Arts, Media & Entertainment: Art Quotes

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"My sister-in-law is a painter, and I'll say, How long did it take you to paint that painting? She'll say, It took me maybe three days, but it took me all my life to get the skills to paint that painting"

Anthony Doerr, Writer

"Just when I think I hate fashion, I hate clothes, I'm seized by this crazy thing that I have to do. I have this little studio now where I just draw. I can be in the room for three days and not even look up"

Isaac Mizrahi, Designer

"I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear"

Vera Wang, Designer

"I work with structure, but I go outside the box and give it my own spin. I adore the challenge of creating truly modern clothes - where a woman's personality and sense of style are realized"

Vera Wang, Designer

"I see myself as a true modernist. Even when I do a traditional gown, I give it a modern twist. I go to the past for research. I need to know what came before so I can break the rules!"

Vera Wang, Designer

"I adore the challenge of creating truly modern clothes, where a woman's personality and sense of self are revealed. I want people to see the dress, but focus on the woman"

Vera Wang, Designer

"Fashion offers no greater challenge than finding what works for night without looking like you are wearing a costume"

Vera Wang, Designer

"All those years of skating and dancing have carried over. I can't design anything without thinking of how a woman's body will look and move when she's wearing it"

Vera Wang, Designer

"I'm into sincerity in music and sincerity in art. If it doesn't feel true, I don't want to do it. Things that are too dramatic scare me. I think that's why I don't always fit into the world of performing arts"

Zooey Deschanel, Actress

"I was quiet, a loner. I was one of those children where, if you put me in a room and gave me some crayons and a pencils, you wouldn't hear from me for nine straight hours. And I was always drawing racing cars and rockets and spaceships and planes, things that were very fast that would take me away"

Gary Oldman, Actor

"We assert that the subject is crucial and only that subject matter is valid which is tragic and timeless"

Mark Rothko, Artist

"This would be a distortion of their meaning, since the pictures are intimate and intense, and are the opposite of what is decorative; and have been painted in a scale of normal living rather than an institutional scale"

Mark Rothko, Artist

"There is no such thing as good painting about nothing"

Mark Rothko, Artist

"That is why we profess a spiritual kinship with primitive and archaic art"

Mark Rothko, Artist

"It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well painted. This is the essence of academicism"

Mark Rothko, Artist

"If our titles recall the known myths of antiquity, we have used them again because they are the eternal symbols upon which we must fall back to express basic psychological ideas"

Mark Rothko, Artist

"I wasn't ever a huge fan of comics. Just not one of those kids, you know?"

Gary Oldman, Actor

"Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit, and the only means of making concrete the purpose of its varied quickness and stillness"

Mark Rothko, Artist

"And last, it may be worthwhile trying to hang something beyond the partial wall because some of the pictures do very well in a confined space"

Mark Rothko, Artist

"What sculptors do is represent the essence of gesture. What is important in mime is attitude"

Marcel Marceau, Actor

"To communicate through silence is a link between the thoughts of man"

Marcel Marceau, Actor

"In silence and movement you can show the reflection of people"

Marcel Marceau, Actor

"I have designed my style pantomimes as white ink drawings on black backgrounds, so that man's destiny appears as a thread lost in an endless labyrinth. I have tried to shed some gleams of light on the shadow of man startled by his anguish"

Marcel Marceau, Actor

"What you do, you don't think of as a product"

Isaac Mizrahi, Designer

"This is what I like about being a designer: You can't really get it until you see it"

Isaac Mizrahi, Designer

"That's one thing about fashion that you really shouldn't be-you can't be melancholy in fashion because people don't respond to it"

Isaac Mizrahi, Designer

"The view outside was much more important than the exhibits"

Minoru Yamasaki, Architect

"So what we have tried to do in our later buildings is to try to be completely consistent, as a painter is consistent or as a sculptor is consistent. Architecture also must be very consistent"

Minoru Yamasaki, Architect

"Japanese architecture is very much copied in this country and in Europe"

Minoru Yamasaki, Architect

"I never knew any painter worthy of the name who paid the smallest attention to what a critic says, even in conversation"

Robert Baldwin Ross, Celebrity

"My main point is to entertain in a way that is unique and different from what anybody else id doing; to apply my voice in a way that nobody else in the industry is applying theirs"

Rob Walton, Athlete

"Marvel has put out good product. DC has put out good product. Even Image has put out good product, as far as I'm concerned... although it's few and far between. But it's not getting recognized, no matter who's doing it"

Rob Walton, Athlete

"Everything I've done is an old Marvel comic in its' own way"

Rob Walton, Athlete

"These rough sketches, which are born in an instant in the heat of inspiration, express the idea of their author in a few strokes, while on the other hand too much effort and diligence sometimes saps the vitality and powers of those who never know when to leave off"

Giorgio Vasari, Artist

"In our own time it has been seen... that simple children, roughly brought up in the wilderness, have begun to draw by themselves, impelled by their own natural genius, instructed solely by the example of these beautiful paintings and sculptures of Nature"

Giorgio Vasari, Artist

"Art owes its origin to Nature herself... This beautiful creation, the world, supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence which has not only made us superior to the other animals, but like God Himself, if I may venture to say it"

Giorgio Vasari, Artist

"The hidden child wants to be able to participate and to co-create in art, rather than being simply an admiring viewer"

Christian Morgenstern, Poet

"The avant-garde are people who don't exactly know where they want to go, but are the first to get there"

Romain Gary, Novelist

"In this tour around the world, I was not interested in contemporary buildings, because I had seen contemporary buildings, actually, until they came out of my ears, in a sense"

Minoru Yamasaki, Architect

"In other words, I have no truck for anyone who goes out and does an eclectic building"

Minoru Yamasaki, Architect

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