Arts, Media & Entertainment: Art Quotes

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"The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark"

Agnes de Mille, Dancer

"Painting is not for me either decorative amusement or the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation"

Max Ernst, Artist

"All good ideas arrive by chance"

Max Ernst, Artist

"My first concern was to take care of my drawing. I did not have any knowledge in arts, especially Haitian arts, apart from the paintings I saw in my father's office"

Ralph Allen, Politician

"The painting develops before my eyes, unfolding its surprises as it progresses. It is this which gives me the sense of complete liberty, and for this reason I am incapable of forming a plan or making a sketch beforehand"

Yves Tanguy, Artist

"I believe there is little to gain by exchanging opinions with other artists concerning either the ideology of art or technical methods"

Yves Tanguy, Artist

"It is hard to describe the thrill of creative joy which the artist feels when the conviction seizes her that at last she has caught the very soul of the character she wishes to portray, in the music and action which reveal it"

Maria Jeritza

"There just doesn't seem to be a market for something with aspiration anymore"

Tom Courtenay, Actor

"If ever I feel I might be able to tackle it, I'd love to try holding a spear or something in the theater, or opening a door, or anything, just to try it, you know, because it must be some marvelous magic thing"

Hayley Mills, Actress

"And yet, what is Modernism? It is undefined"

John C. Ransom, Writer

"Videogames are a little more work and they're a little more stilted"

Carlos Alazraqui, Actor

"We lived and breathed acting"

David Naughton, Actor

"Charlie Brown is almost a tragic figure"

Brian Walker, Inventor

"From the age of six I wanted to be an artist. At that point I meant a painter, but it turned out what I really meant was I was someone who was very interested in watching the world and making copies of it"

Reynolds Price, Novelist

"Maimed but still magnificent... Europe's mightiest medieval cathedral"

R. W. Apple, Jr., Journalist

"The hard part is how to plan a picture so as to give to others what has happened to you. To render in paint an experience, to suggest the sense of light and color, of air and space"

Maxfield Parrish, Artist

"I don't know what people find or like in me, I'm hopelessly commonplace! Current appreciation of my work is a bit highbrow, I've always considered myself a popular artist"

Maxfield Parrish, Artist

"I don't think you should categorize yourself as an artist"

Laura Nyro, Musician

"Did you know I staged the first performance in America of At the Hawk's Well?"

Kenneth Rexroth, Poet

"I think every actor should go back and do theater periodically"

Chad Lowe, Actor

"Acting is not that far from mental disease: An actor works on splitting his character into others. It is like a kind of schizophrenia"

Vittorio Gassman, Actor

"Inspiration is an awakening, a quickening of all man's faculties, and it is manifested in all high artistic achievements"

Giacomo Puccini, Composer

"Videos are more like photography. It's not as much about trying to tell a story as it is creating images"

Tatyana Ali, Actress

"I would just stand there puzzled, then realize this would be a great place to make a show"

Tommy Tune, Dancer

"I took individual photographs of Annie Liebovitz, I kept taking her picture"

Shirley Knight, Actress

"And, uh, I've got about six thousand cartoons up there, also books and papers"

Rube Goldberg, Cartoonist

"Characterization is integral to the theatrical experience"

Robert Ludlum, Novelist

"I just create, that's what I do"

Patti LuPone, Musician

"I'd want to read the stories that I'd written, I'd want to show the drawings that I made. That was just purely natural. So I knew I wanted to go into the arts in some way and that I'd want to show that work in some way"

P. J. Harvey, Musician

"An interesting thing happened in 1989, right as I was graduating: the stock market crashed and really changed the landscape of the art world in New York. It made the kind of work I was doing interesting to galleries that wouldn't have normally been interested in it"

Matthew Barney, Artist

"I have a need to make these sorts of connections literal sometimes, and a vehicle often helps to do that. I have a relationship to car culture. It isn't really about loving cars. It's sort of about needing them"

Matthew Barney, Artist

"Even a true artist does not always produce art"

Carroll O'Connor, Actor

"Painters were also attorneys, happy storytellers of anecdote, psychologists, botanists, zoologists, archaeologists, engineers, but there were no creative painters"

Kazimir Malevich, Artist

"When the business starts shaping the art, or the delivery of the art, then it's not right"

Bob Mould, Musician

"The best actors, I think, have a childlike quality. They have a sort of an ability to lose themselves. There's still some silliness"

Kenneth Branagh, Actor

"I want to explore more sides of humanity and myself. That's what acting is about"

Noomi Rapace, Actress

"Any work of art that can be understood is the product of journalism"

Tristan Tzara, Artist

"Acting is real important to me. I love it, and it's something I care about"

Joaquin Phoenix, Actor

"I haven't appeared on stage in quite a long time, and I don't have any immediate plans to do so, but I'm always interested in going back"

Fred Melamed, Actor

"The first twenty shows at TV 23 were really a workshop"

Joel Hodgson, Entertainer

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