Arts, Media & Entertainment: Art Quotes

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"The anarchist painter is not the one who will create anarchist pictures, but the one who will fight with all his individuality against official conventions"

Paul Signac, Artist

"Your audience gives you everything you need. They tell you. There is no director who can direct you like an audience"

Fanny Brice, Comedian

"I've often talked about that, and I've been asked that a couple of times, and my feeling are that if you have a good show, a bad host will not even hurt the show"

Wink Martindale, Entertainer

"Now painting is different. It's something recollected in tranquility"

Jack Levine, Artist

"It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall"

Jack Levine, Artist

"If it is the mark of the artist to love art before everything, to renounce everything for its sake, to think all the sweet human things of life well lost if only he may attain something, do some good, great work - then I was never an artist"

Ellen Terry, Actress

Rudolf Bing, Musician

"Art is the objectification of feeling, and the subjectification of nature"

Susanne Langer, Philosopher

"Through that, I got to know Jerry's work, and I am definitely his number-one fan right now, which is interesting because it usually works the other way around: you usually create a project based on your hero"

Sean Hayes, Actor

"I mean, I don't necessarily want to leave because I have this job, but I would love to do a good play"

Erika Slezak, Actress

"Martial art is a form of expression, an expression from your inner self to your hands and legs"

Donnie Yen, Actor

"We're doing a workshop over the first two weeks of December, I believe, with Graciella Daniele directing it"

Cy Coleman, Composer

"Is there a sharper commentary on American culture and the world than The Simpsons?"

Anthony Bourdain, Author

"As a student in London, I had seen so many shows, so many plays and had seen so many greats of the day"

David Naughton, Actor

"There are countless artists whose shoes I am not worthy to polish - whose prints would not pay the printer. The question of judgment is a puzzling one"

Maxfield Parrish, Artist

"But life is tough, and if you're creative, it's tougher"

Bobby Short, Musician

"Doing Shakespeare in the Park has always been a dream. Everyone else says Hamlet, but I want to play Romeo"

Aaron Yoo, Actor

"Talent works, genius creates"

Robert Schumann, Composer

"There is always an audience for different individuals, but critics sometimes stop the audience finding the show and the show finding the audience"

Richard O'Brien, Actor

"Post-modernism is modernism with the optimism taken out"

Robert Hewison, Historian

"The Emmys are flat-out fun"

Melissa Rivers, Actress

"I feel a lot more comfortable on stage in the theatre. It just reminds me of being a kid and doing pantomimes"

Kelly Brook, Model

"I have made it a rule for a long time, not to part with the copyright of my drawings, for I have been so copied, my drawings reproduced and sold for advertisements and done in ways I hate"

Kate Greenaway, Writer

"To say of a picture, as is often said in its praise, that it shows great and earnest labour, is to say that it is incomplete and unfit for view"

James Mcneill Whistler, Painter

"I started out to be a painter and was born into the theater"

Vincente Minnelli, Director

"I love improvisation"

Nora Dunn, Actress

"As an actor, you have to have your history"

Nora Dunn, Actress

"A lot of people feel that there is less artistry involved in cartoon making unless they have painstaking control of each frame"

Lev Yilmaz, Artist

"The church of St. Peter at Berlin, notwithstanding the total difference between them in the style of building, appears in some respects to have a great resemblance to St. Paul's in London"

Karl Philipp Moritz, Author

"I think we've established a convention on the show that allows us to do pretty much anything we want to"

Thayer David, Actor

"There's a great difference between being popular and being an artist"

Shirley Knight, Actress

"That's how I taught myself how to draw - tracing the ads and petting new clothes on the models"

Stephen Sprouse, Designer

"Maybe if they all could he combined - art, rock and fashion. Those were always my favorite things"

Stephen Sprouse, Designer

"If you get it out into the urban field, it's going to be used or misused, but it'll also probably provide a way of people acknowledging what the aesthetic is about, because people have to confront it every day"

Richard Serra, Sculptor

"I think different people have different problems and different relations to the exhibition of their work"

Richard Serra, Sculptor

"In college, I started out doing musicals and Shakespeare"

Ray Liotta, Actor

"I've always worked a bit like a cook in a big restaurant, where you've got lots and lots of things laid out and you go and look into one cauldron and you look into the other and you see what's coming to the boil"

Peter Brook, Producer

"Anybody that goes to the theater, I think we're all misfits, so we ended up on stage or in the audience"

Patti LuPone, Musician

"I was a visual artist primarily and a writer, even from a very young age. I wrote a lot of stories and poetry and... I had a desire to create always. And I always had a desire to show my work"

P. J. Harvey, Musician

"Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty"

Alfred de Vigny, Poet

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