Arts, Media & Entertainment: Art Quotes

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"An artist's duty is rather to stay open-minded and in a state where he can receive information and inspiration. You always have to be ready for that little artistic epiphany"

Nick Cave, Musician

"Lovers of painting and lovers of music are people who openly display their preference like a delectable ailment that isolates them and makes them proud"

Maurice Blanchot, Writer

"Whether you listen to a piece of music, or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug, or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own"

Basil Bunting, Poet

"Creative people who have made their seemingly most self-indulgent artistic whims into a career"

Steve Purcell, Artist

"I don't see it as a form of healing, because if you have wounds that are bleeding I don't think acting will ever get them to stop. But I find acting is a form of illumination"

Rebecca De Mornay, Actress

"Such lovely warmth of thought and delicacy of colour are beyond all praise, and equally beyond all thanks!"

Marie Corelli, Novelist

"Inspiration doesn't really work like that - you're not looking out for it. Inspiration is something that tends to capture you rather than you capture it"

Joan Armatrading, Musician

"I am among the few who continue to draw after childhood is ended, continuing and perfecting childhood drawing - without the traditional interruption of academic training"

Saul Steinberg, Artist

"I thought Out of Action was better as a catalogue than the honeycomb because the honeycomb was like walking into one compartment and then another compartment"

Richard Serra, Sculptor

"But what does interest me is the notion that if you do a lot of work, it means there's a potential for other people to understand that a lot of things are possible with a sustained effort, and that the broadening of experiences is possible, and I think that's all art can be"

Richard Serra, Sculptor

"But I don't think of any particular viewer in mind other than myself"

Richard Serra, Sculptor

"All that's left now is purely poetic work, putting more life into individual places, as I've made so sure of the fundamental mood and dimension of expression that it won't leave me groping around in uncertainty any more"

Oskar Kokoschka, Artist

"I am quite certain in my heart of hearts that modern music and modern art is not a conspiracy, but is a form of truth and integrity for those who practise it honestly, decently and with all their being"

Michael Tippett, Composer

"I always liked circuses, so I would have enjoyed that"

Lee Hazlewood, Musician

"I like to cast actors I admire, ones that are talented. Each one will bring something new to the part. This play has been done thousands of times and now certain characters are too familiar"

Kenneth Branagh, Actor

"I do think that, for instance, we've been very lucky to have theatrical careers and be associated with Shakespeare which sometimes gives you a kind of bogus kudos"

Kenneth Branagh, Actor

"I know there are going to be big challenges financially, but I'm excited artistically. I think that if the experience is better artistically, then we have more hope in the future"

Karen Kain, Dancer

"It's great to watch someone get the most out of what they can do, whether they're a beautiful performer or just a really gritty performer. It's something to behold"

John Turturro, Actor

"South Park started as a little video Christmas card"

Joel Hodgson, Entertainer

"Initially I probably didn't even call it acting, but dressing up or something. As a kid I think you fully imagine the world in which you want to inhabit, so you put some clothes on and just kind of freely imagine this world, and it's a total imaginary world"

Hugo Weaving, Actor

"From my point of view, there is a lot of joy in stage work"

George Peppard, Actor

"What does that represent? There was never any question in plastic art, in poetry, in music, of representing anything. It is a matter of making something beautiful, moving, or dramatic - this is by no means the same thing"

Fernand Leger, Artist

"I want to do theater, and I am looking forward to doing more television and movies. I also want to direct some plays in theater workshops for people with disabilities"

Chris Burke, Actor

"In the theatre, the actor is given immediate feedback"

Charles Keating, Lawyer

"Whatever is about you that is translated into your art, that's gonna keep you completly original and fresh, and I just think that, that's just the best advice I can give, to an artist creatively"

Bubba Sparxxx, Musician

"You have to transmit to them what it's like being in the theater. And it has to come from somewhere inside you and not by being like what somebody did last year"

Adolph Green, Playwright

"Television has made places look alike, and it has transformed the way we see. A whole generation of Americans, maybe two, has grown up looking at the world through a lens"

Ronald Steel, Writer

"I noticed recently, in the last few shows I did, that I'm starting to get people - not a large group, but quite a few people - who come to see me because they love Curb Your Enthusiasm"

Wanda Sykes, Comedian

"Even on a personal note, my dressing table downstairs is crowded with things, like a mini landscape. It's a city with buildings and towers and roads. There's a pool and a little park. When I move something around it becomes a different tableau"

Tony Curtis, Actor

"I would just sketch everything that was being made for the collections"

Stephen Sprouse, Designer

"Tech Jacket shares the same tone as Invincible, but the subject matter is very different. Where Invincible is about perfection, Tech Jacket is about flaws"

Robert Kirkman, Writer

"I like good stories above all else... and kickin' art really goes the final stretch to ensure a comic is good"

Robert Kirkman, Writer

"I don't believe that I should just do A-movies, I just do the work as an artist"

Pam Grier, Actress

"I make paintings, try to get others to look at them, and hopefully buy them"

Mike Thompson, Politician

"I don't have much of a problem with interruptions. I keep a detailed record of paint and materials as a work on each painting. I can restart exactly where I left off"

Mike Thompson, Politician

"If you think about Shakespeare, you remember Richard III and Macbeth before you remember Ferdinand, whose role is just to fall in love and be a bit of a wimp. I love the baddies. More important, though, is making the baddies somehow, weirdly, understood"

Mark Strong, Actor

"Theatre sports is the best improv training, period"

Wayne Brady, Comedian

"I have always wanted to be on Broadway, whether on ice or on the boards"

Robin Cousins, Athlete

"I borrow bits from everyone"

Janice Dickinson, Model

"What they can expect always is that they're going to be made to think"

Peter Maxwell Davies, Composer

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