Arts, Media & Entertainment: Art Quotes

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"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

"I play music, I paint - these things come from your depths"

John Lurie, Actor

"I drew a picture on the back of a calendar in pencil. In those days, they used to give out free calendars, I had no art paper, so I took whatever else I could"

Joe Shuster, Artist

"I was blown away by being able to color. Then I started to draw... Bringing a blank white canvas to life was fascinating"

James De La Vega, Artist

"The relentless pressures of the so-called marketplace have distorted all our culture industries"

Mark Crispin Miller, Journalist

"I defied nothing at all. I ignored the law because I didn't know it existed. It didn't occur to me that anyone would want to curb my inspiration"

Margaret Anderson, Editor

"I liked the way my character, Shane, was first introduced. You get introduced to her through this sexual action, and I thought that was so cool and just kind of summed up what she enjoys and who she is, to a certain extent. She's a complete sexual being and the great thing is that she doesn't apologize for it. It's just who she is. We rarely see women be able to do that on television"

Katherine Moennig, Actress

"Whatever the medium, there is the difficulty, challenge, fascination and often productive clumsiness of learning a new method: the wonderful puzzles and problems of translating with new materials"

Helen Frankenthaler, Artist

"French design hardly exists, except as artificial modernism"

Christian Lacroix, Designer

"When we distributed the paper and crayons, they were fighting over the blue crayon. Everyone wanted to start with the blue, and that was the water. One drawing shows the trees under water. I was really moved"

Connie Sellecca, Actress

"We do not judge great art. It judges us"

Caroline Gordon, Writer

"When I first drew him, I had eyes in there and it didn't look right"

Bob Kane, Artist

"The New Look of Batman is more illustrative and realistic"

Bob Kane, Artist

"It took them a while to catch on that Batman would be the greatest"

Bob Kane, Artist

"I intend to explode the myths about myself and get down to the real truth about the legend that is Batman"

Bob Kane, Artist

"Almost every scene, I re-think as I'm about to start drawing it, and at least half of the time I'm changing dialogue or whatever, or adding scenes or different things"

Chester Brown, Cartoonist

"I'd like to work on putting art programs back in schools"

Chaka Khan, Musician

"I think if you're an actor, then you can work on stage - but if you've never done it before, you're going to have picked up a few things that you're going to need to change when you're working on stage"

Dominic Monaghan, Actor

"I'll tell you what I miss most. What I would love to do, more than anything, is just anthologies. With an anthology you can tell any story and be in every division of television. We don't have any anthologies anymore, do we?"

Aaron Spelling, Producer

"Parody is homage gone sour"

Brendan Gill, Critic

"With the art therapy, as soon as they saw the paper and crayons coming, we couldn't get it out fast enough. And we told them to draw about the tsunami"

Connie Sellecca, Actress

"But it's a Broadway show, so even if you're Christine in Phantom, you're still a princess. All female leads are princesses whether they're Disney princesses or not"

Christy Romano, Actress

"I think the thinking is, in the comic books, I should pack as much onto a page as possible, because, you know, it's kind of the cheaper format, and you want to give readers as much as you can for their dollar"

Chester Brown, Cartoonist

"The gays like 'Project Runway' because it's a fashion, and the gays are into fashion and into design. It's a creative industry, and most of the gays are pretty creative, in general. That's just like the culture. We're not all into politics necessarily. We're more into the creative environment. I also think Heidi is a big draw. The boys love Heidi and think she's so fabulous. I just think it's a glitzy, fun show, and there are also always lots of gay boys on it, and, you know, that's fun"

Christian Siriano, Designer

"Dancing is my number one love. That was my first goal as a child. I would love to do stage, maybe do Chicago. I love being in front of an audience. It's so stimulating. I also love to barbecue"

Carmen Electra, Actress

"The one thing I learned the most about acting is it takes a tremendous amount of courage to go there and stand still. It takes courage and guts to step out of your mind frame and depict something"

Carson Daly, Entertainer

"Also, minimalism is a term that all of us, who share so little in common and who are lumped together as minimalists, are not terribly happy with"

Ann Beattie, Writer

"The one thing about program television that's absolutely incompatible with any concept of art is that all decisions have to be made by program directors, whereas art is autonomous. It may be dependent, but it knows no superiors"

Alexander Kluge, Director

"I don't pay attention to target audiences and therefore I often hear that I am a ratings killer, somebody who fundamentally doesn't care whether one person is watching or an entire soccer stadium"

Alexander Kluge, Director

"I prefer that for my own satisfaction over radio, there's no audience. TV, there's no audience. I need the response of the audience, even if it's a silent response"

Al Lewis, Actor

"Of late years (perhaps as a result of our political changes), art has borrowed from history more than ever"

Alfred de Vigny, Poet

"I think actors are privileged. Acting feeds you"

Alan Bates, Actor

"I've been onstage once for one performance with four days' rehearsal"

Anna Friel, Actress

"Painting is the aesthetic side of the object, but it has never been original, has never been its own goal"

Kazimir Malevich, Artist

"You must try to match your colors as nearly as you can to those you see before you, and you must study the effects of light and shade on nature's own hues and tints"

William Merritt Chase, Artist

"Don't make art for other artists or for 'intellectuals', make art for people - and if you can touch just one person in a lifetime and make a difference - you have succeeded"

Ray Conniff, Musician

"I remember having to take detours around the Hollywood sign to avoid having to see this grotesque poster of myself on Sunset Boulevard"

Rachel Ward, Actress

"When I was a teenager, I loved acting, but I really just loved it for myself. I didn't like the fact that anyone else saw the work I was doing"

Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Actor

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