Arts, Media & Entertainment: Art Quotes

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"I've put in as many as 40 weeks a year on stage. It is lonely and restricted, as all artistic life must necessarily be"

Lillie Langtry, Actress

"The success of any stand-up act comes out of life experience"

Howie Mandel, Comedian

"The skills that we have are the actual magic skills - not the performing skills. We have to separate those. But the actual skills that make the tricks work, we don't get to use again"

Penn Jillette, Entertainer

"Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters"

Jack Levine, Artist

"I played Hamlet, I played Chekhov and Ibsen and all the classics"

Harvey Korman, Actor

"Ice dance should not be seen as a rigid conformist form of figure skating. There is a great deal of freedom and originality to be had"

Robin Cousins, Athlete

"Art is 110 percent sweat"

Robert Riskin, Playwright

"It is our art that has an opportunity to leave a footprint in the sand. They don't wrap fish in our work"

Hugh Newell Jacobsen, Architect

"Art is uncompromising and life is full of compromises"

Gunther Grass, Author

"Acting is something I love to do. I love to perform and I love the art, the craft of it"

Jill Bennett, Actress

"Oh, God, I would love to go and do a play someplace"

Erika Slezak, Actress

"When you go to the theater, if you're really involved in the play, you don't think about it - you're in it"

William Kraft, Musician

"A lot of our entertainment throws into detail the stagnation and illness of how we live today-it's sad and it's sick... and it's profitable"

Heather Donahue, Actress

"When I first started editing GQ, it gave the impression of being, and in fact was, a gay magazine. There were female models in it and there were women on the cover, but the boys were always much, much more beautiful than the girls"

Art Cooper

"Daytime has been successful all these years because it caters to a very real need in the audience - to see something that's not nighttime fantasy. People watch daytime because it's like their lives"

Erika Slezak, Actress

"Acting doesn't bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from it"

Elaine Dundy, Novelist

"I always said God was against art and I still believe it"

Edward Elgar, Composer

"Vivid images are like a beautiful melody that speaks to you on an emotional level. It bypasses your logic centers and even your intellect and goes to a different part of the brain"

Steven Bochco, Producer

"And certainly the history of public sculpture has been disastrous, but that doesn't mean it ought not to continue, and the only way it even has a chance to continue is if the work gets out into the public"

Richard Serra, Sculptor

"You know, working as an actor, I'm always working within my own imagination"

Charles Keating, Lawyer

"I've always seen myself as one of those 'show people.' My earliest memories are wanting and needing to entertain people, like a gypsy traveler who goes from place to place, city to city, performing for audiences and reaching people"

Brittany Murphy, Actress

"We constantly run lines together before every show too, and then there's a long, traditionally long, story to tell the audience every show. Today, we're doing it twice"

Bill Irwin, Entertainer

"Back in the 60s, San Francisco artists lived in communes"

Gedde Watanabe, Actor

"Each of the Arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a Muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them"

Eliza Farnham, Activist

"Actors should be timeless and impersonal"

Anne Parillaud, Actress

"Acting is constant exploration"

Paul Guilfoyle, Actor

"It never became an act in the sense of an act, it was always, no matter where we worked, little revues"

Adolph Green, Playwright

"I had met a young lady who wanted to be in the theater. It was Judy Holliday. She had somehow fallen down the steps of the Village Vanguard, which still exists today"

Adolph Green, Playwright

"I went to a Catholic high school and it seemed like every time I drew something for a class project, it either got thrown away by the teacher or something"

Mike Judge, Producer

"My true function within a society which embraces all of us is to continue an age-old tradition. This tradition is to create images from the depths of the imagination and to give them form, whether visual, intellectual or musical"

Michael Tippett, Composer

"If I think something is beautiful, there must be somebody out there who will agree with me"

William Kraft, Musician

"In order to represent life on the stage, we must rub elbows with life, live ourselves"

Marie Dressler, Actress

"I feel that I communicate best when I am not deliberately being linear. Along this same line, I feel some of the best sermons I've ever heard were in the theatre rather than the pulpit - as, for example, in the Theatre of the Absurd"

Malcolm Boyd, Clergyman

"Well, I have since seen you at Tinkle. It's a comedy show started by David Cross, me and Jon Benjamin. It features a wide variety of acts for all tastes and seasons"

Todd Barry, Comedian

"It would have been the equivalent of Jackson Pollock's attempts to copy the Sistine Chapel"

Malcolm Cowley, Critic

"The simple tableau is so rich with meaning that whether represented on the mantelpiece or in the mind, it seems suspended, complete unto itself, somewhere in eternity"

Lucinda Franks, Journalist

"I like a show to unfold and keep presenting itself, surprising you"

Tommy Tune, Dancer

"The mask of the character was already written into the show, but I actually lobbied for a denser and more complete mask than they initially considered"

Rene Auberjonois, Actor

"I would hardly call myself an artist in that sense; I doodle, I draw, I'm not a trained artist, I couldn't sit down and do an accurate portrait of anyone"

Rene Auberjonois, Actor

"At this point we've answered about every question you could possibly imagine about Deep Space Nine, so we do this thing called Theatrical Jazz, where we do a show of bits and pieces of things from plays and literature, poetry... stuff that we like. It's fun"

Rene Auberjonois, Actor

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