Arts, Media & Entertainment: Art Quotes

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Robert Musil, Writer

"What's most important in animation is the emotions and the ideas being portrayed. I'm a great believer of energy and emotion"

Ralph Bakshi, Director

"Everything starts from a dot"

Wassily Kandinsky, Artist

"Every ballet, whether or not successful artistically or with the public, has given me something important"

Mikhail Baryshnikov, Dancer

"Artistically, I am still a child with a whole life ahead of me to discover and create. I want something, but I won't know what it is until I succeed in doing it"

Alberto Giacometti, Sculptor

"It does not matter how badly you paint, so long as you don't paint badly like other people"

George Edward Moore, Philosopher

"Painters must speak through paint, not through words"

Hans Hofmann, Artist

"I feel that I'm at my best as a person, and that I'm coming home when I walk on to a set, or on to a stage, so if I can perform in one way or another, I think I'll be okay"

Claudia Black, Actress

"Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle"

Balthus, Artist

"I am impressed with what happens when someone stays in the same place and you took the same picture over and over and it would be different, every single frame"

Annie Leibovitz, Photographer

"The painter should paint not only what he has in front of him, but also what he sees inside himself"

Caspar David Friedrich, Artist

"You don't need a framework. You need a painting, not a frame"

Klaus Kinski, Actor

"Open a magazine from the 1930s and '40s and look at the illustrations in it. There's nobody alive that could touch the way they could draw back then"

John Kricfalusi, Artist

"When I am putting looks together, I dare myself to make something work. I always look for the most interesting silhouette or something that's a little off, but I have to figure it out. I have to make it me. I think that's the thrill in fashion"

Rihanna, Musician

"All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites"

Marc Chagall, Artist

"Everyone is, of course, free to interpret the work in his own way. I think seeing a picture is one thing and interpreting it is another"

Jasper Johns, Artist

"Style is primarily a matter of instinct"

Bill Blass, Designer

"You have to make thousands and thousands of drawings before an illustration is perfected"

Richard MacDonald, Sculptor

"Art is such an important part of our culture"

Rosanna Arquette, Actress

"To be a good draftsman was, to me, a blessing"

John James Audubon, Scientist

"I got into underground comics fairly early on and kind of wandered away from the superhero stuff, but I was an art student and I was drawing a lot as a kid"

Jonathan Lethem, Writer

"Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn't look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself"

Roy Lichtenstein, Artist

"Of the thousands of people, celebrated and unknown, who have sat before my camera, I am often asked who was the most difficult subject, or the easiest, or which picture is my favorite. This last question is like asking a mother which child she likes the most"

Philippe Halsman, Photographer

"We didn't know anything about comedy duos - Abbot and Costello, Martin and Lewis - we didn't know anything about that. Kim Fields showed us a tape of Martin and Lewis and their old shows and they come through the curtain so we started doing research on them"

Kel Mitchell, Actor

"I paint German artists whom I admire. I paint their pictures, their work as painters, and their portraits too. But oddly enough, each of these portraits ends up as a picture of a woman with blonde hair. I myself have never been able to work out why this happens"

Georg Baselitz, Artist

"With the brush we merely tint, while the imagination alone produces colour"

Theodore Gericault, Artist

"I'd never painted anything before. I was quite content to take other people's work since I didn't care anyway about the subject matter. I approached subject matter as a scoundrel. I had nothing to say about it whatsoever. I only wanted to make these exciting paintings"

Tom Wesselmann, Artist

"A true portrait should, today and a hundred years from today, the testimony of how this person looked and what kind of human being he was"

Philippe Halsman, Photographer

"Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself"

Ralph Fiennes, Actor

"Buying books was a way anyone could acquire a work of art for very little"

Sol LeWitt, Artist

"In such ugly times, the only true protest is beauty"

Phil Ochs, Musician

"The greatest success is creating whatever you want without conditions. I don't do commissions unless I really want to, because it's like having a job"

Richard MacDonald, Sculptor

"Reality shows are all the rage on TV at the moment, but that's not reality, it's just another aesthetic form of fiction"

Steven Soderbergh, Director

"As far as I am concerned, the paint is the person. I want it to work for me just as flesh does"

Lucian Freud, Artist

"Fred Astaire was a more formal, trained dancer who loved waltzing and only danced with the girls"

Leslie Caron, Actress

"Our work is a scream of freedom"

Christo, Artist

"It is part of the photographer's job to see more intensely than most people do. He must have and keep in him something of the receptiveness of the child who looks at the world for the first time or of the traveler who enters a strange country"

Bill Brandt, Photographer

"And only the photographer himself knows the effect he wants. He should know by instinct, grounded in experience, what subjects are enhanced by hard or soft, light or dark treatment"

Bill Brandt, Photographer

"I've done Graham Norton's show three times now. He tackles taboos and subject matter that wouldn't make it past the censors in the States"

Kyle MacLachlan, Actor

"The subject matter is so much more important than the photographer"

Gordon Parks, Photographer

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