Arts, Media & Entertainment: Art Quotes

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"I love fashion. I always have. When I was a kid, I was in almost full-on costumes when I went to school, and I've retained a bit of that in my adulthood"

Lake Bell, Actress

"The external appearance of any construction projects that are created during the time of the National Socialist Reich must take on the sensibility of our time"

Fritz Todt, Soldier

"It takes two years on the stage for an actor or an actress to learn how to speak correctly and to manage his voice properly, and it takes about ten years to master the subtle art of being able to hold one's audience"

D. W. Griffith, Director

"Unquestionably, standup comedy is and has always been an art form"

Shelley Berman, Comedian

"Without black, no color has any depth. But if you mix black with everything, suddenly there's shadow - no, not just shadow, but fullness. You've got to be willing to mix black into your palette if you want to create something that's real"

Amy Grant, Musician

"The sizes and shapes of the panels have never been important to my stories. It has always been the words and images that drew me in, kind of like watching a movie"

Jaime Hernandez, Artist

"Half of me is very excited and the other half is 'Haven't we seen this stuff before?' But I'm very impressed. I almost couldn't picture it when it was being put together. I couldn't picture it being in my hand, what it would look like"

Jaime Hernandez, Artist

"Every time I copy something, I can draw it for the rest of my life. But research is so painful - I mean just opening up a magazine looking for a picture of a car or looking out the window looking for a car is just hard!"

Jaime Hernandez, Artist

"When I draw a character, very often as I'm doing a face, my face mirrors the expression"

Matthew Ashford, Actor

"Admittedly, it is really our duty, as artists, to hold up a mirror to our own era; but, on the other hand, these works have lives of their own, and they're still alive today"

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Musician

"Well, I get my subject on Wednesday night; I think it out carefully on Thursday, and make my rough sketch; on Friday morning I begin, and stick to it all day, with my nose well down on the block"

John Tenniel, Artist

"The fact that I have been successful merely means that I can write and illustrate in my own way"

Hugh Lofting, Author

"You can't do a machine without knowing something about how it's going to work. As for the romantics, the costumes bored me and I don't enjoy doing period clothes"

Boris Vallejo, Artist

"Suddenly we saw that you could do plays about real life, and people had been doing them for some time, but they weren't always getting to the audiences. They were performed in little, tiny, theatres"

Timothy West, Actor

"You know you can get gaudy with something, and they didn't do that. To me, I think it's very tasteful, well done, with the silver and gold and the engraving. I think it's very tasteful"

Earl Scruggs, Musician

"When it's working, what acting is really about is getting into the essence of a moment in a creative, joyous way - through whatever frees you up"

Lili Taylor, Actress

"Any idealism is a proper subject for art"

Lafcadio Hearn, Author

"A proof of really great art is that it is generally true - it seldom falls into the misapprehensions to which minor art is liable"

Lafcadio Hearn, Author

"It's only at this age that I can say the word 'art' without flinching"

Mira Nair, Director

"To me art is a form of manifest revolt, total and complete"

Jean Tinguely, Sculptor

"Perhaps... I mean, there are people who defend that it as an art. I don't. I like it, but it's not an art form as far as I'm concerned, and yet it's a similar thing, once you can't land those jumps, you're disqualified - that precludes it from ever becoming a serious art form"

Mark Morris, Dancer

"I love the way in which I make up dances. It's a complicated way and the product is usually clear. Clear and simple. I don't need everybody to know that there are all of these fabulous things going on. If you CAN see it, that's wonderful"

Mark Morris, Dancer

"There are wonderful museums with lots of photographs of 1920s musicals"

Julie Harris, Actress

"I wish my work would be recognized by a larger crowd of people as more art than be stuck with the cartoonist label for the rest of my life"

Julie Doucet, Artist

"Acting for me is not a bad habit like smoking that I must make an effort to quit. I love acting; I love directing"

Joan Chen, Actress

"I always saw myself as a multi media artist"

Holly Johnson, Musician

"You have to know how to use the accident, how to recognise it, how to control it, and ways to eliminate it so that the whole surface looks felt and born all at once"

Helen Frankenthaler, Artist

"The landscapes were in my arms as I did it"

Helen Frankenthaler, Artist

"Art is more godlike than science. Science discovers; art creates"

John Opie, Artist

"I went on tour in the play H.M.S. Pinafore"

Dominic Chianese, Actor

"What I do is create images, period"

Frank Frazetta, Artist

"I'm a performer, comedian, entertainer, writer and director"

William Shatner, Actor

"If you start to disrespect the character you're playing, or play it too much for laughs, that can work for a sketch, it will sell some gags, but it's all technique. It's like watching a juggler - you can be impressed by it, but it's not going to touch you in any way"

Steve Coogan, Comedian

"I did theater when I was nine, I think. Nine and ten, and that was just the beginning of my whole involvement in acting, my whole interest. I don't really remember it that well. But it was really fun. I mean, it was exciting just to be on stage in front of an audience. It gives you a different kind of rush"

Amanda Seyfried, Actress

"I'm trying to eliminate every vestige of my own personality, style, approach and get into somebody else's skin. Sometimes I feel I've accomplished it. But when I don't, I'm nobody at all, having left myself at home"

Judy Holliday, Actress

"I think that most artists are leaning towards fragile idiots"

Josh Silver, Musician

"By means of tracing-paper I transfer my design to the wood and draw on that"

John Tenniel, Artist

"I had the idea for the show, like a year and a half, two years ago. And it was all about the things that I didn't like about TV. I was trying to create a positive solution for it. And it actually worked"

Genevieve Gorder, Designer

"I don't know why a computer game can't be an art form just as a puppet show or an opera is. I'm still interested in computer games as something I would like to work on someday"

Fred Saberhagen, Author

"Everyone wants immediate success, immediate celebrity, and that doesn't produce what used to be artists"

Colin R. Davis

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