Arts, Media & Entertainment: Art Quotes

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"The early expression of my youth was filled with all the aspects of art"

Felix de Weldon, Sculptor

"I finished my studies in England, I opened my studio in London, and the first one-man exhibit I had on Bond Street, which was opened by the Austrian ambassador"

Felix de Weldon, Sculptor

"If these theatres didn't exist, the tradition of British theatre would cease to exist"

David Soul, Actor

"Talent can be developed, gift is God-given. But artists have both"

Carroll O'Connor, Actor

"The provocation with Holmes is the fact that he's described by Doyle as a man without a heart - all brain... and that's very difficult to play, or even indicate"

Jeremy Brett, Actor

"I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones"

Faye Dunaway, Actress

"Nobody could have imagined the phenomenon that 'Star Trek' became. It's still almost impossible to imagine"

William Shatner, Actor

"One thing that took a while to really adjust to was, you do it for the the art, for the money, for being together and having a good time, but you do it for all those people out there who really care about the show. We are now talking about a show we did over 20 years ago"

Steve Kanaly, Actor

"There is no overacting, only untrue acting"

Stellan Skarsgard, Actor

"That piece has been choreographed so badly so many times. I'm loathe to do it, but I may eventually because it is one of the seminal art works of the twentieth century"

Mark Morris, Dancer

"This funding from the National Endowment for the Arts has been like the Good Housekeeping seal of approval"

Norm Dicks, Politician

"It seems that entertainment is what most excites us and what we value above everything else"

Carroll O'Connor, Actor

"All in the Family was intellectual; it was art"

Carroll O'Connor, Actor

"For anyone who works in front of an audience, there is no thrill quite like that of feeling and hearing the evidence of the audience members' enjoyment. Laughter and applause really are powerful!"

Randy West, Entertainer

"I think art is inherently nonviolent and it actually occupies your mind with creation rather than destruction"

Anthony Kiedis, Musician

"I was a backstage kid. I was in the wings looking out"

Joely Fisher, Actress

"I did theatrical caricatures"

Martin Landau, Actor

"I've always wanted to do theater in Chicago. Chicago is a big theater town-and, in some ways, I think this city is savvier and smarter than New York. Sometimes, I think it's a little too chic to go to theater in New York these days"

Jeffrey Donovan, Actor

"The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business"

John Berryman, Poet

"Those early sketches looked too cartoony; I really wanted to do detailed drawings - I was taking anatomy classes - but unfortunately I wasn't able to do it because of the time element"

Joe Shuster, Artist

"I've been trying to pick up painting, but it's hard"

George Eads, Actor

"In the world of reality, the more beautiful a work of art, the longer, we may be sure, was the time required to make it, and the greater the number of different minds which assisted in its development"

Lafcadio Hearn, Author

"But with period clothes, people know less, so they accept the pretty drawing that I give them"

Julie Harris, Actress

"But boy, right away it is fun to play around with the Paintbox program"

Red Grooms, Sculptor

"We would sift through every inch of what it was that worked, or if it didn't, and wonder what was effective in it, in terms of paint, the subject matter, the size, the drawing"

Helen Frankenthaler, Artist

"A really good picture looks as if it's happened at once. It's an immediate image"

Helen Frankenthaler, Artist

"I like the idea of the artist going out in the world, creating a dialogue"

James De La Vega, Artist

"Actually, I don't think there's anyone that represents the artists, except the artists themselves"

Isaac Hanson, Musician

"It was a lot of fun being a child actress. It suited me. I don't think it suits everybody, but I was in it because I had a passion, not because my parents wanted me to make money. If other kids want to do it, and they really like acting, go for it!"

Alanna Ubach, Actress

"Design can have such a positive impact on the way people live and on their relationships and moods"

Genevieve Gorder, Designer

"I spent 10 years in New York doing theater"

Kristen Johnston, Actress

"The recognition of the art that informs all pure science need not mean the abandonment for it of all present art, rather it will mean the completion of the transformation of art that has already begun"

John Desmond Bernal, Scientist

"What I ended up doing was becoming an actor who didn't mind doing other people's words"

Gregory Harrison, Actor

"I have to own something before I can say it, and I have to own it before I can sing it as well, emotionally. I only enjoy acting and singing if I am believing what I am doing"

Gregory Harrison, Actor

"Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture, for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama"

J. M. Roberts, Historian

"This bored fantastic woman, with her animal nature, giving herself the pleasure of seeing her enemy struck down, not a particularly keen one for her because she is so weary of having all her desires satisfied"

Gustave Moreau, Artist

"By the time I was a teenager, I knew I wanted to be an artist. I was a born draftsman and liked all forms of art, so I just knew that's what I wanted to do"

Frank Frazetta, Artist

"There's this idea that it has to be made in London. But we've got everything up here, and if you've got comics who are gifted because of where they're from, you shouldn't drag them away from that natural resource"

Johnny Vegas, Comedian

"I think taking design out of the studio and really having a relationship with the people that you're making it for really convinced me of how powerful a thing design is. It's not just an aesthetic decoration!"

Genevieve Gorder, Designer

"Every actor and actress is possessed of the absorbing passion to create something distinctive and unique"

Hattie McDaniel, Actress

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