Arts, Media & Entertainment: Art Quotes

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"When I grow up, I am going to be a ballerina. I will be in Giselle. It will be so much fun being a ballerina"

Karen Kain, Dancer

"Imagery is like music"

Steven Bochco, Producer

"Casting is sort of like looking at paintings. You don't know what you'll like, but you recognize it when you see it"

Steven Bochco, Producer

"I love to act, and I try to be challenged by what I do"

John Turturro, Actor

"Some days you feel like this is really going well. You can tell. Other days, you're just drawing like a farmer and you don't know why"

Pat Oliphant, Cartoonist

"Color is born of the interpenetration of light and dark"

Sam Francis, Artist

"I didn't have any real art training, but when I was about twelve nad thirteen, another boy and I went to a sign painter's house every Friday night and took lessons"

Rube Goldberg, Cartoonist

"I loved the idea of touching base with an audience"

Jerry Stiller, Comedian

"Mystery Science Theater is really a postmodern show, it's really derived of many influences"

Joel Hodgson, Entertainer

"Somebody said us artists have trouble with success because art is derived from struggle. I disagree with that, because truely doing your art is success, whether you make money from it or not"

Joe Murray, Artist

"It takes more drawing to tell a story in pantomime"

Jim Woodring, Artist

"Alternative cartoonists have to rely on comic book stores to get their stuff in the hands of readers"

Jim Woodring, Artist

"I didn't really think about becoming a professional artist until high school, when I realized that everything else required too much math"

Phil Foglio, Cartoonist

"I think this, I think basically I'm not interested in people following my work or making work like my work"

Richard Serra, Sculptor

"I want to point out to adults that there is a world of good material available to you now in comic form - in this medium - and learn to give it your support because the more you support it, the better the material will be as it comes out"

Will Eisner, Cartoonist

"I'd love to break America, like all artists do. It's a lot of work, but, you know, it's got to be done!"

Rachel Stevens, Musician

"An icon painter starts not with Jesus Christ but by finding earth and rubbing. Now what is earth, what are you rubbing in directing?"

Peter Brook, Producer

"In the Thirties, when I was in New York, I did the first surrealistic ballet in a show of mine"

Vincente Minnelli, Director

"Preserve my artistic creativity and ennoble my artistic fame"

Giacomo Meyerbeer, Composer

"I love art and fashion"

Mena Suvari, Actress

"Failure, and its accompanying misery, is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy"

Montgomery Clift, Actor

"So many cartoonists draw the same year after year. When they find a style, they stick with it. They don't mess with innovation, and they become boring"

Pat Oliphant, Cartoonist

"This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting"

Fernand Leger, Artist

"The Greek sculptor - I don't think he was very different from any of us"

Michael Tippett, Composer

"I always feel more comfortable in chaotic surroundings. I don't know why that is. I think order is dull. There is something about this kind of desire for order, particularly in Anglo Saxon cultures, that drive out this ability for the streets to become a really exotic, amorphous, chaotic, organic place where ideas can, basically, develop"

Malcolm Mclaren, Musician

"As I passed along the side walls of Westminster Abbey, I hardly saw any thing but marble monuments of great admirals, but which were all too much loaded with finery and ornaments, to make on me at least, the intended impression"

Karl Philipp Moritz, Author

"I did theater at Carnegie, and in Pittsburgh and New York"

Laura San Giacomo, Actress

"I still think of myself as a stage actor. When I do film and television I try to implement what I was taught to do in theatre, to try to stretch into characters that are far from myself"

Tony Shalhoub, Actor

"I look at everything in an artistic way"

Tony Curtis, Actor

"But where there is no art show, I would still be painting"

Tony Curtis, Actor

"We're quite into graphics that are simultaneously two- and three-dimensional. But I can't really elaborate any further because it's not something - we haven't really perfected it"

Sean Booth, Musician

"We want a vernacular in art. No mere verbal or formal agreement, or dead level of uniformity, but that comprehensive and harmonizing unity with individual variety which can be developed among people politically and socially free"

Walter Crane, Artist

"The visual information of art history is going to students seamlessly, without the enormous trouble those of us who are older had when we studied art history many years ago"

Robert Nelson, Politician

"It's incredible, but I think a lot of people it shot over their heads 'cause they're used to just getting images and messing around with them, and for us to do something quite so 'designed' was a bit of a shock"

Sean Booth, Musician

"I really love the process with stage of rehearsal, you get to create a character, and you have a beginning, a middle, and an end of story. And in television, you don't"

Sasha Alexander, Actress

"The name Crow was inspired by a number of things. I thought it would be cool to have a robot with sort of a Native American feel to it"

Joel Hodgson, Entertainer

"I've heard that Alfred Hitchcock said that by the time he was ready to shoot a film, he didn't even want to do it any more because he'd already had all of the fun of working it out. It's the same thing with these Frank comics"

Jim Woodring, Artist

"I don't think this show would have come to me 10 years ago. It continues to be this wonderful miracle"

Stephen Collins, Actor

"There was once a time when art history and film were basically the same medium, but art history is frozen in late-19th-century technology that has survived into the early 21st century"

Robert Nelson, Politician

"I believe only in art and failure"

Jane Rule, Author

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