Arts, Media & Entertainment: Art Quotes

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"My friends tend to be writers. I think writers and painters are really all the same-we just sit in our rooms"

Howard Hodgkin, Artist

"I look at my pictures, and I think, 'Well, how did I do that?'"

Howard Hodgkin, Artist

"I find old copies of National Gallery catalogues, which are written in the dryest possible prose, infinitely soothing"

Howard Hodgkin, Artist

"I don't think you can lightly paint a picture. It's an activity I take very seriously"

Howard Hodgkin, Artist

"I don't really have a historical overview of my work at all. I'm not an art historian. I don't see that there's this period and that period"

Howard Hodgkin, Artist

"You don't move just because you want to go from this point to that point - The body has to be using the words as well as you vocally use the words"

Eartha Kitt, Actress

"First, there is the bare beauty of the logs themselves with their long lines and firm curves. Then there is the open charm felt of the structural features which are not hidden under plaster and ornament, but are clearly revealed, a charm felt in Japanese architecture"

Gustav Stickley, Architect

"We were totally unprepared for such a large quantity of visitors, and in view of the preservation of the antiquities, they being very crowded and in poor preservation, we were obliged to refuse admission until some preparation was made to safeguard the objects"

Howard Carter, Scientist

"It doesn't upset artists to find out that artists used lenses or mirrors or other aids, but it certainly does upset the art historians"

Chuck Close, Artist

"I think most paintings are a record of the decisions that the artist made. I just perhaps make them a little clearer than some people have"

Chuck Close, Artist

"You keep on balancing and balancing and balancing until the picture wins, because then the subject's turned into the picture"

Howard Hodgkin, Artist

"In the United States, there has been a kind of a structure in the Modern art world. The New York School was nearly a coherent thing-for a minute"

Howard Hodgkin, Artist

"I'm vulnerable to criticism. Any artist is, because you work alone in your studio and, until recently, critics were the only way you'd get any feedback"

Howard Hodgkin, Artist

"I am isolated as an artist, not as a person"

Howard Hodgkin, Artist

"A painting is finished when the subject comes back, when what has caused the painting to be made comes back as an object"

Howard Hodgkin, Artist

"Live theater, to me, is much more free than the movies or television"

Eartha Kitt, Actress

"In the middle 1940s... I heard everyone live. Painting, the theater; everything was happening. It was an exciting time when New York was the place to be"

Bill Dixon, Musician

"Sometimes I really want to paint somebody, and I don't get a photograph that I want to work from"

Chuck Close, Artist

"I wanted to translate from one flat surface to another. In fact, my learning disabilities controlled a lot of things. I don't recognize faces, so I'm sure it's what drove me to portraits in the first place"

Chuck Close, Artist

"This is where you see the truth of entertainment, because it is not edited. You see it on stage as it is happening. Even if we fall down or forget our words, it's a part of live entertainment"

Eartha Kitt, Actress

"There's something about doing theatre in London - it sinks a little bit deeper into your soul as an actor. It's something about the tradition of theatre, about performing on the West End stage"

Christian Slater, Actor

"Sculpture occupies real space like we do... You walk around it and relate to it almost as another person or another object"

Chuck Close, Artist

"Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum, and I see how somebody figured another way to rub colored dirt on a flat surface, and make space where there is no space, or make you think of a life experience"

Chuck Close, Artist

"I thought I saw him for what he was-or what I thought he was. And he was talented, no doubt about that. But, he thought his talent was based on misery and that if he became happy it would just go. He believed that"

Fay Wray, Actress

"The creative works of the entertainment industry belong to the millions of people who make them, and are not for others to steal or unlawfully distribute"

Dan Glickman, Politician

"I think that in the end, a talk show is a very different animal"

Dan Abrams, Journalist

"Even colors were important to me. If it was a somber scene, the colors were muted and dark. If it was a happy or seductive scene, the colors were brighter"

Donna Mills, Actress

"Theatre is immediate gratification"

Chita Rivera, Actress

"I've played American, Italian, Greek, French. I've been really lucky that way"

Chita Rivera, Actress

"There might've been wires, but I have this ability to make myself light. Well, you know what, in ballet, when you kind of lift yourself here, it's all up in the head"

Albert Finney, Actor

"I think that one of Tim's great qualities and abilities is in what seems like a thumbnail sketch to get something quite telling, very simply, when you're doing it or being in that thumbnail sketch, you don't feel that it's important"

Albert Finney, Actor

"I try and make little stories. Whether it's with a pencil or with bits of records, it's really the same thing"

Eric San, Musician

"I sometimes have a horrible fear of turning up a canvas of mine. I'm always afraid of finding a monster in place of the precious jewels I thought I had put there!"

Camille Pissarro, Artist

"Cover the canvas at the first go, then work at it until you see nothing more to add"

Camille Pissarro, Artist

"In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is"

Douglas Sirk, Director

"If I can say one thing for my pictures, it is a certain craftsmanship. A thought which has gone into every angle. There is nothing there without an optical reason"

Douglas Sirk, Director

"At the same time, of course, Marxism arose - Rosa Luxembourg, Leninism, anarchism - and art became political"

Douglas Sirk, Director

"Acting is also working with people who invite you into their dreams and trust you with their innermost being"

Catherine Deneuve, Actress

"It is only by drawing often, drawing everything, drawing incessantly, that one fine day, you discover, to your surprise, that you have rendered something in its true character"

Camille Pissarro, Artist

"In any of the arts, you never stop learning"

Claire Bloom, Actress

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