Arts, Media & Entertainment: Art Quotes

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"An artist's sphere of influence is the world"

Carl Maria von Weber, Composer

"If your mind is at work, we're in danger of reproducing another cliche. If we can keep our minds out of it and our thoughts out of it, maybe we'll come up with something original"

Peter Falk, Actor

"I've always wanted to perform on the London stage"

Mimi Rogers, Actress

"There are particular images that I like. Allegro is composed of a series of still life photographs that has been put to speed. There is so much care that has gone into the composition of the cinematography"

Helena Christensen, Model

"I always think of the character as being me, but me wearing a 'coat', which may be a different way of speaking, moving or regarding other people. To me, acting is pretending, just like kids playing, only you pretend as if it were really, really real"

Fred Melamed, Actor

"The final test of a painting, theirs, mine, any other, is: does the painter's emotions come across?"

Franz Kline, Artist

"Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times"

Agnes de Mille, Dancer

"Every milieu has something ridiculous about it - film-making, the music world, painting - because people who take themselves seriously become funny pretty quickly"

Rebecca Miller, Director

"That's something I learned in art school. I studied graphic design in Germany, and my professor emphasized the responsibility that designers and illustrators have towards the people they create things for"

Eric Carle, Author

"Only a great actor finds the difficulties of the actor's art infinite"

Ellen Terry, Actress

"The curtains would open and it would be just her standing in some ludicrous pose, like Aphrodite"

Lesley-Anne Down, Actress

"People are predominant in my paintings. Although they are not obvious, you can feel their presence"

Ralph Allen, Politician

"Writing and painting are the same for me"

Peter Malkin, Public Servant

"Olivier said that drama is an affair of the heart, or it's nothing, and he was right"

Pam Gems, Playwright

"We've carried that over into the visual development as well. We've designed quite an exotic cast of characters, but the last thing we want is to dictate to the players how their PCs should look. What we want to do is inspire"

Sam Wood, Director

"I think there's always a call for people who are bucking the norm. But I don't expect it to happen now because I think that more than ever the entertainment industry is trying to serve as a distraction, to keep people from thinking too hard"

Guy Picciotto, Musician

"One was never taught how to begin at drama school. But all it required was one intake of breath"

Elaine Paige, Musician

"That's what I always enjoyed about acting, the real adrenalin rush. My heart - still before I go on stage - crashing out of my chest. That's thrilling to me"

Billy Crudup, Actor

"It's very difficult for me to dislike an artist. No matter what he's creating, the fact that he's experiencing the joy of creation makes me feel like we're in a brotherhood of some kind... we're in it together"

Chick Corea, Musician

"He was one of those inexplicable gifts of nature, an artist who leaps over boundaries, changes our nervous systems, creates a new language, transmits new kinds of joy to our startled senses and spirits"

Jack Kroll, Editor

"Artists are just children who refuse to put down their crayons"

Al Hirschfeld, Cartoonist

"What's really important is to simplify. The work of most photographers would be improved immensely if they could do one thing: get rid of the extraneous. If you strive for simplicity, you are more likely to reach the viewer"

William Albert Allard, Photographer

"To me, theater is the mecca; if you really love to act, that's where it's the most fun, by a long shot"

Scott Caan, Actor

"It is generally admitted that the most beautiful qualities of a color are in its transparent state, applied over a white ground with the light shining through the color"

Maxfield Parrish, Artist

"The best part about being a stand-up is the connection with the audience. There's nothing more gratifying then when you can make 300 people applaud and stand up - because that's all you"

Aries Spears, Actor

"I think Chappelle set the bar when he came out with his show. To be as great as him or greater you have to push it a little further - as long as there's substance in terms of the material"

Aries Spears, Actor

"I played Liddy Dole last year and met her as well. From the artful way she phrased it, I still don't know if she had actually seen me play her. She made it sound like it was good, but that's just a gift they have"

Ana Gasteyer, Comedian

"A totally healthy actor is a paradox"

Vittorio Gassman, Actor

"This new art made a deep impression on me, and I began to study it ardently"

Ruggero Leoncavallo, Composer

"I used to find great difficulty in drawing feet"

Ida Rentoul Outhwaite, Artist

"All the world is competent to judge my pictures except those who are of my profession"

William Hogarth, Artist

"Individually, museums are fine institutions, dedicated to the high values of preservation, education and truth; collectively, their growth in numbers points to the imaginative death of this country"

Robert Hewison, Historian

"When I have had such men before my camera, my whole soul has endeavored to do its duty towards them in recording faithfully the greatness of the inner as well as the features of the outer man. The photograph thus taken has been almost the embodiment of a prayer"

Julia Margaret Cameron, Photographer

"I'm a very restless person. I'm always doing something. The creative process never stops"

Oscar de la Renta, Designer

"I was always a visual person. I could see things visually. I had a harder time with numbers and logic, and I always had more of an artistic sensibility. So that I could do. And it was something that I really loved"

Bruce Davison, Actor

"A good actor is somebody who can be truthful and fascinating and interesting and enlightening"

Bruce Davison, Actor

"Fantasy is the only canvas large enough for me to paint on"

Terry Brooks, Writer

"The problem turned out to be that I never was that kind of an artist"

Todd Rundgren, Musician

"I knew early on, after the first couple episodes were fully scored and animated, that we had a real quality show here. But I always questioned whether or not it would work"

Steve Burns, Actor

"You draw on your own childhood every time you tee it up as an actor"

Ron Perlman, Actor

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