to visualise things, new ways to render and use the computer to make things look different and new, and stuff like that"

Dennis Muren, Artist

"The Corporation for Public Broadcasting distributes an annual appropriation that we provide in accordance with a statutory formula, the vast majority of which goes directly to public radio and television stations"

Earl Blumenauer, Politician

"When inspiration does not come, I go for a walk, go to the movie, talk to a friend, let go... The muse is bound to return again, especially if I turn my back!"

Judy Collins, Musician

"You know who a role model for me is? George Ballanchine"

Isaac Mizrahi, Designer

"I take photographs with love, so I try to make them art objects. But I make them for myself first and foremost - that is important"

Jacques-Henri Lartigue, Photographer

"I just saw a copy of a cover of a magazine that I'm on, and it's very weird and unusual"

Mia Kirshner, Actress

"I love being someone I'm not for a period of time. I love every minute of being in someone else's skin!"

Jessica Biel, Actress

"Lillian Gish thought that there should be a cabinet position for the arts and I think she was right. I think she was right"

Fay Wray, Actress

"Now to consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going for a walk. Such rules and laws are deduced from the accomplished fact; they are the products of reflection"

Edward Weston, Photographer

"My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, for the camera's eye may entirely change my idea"

Edward Weston, Photographer

"I was extravagant in the matter of cameras - anything photographic - I had to have the best. But that was to further my work. In most things I have gone along with the plainest - or without"

Edward Weston, Photographer

"I see no reason for recording the obvious"

Edward Weston, Photographer

"The picture surface recedes just as much in the 20th century as it did in the 15th. The techniques of making pictures have hardly changed"

Howard Hodgkin, Artist

"What we do is look for high standards of excellence in the arts"

Jane Alexander, Actress

"It's hard to regulate the speed at which you can achieve something creative and emotional"

Carol Kane, Actress

"You feel like a prisoner if you don't create. You're jailed up inside of yourself"

Edie Brickell, Musician

"You take a plug and put it in a socket, and that's what the theatre is-it lights up right away. You speak, and they respond immediately"

Chita Rivera, Actress

"I get bored doing one thing only. I've been very lucky to explore a lot of different artistic territory and I don't see why I won't continue on that path"

Bill Mumy, Actor

"Paint the essential character of things"

Camille Pissarro, Artist

"The best way to investigate the elusive phenomenon called the creative process may well be to target all the misconceptions, to explain what the creative process is not"

Lukas Foss, Composer

"I am interested in the art. I'm a professional woman"

Claire Bloom, Actress

"Security has no place in the life of an actress"

Claire Bloom, Actress

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