Arts, Media & Entertainment: Art Quotes

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"Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness"

W. Eugene Smith, Photographer

"When all is said and done, monotony may after all be the best condition for creation"

Margaret Sackville, Poet

"Visual storytelling of one kind or another has been around since cavemen were drawing on the walls"

Frank Darabont, Director

"Man needs colour to live; it's just as necessary an element as fire and water"

Fernand Leger, Artist

"Swirls of antique stained glass, blazes of brass, forests of carved wood and waterfalls of crystal combine to make up the city's most fabulously festive interior"

Mimi Sheraton

"We are talking about someone who has lived. It must be honored in every respect. The fictional can take any kind of channel - according to the actor's marriage to the character"

Kate Mulgrew, Actress

"If you're a painter, you're not alone. There's no way to be alone"

Franz Kline, Artist

"You may shelve your Shakespearian plans for the present. I am going to play Peter Pan"

Maude Adams, Actress

"'Design Star' was incredible, and I didn't think it could get any better, and then 'Color Splash' happened"

David Bromstad, Designer

"I think any entertainer just sort of goes along with whatever comes along"

Julie London, Musician

"The artistic taste of the Catholic priests is appalling and I am most anxious to have a Catholic church in which everything is genuine and good, and not tawdry and ostentatious"

Giles Gilbert Scott, Architect

"So much of what we do as artists is a combination of personal experience and imagination, and how that all creeps into your work is not so linear"

Diana Krall, Musician

"What is right? Simply put, it is any assignment in which the photographer has a significant spiritual stake... Spiritually driven work constitutes the core of a photographer's contribution to culture"

William Albert Allard, Photographer

"In my photography, color and composition are inseparable. I see in color"

William Albert Allard, Photographer

"Look. Art knows no prejudice, art knows no boundaries, art doesn't really have judgement in its purest form. So just go, just go"

K. D. Lang, Musician

"To me that's what art is about - when you don't really have any control over your desires to do it"

Noah Taylor, Actor

"Every good picture leaves the painter eager to start again, unsatisfied, inspired by the rich mine in which he is working, hoping for more energy, more vitality, more time - condemned to painting for life"

John French Sloan, Artist

"The whole thing about acting, the draw for me, is the opportunity to do things you don't get to do in real life"

Benjamin Bratt, Actor

"I've never made any picture, good or bad, without paying for it in emotional turmoil"

W. Eugene Smith, Photographer

"The first time I heard of SuicideGirls was when a model from there contacted me to see if I wanted to do a shoot. I can't remember what happened with that, but we didn't end up doing it"

Richard Kern, Photographer

"These are the people who are going to see the pictures in my museum"

Norton Simon, Businessman

"If the picture speaks to me, if it tells me something about myself, then I want it. Then I have to have it"

Norton Simon, Businessman

"I've been on stage since I was 7. That's where I'd rather be than anywhere else. Just because you can do a bunch of things doesn't mean you are a bunch of things. I can act. I can sing. But I am a dancer"

Bebe Neuwirth, Actress

"I don't see my dancing or acting as two separate things. I don't define them separately, so I can't say one has helped the other, it's all the same thing. More than anything, I love being on stage and performing"

Bebe Neuwirth, Actress

"Yes, we're trying some new stuff. Some of it might work. Some of it might not. This, of course, is the nature of episodic television. They can't all be gems"

Marc Cherry, Writer

"My earliest acting memory is making up a play for my mom and dad called The Lonesome Baby. I have no idea what The Lonesome Baby was about. I just remember the title. But I'm sure it was an epic"

Jane Horrocks, Actress

"I'm very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It's the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward. Art should always be an exchange"

Nick Cave, Musician

"Why talk when you can paint?"

Milton Avery, Artist

"The idea is in my head; to put it down is nothing"

Milton Avery, Artist

"Without a good cultural policy, without adequate help, we will always have individualists, shooting stars who are rapidly forgotten or who stop painting for a more profitable occupation"

Ralph Allen, Politician

"I paint according to the moment and the theme. I don't have any prejudice. Life concerns me"

Ralph Allen, Politician

"What I love about being an actress is being able to really look into myself and understand another human being"

Phylicia Rashad, Actress

"As a main ingredient to the show, it has to have truth, represent truth, or else it won't last"

Adolph Green, Playwright

"Don't know about a cabaret act right now, would actually prefer a role in a Broadway musical"

Julia Barr, Actress

"Results are uncertain even among the more experienced photographers"

Matthew Brady, Criminal

"Because of the power of television, I was visible to everybody all over the world. But there are many things in the theater that are more fulfilling and that I look forward to doing more. But really, I love it all: theater, film, television"

Charlotte Rae, Actress

"I never thought of myself in comedy at all... I loved going to the theatre and seeing people wearing beautiful clothes come down the staircase and start to dance"

Imogene Coca, Actress

"When I think of Marilyn Monroe, and achieving her sound, I think of having a rather large bust. I think of her physically and I am just able to create her sound, because her physicality was so much to do with her sound"

Jane Horrocks, Actress

"The philistine provides the best definition of art. Anything that makes him rage is first class"

Louis Dudek, Poet

"Art is anything people do with distinction"

Louis Dudek, Poet

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