Arts, Media & Entertainment: Art Quotes

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"Imagination! Imagination! I put it first years ago, when I was asked what qualities I thought necessary for success on the stage"

Ellen Terry, Actress

"Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always, I am on the threshold"

W. Eugene Smith, Photographer

"When I and the other young artists were working in comics, our work carried with it a particularly American slant. After all, we were Americans drawing and writing about things that touched us. As it turned out, the early work was, you might say, a comic book version of Jazz"

Joe Simon

"Comic art is just different. It's art on its own terms"

Joe Simon

"On the last day of our five-day work week, we did two performances and we had an audience. It was similar to theatre; we went from beginning to end, and it was very pleasing"

Jean Stapleton, Actress

"It's the most extraordinary and saddest thing, the amount of talent out there not being seen"

Gedde Watanabe, Actor

"If I'm not moved by what happens at the end of this play, then I've completely failed, and so has the play, and so has our production. And if that's the case then there really isn't any reason to want to do it"

Judd Hirsch, Actor

"I just really wanted to do art, except when I was taking those photographs of people, I would make the clothes that I would photograph them in, so I could control the whole thing"

Stephen Sprouse, Designer

"It's definitely the highest rated pre-school show on Cable. It's difficult to mix markets that way in terms of ratings. It's hard to tell, you know, where channel 12, or Public Television, is"

Steve Burns, Actor

"I despise simplicity. It is the negation of all that is beautiful"

Norman Hartnell, Designer

"Good directors say, Here's where the play is. They stand by the heart of the matter. Some of them stand beside it"

Sam Waterston, Actor

"To me that's part of my working day, and I would never refuse a job where I'm under several hours of makeup, because as an actor, I enjoy performing. It's about the creation of the character and the art to me, not about being comfortable and how long it all takes"

Warwick Davis, Actor

"The frightening thought that what you draw may become a building makes for reasoned lines"

Saul Steinberg, Artist

"The artist is an educator of artists of the future who are able to understand and in the process of understanding perform unexpected - the best - evolutions"

Saul Steinberg, Artist

"What we want is to make something that fills utterly the sight and can't be used to make life only bearable"

Sam Francis, Artist

"What becomes fascinating is the way the culture industry doesn't deny it and doesn't try to mitigate it, but tries to sell its products as a way of liberating oneself"

Thomas Frank, Author

"A beautiful woman can be painted as a totem only; not as a woman, but as a Madonna, a queen, a sphinx"

Saul Steinberg, Artist

"Art must unquestionably have a social value; that is, as a potential means of communication, it must be addressed, and in comprehensible terms, to the understanding of mankind"

Rockwell Kent, Artist

"Now, the language that had grown up and formed itself on those principles is what one is dealing with, and the problem is to bring a work of art in that medium into another medium formed on different principles and heard and understood in a different way"

Robert Fitzgerald, Author

"There are just certain realities about our world, and I just happen to be creative within it"

Pam Grier, Actress

"I think you always have to find where the boundary is in relation to the context in order to be able to kind of articulate how you want the space to interact with the viewer"

Richard Serra, Sculptor

"But I'll try to immerse myself in as many of the formal characteristics of site as possible in the landscape"

Richard Serra, Sculptor

"Basically, what you really want to do is try to engage the viewer's body relation to his thinking and walking and looking, without being overly heavy-handed about it"

Richard Serra, Sculptor

"To me, thoughts are fun and art is fun. The strength of our society should not be idle entertainments, but the joy of pursuing ideas"

Philip Kaufman, Director

"The subject must be thought of in terms of the 20th century, of houses he lives in and places he works, in terms of the kind of light the windows in these places let through and by which we see him every day"

Arnold Newman, Photographer

"The theater is a tough place. It's not cushioned the way it is in film and television"

Patti LuPone, Musician

"It seems like there's a lot of people who just do not understand satire. They think it's weird. There's people who just don't understand, you portray something or just explore a character, it means you're condoning it, saying this is the way to live"

Mike Judge, Producer

"Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'"

Barnett Newman, Artist

"The only line that's wrong in Shakespeare is 'holding a mirror up to nature.' You hold a magnifying glass up to nature. As an actor, you just enlarge it enough so that your audience can identify with the situation. If it were a mirror, we would have no art"

Montgomery Clift, Actor

"A lot of my work has to do with not allowing my characters to have an ego in a way that the stomach doesn't have an ego when it's wanting to throw up. It just does it"

Matthew Barney, Artist

"I've always thought of the project as a sort of sexually driven digestive system, that it was a consumer and a producer of matter. And it is desire driven, rather than driven by hunger or anything like that"

Matthew Barney, Artist

"Models are there to look like mannequins, not like real people. Art and illusion are supposed to be fantasy"

Grace Jones, Model

"So many plays with magic in them that would be a terrific invitation to an imaginative animation team"

Kenneth Branagh, Actor

"I think A Midsummer Night's Dream would be terrific because of the transformations that occur. Or The Tempest, things like that. Extraordinary larger than life or supernatural element"

Kenneth Branagh, Actor

"If you've done a brilliant version it becomes something else"

Kenneth Branagh, Actor

"If it's good art, it's good"

Kenneth Branagh, Actor

"There is something magical in seeing what you can do, what texture and tone and colour you can produce merely with a pen point and a bottle of ink"

Ida Rentoul Outhwaite, Artist

"I am inspired by many mediums and use them to express varied aspects of my philosophies and life observations"

Judith Anderson, Actress

"We need it to capture the energy of contemporary life"

John Eaton, Politician

"The artist writes, paints, sings or dances the burden of some idea or feeling off his mind"

Max Nordau, Critic

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