Arts, Media & Entertainment: Art Quotes

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"I don't paint to live, I live to paint"

Willem de Kooning, Artist

"For me, the most important thing I learned was just honing my eye. I think I had a good eye"

Herb Ritts, Photographer

"My company is known for being funny as well as moving. You get a bit of everything in these shows. I think people know they're going to have a surprising experience"

Matthew Bourne, Dancer

"If I hadn't started painting, I would have raised chickens"

Grandma Moses, Artist

"But mathematics is the sister, as well as the servant, of the arts and is touched by the same madness and genius"

Marston Morse, Mathematician

"Find beauty not only in the thing itself, but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and dark which that thing provides"

Junichiro Tanizaki, Author

"Art, that great undogmatized church"

Ellen Key, Writer

"To become truly immortal, a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken, it will enter the realms of childhood visions and dreams"

Giorgio de Chirico, Artist

"In reality, art is always for everyone and for no one"

Eugenio Montale, Poet

"In the theatre the audience wants to be surprised - but by things that they expect"

Tristan Bernard, Playwright

"The actor creates with his own flesh and blood all those things which all the arts try in some way to describe"

Lee Strasberg, Director

"An actor is a sculptor who carves in snow"

Lawrence Barrett, Actor

"Acting is not being emotional, but being able to express emotion"

Robert Quillen, Journalist

"The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word"

Mata Hari, Dancer

"The greatest value of a picture is when it forces us to notice what we never expected to see"

John Tuley

"It is not accidental that our greatest art is intimate and not monumental"

Max Webber

"For me, each nuance of a color is in some way an individual, a being who is not only from the same race as the base color, but who definitely possesses a distinct character and personal soul"

Yves Klein, Artist

"One tries to be an observer as an actor, and indeed as a director, because the small things, the give-away things, are what are really interesting to a performer"

Janet Suzman, Actress

"I have seized the light. I have arrested its flight"

Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre, Artist

"It is conventional to call "monster" any blending of dissonant elements. I call "monster" every original inexhaustible beauty"

Alfred Jarry, Writer

"If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn't need to lug around a camera"

Lewis Hine, Photographer

"Talent does whatever it wants to do. Genius does only what it can"

Eugene Delacroix, Artist

"Art for art's sake, money for God's sake"

Simon Raven, Novelist

"Remember that a painting - before it is a battle horse, a nude model, or some anecdote - is essentially a flat surface covered with colours assembled in a certain order"

Maurice Denis, Artist

"Form follows function"

Louis Sullivan, Architect

"It is the function of creative man to perceive and to connect the seemingly unconnected"

William Plomer, Writer

"Sexy in India is not considered positive. But with today's crop of fresh faces in the modelling arena, being sexy is an asset"

Aishwarya Rai, Actress

"The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener"

George Balanchine, Dancer

"Even in modern art, artists have used methods based on calculation, inasmuch as these elements, alongside those of a more personal and emotional nature, give balance and harmony to any work of art"

Max Bill, Architect

"Every great inspiration is but an experiment"

Charles Ives, Composer

"Acting is a way of living out one's insanity"

Isabelle Huppert, Actress

"Some people would say my paintings show a future world and maybe they do, but I paint from reality. I put several things and ideas together, and perhaps, when I have finished, it could show the future"

H. R. Giger, Artist

"Animation is not the art of drawings that move but the art of movements that are drawn"

Norman McLaren, Artist

"So, in other words, how you respond to a sculpture, how a viewer sees the sculpture, is vital"

Anthony Caro, Sculptor

"Images have a unique power to impart that which is beyond words"

William Shirley, Politician

"It's really easy to get colors right. It's really hard to get black - and neutrals - right. Black is certainly a color, but it's also an illusion"

Donna Karan, Designer

"But out of limitations comes creativity"

Debbie Allen, Actress

"Photography helps people to see"

Berenice Abbott, Photographer

"When I don't have any ideas, I pick up fabric and start working with it, and something happens"

Geoffrey Beene, Designer

"Art is the proper task of life"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

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