Arts, Media & Entertainment: Art Quotes

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"I hope that my painting has the impact of giving someone, as it did me, the feeling of his own totality, of his own separateness, of his own individuality"

Barnett Newman, Artist

"Words and pictures can work together to communicate more powerfully than either alone"

William Albert Allard, Photographer

"I think the best pictures are often on the edges of any situation, I don't find photographing the situation nearly as interesting as photographing the edges"

William Albert Allard, Photographer

"I am convinced that in the arts, committees are useless"

Walter Legge, Businessman

"I use colors to bring fine points of story and character"

Vincente Minnelli, Director

"I always liked the Van Gogh story because I was terribly involved in that"

Vincente Minnelli, Director

"Cedric Gibbons was the grand cardinal of the art department"

Vincente Minnelli, Director

"But surrealism is present in most of my pictures"

Vincente Minnelli, Director

"Acting is all about truth and honesty, and the sensitivity that's capable of transporting you"

Thomas Kretschmann, Actor

"I don't think I'm particularly sexual, no more than anyone else, though I am very creative"

Rhona Mitra, Actress

"Fashion is more about feel than science"

Pharrell Williams, Musician

"I've always had an obligation to creation, above all"

Nick Cave, Musician

"Art, well, good art at least, takes you to a place you go during the experience of it, and then, after you experience it, you are different"

Nile Rodgers, Musician

"Art is something that opens up and enhances your emotions, and that's what I like to think I'm doing"

Nile Rodgers, Musician

"I never consciously said, 'I want to be an actor.' It sounds stupid, but it's kind of like being a painter or something. You don't say, 'From today on I'm going to be a painter.' It's not something conscious - you've just been painting pictures all your life"

Franka Potente, Actress

"I do house things. I paint. I do portraits. I also paint my house"

Willa Ford, Musician

"I paint to evoke a changing language of symbols, a language with which to remark upon the qualities of our mysterious capacities which direct us toward ultimate reality"

Morris Graves, Artist

"A nice blend of prediction and surprise seem to be at the heart of the best art"

Wendy Carlos, Musician

"I was always in plays at school and in school concerts - you could say I liked to show off"

George Cole, Actor

"Remember, the great adversity of art, or anything else, is a hurried life"

Robert James Waller, Writer

"The primary function of a theater is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve talent"

Robert Brustein, Educator

"You get used to it when you feel like you're an artist"

Pharrell Williams, Musician

"One of the primary motivations for the series is that I never really felt that I was a person who could explain verbally what I thought all that well"

Lev Yilmaz, Artist

"The whole tone now of TV is under 35 and directed toward males"

Sharon Gless, Actress

"To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist"

Robert Schumann, Composer

"Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm"

Robert Schumann, Composer

"Art is a kind of illness"

Giacomo Puccini, Composer

"Sex in a dance is in the eyes of the beholder. I never thought my dances sexy. I suppose that's because I see myself with my face washed, and to me I look like a rabbit"

Gwen Verdon, Dancer

"I have generally found that persons who had studied painting least were the best judges of it"

William Hogarth, Artist

"We're improvising a lot of this, which amazes people"

Tom Bergeron, Celebrity

"Thank you for allowing me to use colors as rich and deep as you please. I had always wanted to do so, yet was never allowed because of the color capabilities of our lithographers. Now that I have done it, I don't think I'll ever go back"

Maxfield Parrish, Artist

"But I have fun with the fright, work with it. You have to - that's your timing, that beat of excitement. And when I go on stage, it's just like taking a step into heaven. Poof, you know? Poof - and there I am"

Eddie Bracken, Actor

"I love coloring books. I keep some by my bed"

Karen Black, Actress

"We knew that we were kind of odd and creeps, and we wanted to do odd, creepy stuff for people who wanted to see that"

Penn Jillette, Entertainer

"One of the things that Teller and I are obsessed with, one of the reasons that we're in magic, is the difference between fantasy and reality"

Penn Jillette, Entertainer

"Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist"

Agnes Varda, Director

"The artist finds that the more he can confine his attention to a particular part of any work, his productions are the more perfect, and grow under his hands in the greater quantities"

Adam Ferguson, Philosopher

"It couldn't sound like a dog, because K9 isn't a dog, but I made it sound as mechanical as possible"

John Leeson, Actor

"When I was in art college, I would be painting, and I would create something on a canvas that was actually quite attractive. But if I got frightened and tried to protect that, that canvas would die"

Michael Ironside, Actor

"I prefer theatre, but TV keeps you well known"

Richard Briers, Actor

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