Arts, Media & Entertainment: Art Quotes

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William Allan, Artist

"An artist should remain true. Otherwise his talent, like his stomach, grows fat and stuffy"

Norman Reilly Raine, Screenwriter

"To stand up on the stage is to say to many people: Look at me. How can you do that without speaking the only truth you know? There is no such thing as an uncommitted actor"

Judith Malina

"Characters are an extreme form in Shakespeare's theater"

Michael Tippett, Composer

"I used to go home at night and just shake, because I had no idea that's what acting was gonna be"

Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Actress

"Theater actors like to change character roles. They don't like to always do the same thing"

Marcello Mastroianni, Actor

"We, the artists, make the stuff they sell and they're like ticks on our backs, sucking the life out of us"

Malcolm Wilson, Politician

"Stealing things is a glorious occupations, particularly in the art world"

Malcolm Mclaren, Musician

"We have eyes, and we're looking at stuff all the time, all day long. And I just think that whatever our eyes touch should be beautiful, tasteful, appealing, and important"

Eric Carle, Author

"It's fun playing two roles. The roles provide a wonderful range of emotions. Stuart is childlike and sensitive. Adam is ruthless, outrageous. He's flamboyant. He does the unexpected"

David Canary, Actor

"So, to really execute design in its highest form and making people feel joy, that's a great reward"

Genevieve Gorder, Designer

"You can make an audience see nearly anything, if you yourself believe in it"

Mary Renault, Novelist

"The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in Congress"

Hendrik Willem Van Loon, Journalist

"The long version of the play is actually an easier version to follow. In all of the cut versions, the intense speeches are cut too close together for the audience and the actors"

Kenneth Branagh, Actor

"I try to construct a picture in which shapes, spaces, colors form a set of unique relationships, independent of any subject matter. At the same time I try to capture and translate the excitement and emotion aroused in me by the impact with the original idea"

Milton Avery, Artist

"I don't believe in making pencil sketches and then painting landscape in your studio. You must be right under the sky"

William Merritt Chase, Artist

"Many times I asked myself, 'Who is a painter in your own eyes?'"

Peter Malkin, Public Servant

"I've been attracted to imagery and occasionally I've drawn from it, but I never thought I'd be painting these paintings. I didn't have any desire to. I didn't think there was any reason to"

William Wiley, Soldier

"I don't know what it's like for most actors, but really clearly for myself acting has always been the fulfilment of personal fantasies. It isn't just art, it's about being a person I've always wanted to be, or being in a situation, or being a hero"

Richard Dreyfuss, Actor

"Every artist undresses his subject, whether human or still life. It is his business to find essences in surfaces, and what more attractive and challenging surface than the skin around a soul?"

Richard Corliss, Writer

"Acting is half shame, half glory. Shame at exhibiting yourself, glory when you can forget yourself"

John Gielgud, Actor

"I do not feel any artist can produce great art without putting great personality into it. It is always a piece of you that goes on the screen or the canvass"

Joe Murray, Artist

"Visual ideas combined with technology combined with personal interpretation equals photography. Each must hold its own; if it doesn't, the thing collapses"

Arnold Newman, Photographer

"There are no rules and regulations for perfect composition. If there were, we would be able to put all the information into a computer and would come out with a masterpiece. We know that's impossible. You have to compose by the seat of your pants"

Arnold Newman, Photographer

"Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It Is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world"

Arnold Newman, Photographer

"I have to go someplace where I can soak myself in a creative atmosphere"

Jeff Ament, Musician

"The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate"

Agnes de Mille, Dancer

"I've heard what people are saying, and it's a very weird thing. They're going into a realm where it's somethign that's almost ugly, rather than something that can be so beautiful"

James Haven, Director

"Creativity comes from looking for the unexpected and stepping outside your own experience"

Masaru Ibuka, Businessman

"It's like there are all these languages available, especially in terms of image. Why confine yourself to only English? There's all these languages and possibilities and concepts to speak or communicate with"

William Wiley, Soldier

"I'm just a landscape painter. I look out the window and I see what's going on, and I paint it. While I'm painting it, I also write thoughts about what I see going on out there"

William Wiley, Soldier

"That picture has become a sort of yardstick for everything else I've done"

Robert Hamer, Director

"It's flattering to make a picture which becomes a classic within 10 years; it's not so flattering, however, when people get the impression it's the only picture you've ever made"

Robert Hamer, Director

"I paint to rest from the phenomena of the external world-to pronounce and to make notations of its essences with which to verify the inner eye"

Morris Graves, Artist

"Vary the pace... is one of the foundations of all good acting"

Ellen Terry, Actress

"There's a great deal of child left in me and acting is fun. It's a make believe thing"

David Canary, Actor

"Success breeds volume, and it's just amazing how many young writers, artists, and musicians there are in town"

Steven Curtis Chapman, Musician

"I would hate to be a new artist or writer in town today. But somehow the cream continues to rise. If there's one who's great, he just jumps out of the pack like you can't believe"

Steven Curtis Chapman, Musician

"I was constantly being around artists and Bohemian types"

Spencer Dryden, Musician

"The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm camera"

W. Eugene Smith, Photographer

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