Arts, Media & Entertainment: Art Quotes

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"I'm quite sure that all true professional artists, of every description, in all walks of life, whether their craft is painting, music, sculpture, medicine or anything, have one primary concern - mankind"

Chico Hamilton, Musician

"I started to get bored with that stuff about only drawing men, and I've taken it out of the slideshow"

Alison Bechdel, Cartoonist

"I once was interviewed and got so exasperated that I said, 'What do you want, a shopping list?' They kept asking, 'What's in this picture?'"

Howard Hodgkin, Artist

"So when I looked at pictures and produced my calendar and edited the pictures, it wasn't just about looking at myself and thinking I'm attractive. I try to take myself out of it and get into the whole process of putting it all together"

Brooke Burke, Model

"After about 15 minutes, you feel that you're winning them over"

Chita Rivera, Actress

"The guys from Atari that are making the next Alone in the Dark game came, and we had a great meeting. I'd love to do that. I'm a fan of videogames. I like them. And to get to be part of one of them would be a fun and exciting thing"

Christian Slater, Actor

"I remember that, although I was full of fervour, I didn't have the slightest inkling, even at forty, of the deeper side to the movement we were pursuing by instinct. It was in the air!"

Camille Pissarro, Artist

"I regard it as a waste of time to think only of selling: one forgets one's art and exaggerates one's value"

Camille Pissarro, Artist

"But there's a difference between having artistic interests and being psychotic. That's more than a fine line of differentiation, and I do see that a bit too much"

Crispin Glover, Actor

"Usually I'm the one who does the covers. And I just said, man, it would be nice to see what somebody else could do, outside of this thing. A fresher look. And I never, in a million years, would have come up with this. Believe me!"

Alan Vega, Musician

"I grew up on a farm, and we didn't have cable and only limited radio stations, so I wasn't inundated with culture the way people in other parts of the country were. But I was really interested in it"

Chuck Klosterman, Critic

"You know, the way art history is taught, often there's nothing that tells you why the painting is great. The description of a lousy painting and the description of a great painting will very much sound the same"

Chuck Close, Artist

"It's always a pleasure to talk about someone else's work"

Chuck Close, Artist

"I discovered about 150 dots is the minimum number of dots to make a specific recognizable person. You can make something that looks like a head, with fewer dots, but you won't be able to give much information about who it is"

Chuck Close, Artist

"To be a character who feels a deep emotion, one must go into the memory's vault and mix in a sad memory from one's own life"

Albert Finney, Actor

"I love Jules Feiffer. I didn't discover him until I was a little older"

Alison Bechdel, Cartoonist

"Even in times when it's difficult to figure out, how do you go forward, art - and books - always help"

Alice Hoffman, Author

"Now almost every artist outside of New York is connected with some school or some museum school, and even in New York the majority are. That's an interesting fact when you take the idea of making money, making a living selling paintings. Only a dozen or two painters do that"

Ad Reinhardt, Artist

"If some student came up and wanted to know where to study painting, you'd want to suggest someplace, but there's no place. I wouldn't know where to send a student to study"

Ad Reinhardt, Artist

"You jot down ideas, memories, whatever, concerning your real life that somehow parallels the character you're playing, and you incorporate that in your scene work"

Chris Cooper, Actor

"You can feel whether an audience is tightened up and pulled back. Of course, the opposite is an audience like we've been having in LA, which is fabulous"

Chita Rivera, Actress

"San Francisco has just blown us all away. I also understand Angels in America didn't do well there"

Chita Rivera, Actress

"I would have liked, maybe, to be in architecture or painting, something connected to the fine arts"

Catherine Deneuve, Actress

"I always try to keep that feeling of being on the edge. I'm afraid of knowing too well and seeming mechanical"

Catherine Deneuve, Actress

"Observe that it is a great error to believe that all mediums of art are not closely tied to their time"

Camille Pissarro, Artist

"Well, I've been a big fan of comic books since I was a little kid. In fact, I used to write and draw my own comic books when I was on the old Lost in Space series"

Bill Mumy, Actor

"Our show is less about a girl who is doing miracles and more about the domino effect of this girl's life, and how everyone else is affected. Our show seems to be a questioning show as opposed to an action sort of fairy tale"

Amber Tamblyn, Actress

"I just love the world of photography"

Brooke Burke, Model

"On stage, the audience watches from a fixed viewpoint and the director cannot retake something he doesn't like. It has to work straight through"

Bruce Beresford, Director

"Listen, people like Brian Bendis did great things for comic readers, great things for comic readers"

Avi Arad, Businessman

"My dream as a youngster was to be like Olivier. To be a great stage actor. To be a great Shakespearean actor. To me that is the Olympics of acting!"

Armand Assante, Actor

"Art does imitate life, it has to come from somewhere. To put boundaries and limitations on it doesn't make a lot of sense to me"

Christian Slater, Actor

"Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything"

Ad Reinhardt, Artist

"I taught a lot of art history, especially Chinese, Japanese, and Indian. But the painting classes came back. The nudes came back. Not so much the still lifes. So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities"

Ad Reinhardt, Artist

"Art is Art. Everything else is everything else"

Ad Reinhardt, Artist

"The satiric ethos of Mad was a much bigger childhood influence"

Alison Bechdel, Cartoonist

"Acting is a total physical, emotional sensation"

Armand Assante, Actor

"I'm showing some of my sculptures in Holland in the spring, so we'll see"

Alan Vega, Musician

"Art is too serious to be taken seriously"

Ad Reinhardt, Artist

"Even drawing gray hair at all is difficult to render in black and white"

Alison Bechdel, Cartoonist

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