Arts, Media & Entertainment: Art Quotes

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

Hattie McDaniel, Actress

"I'm a culture vulture, and I just want to experience it all"

Debbie Harry, Musician

"I think that you get something for your acting from almost anything you do"

Dabney Coleman, Actor

"I hope my work has inspired young artists. I have always tried to maintain my freedom as an artist and I feel it is one of the main reasons I have been successful"

Frank Frazetta, Artist

"I had always done these 3D things that you could walk through. They were always done off the seat of my pants without blueprints or course"

Red Grooms, Sculptor

"I did two or three plays every summer"

Dabney Coleman, Actor

"I've never tried to learn the art of acting. I have been in the business for years, but I still can't tell what acting is or how it's done"

Paul Muni, Actor

"We don't want other people poking into our artistic pie"

Neville Marriner, Musician

"One has complexes. One has the art complex. One goes to the School of Fine Arts and catches the complexes!"

Jean Tinguely, Sculptor

"It's nice because working in England, I'm know for working in television and theater, when you get a chance to come out, it is quite fun to be out from behind the mask. You need to let people know who you are"

Jeremy Bulloch, Actor

"I don't like sitting around in my dressing room very much. It feels a lot like theater"

Jill Clayburgh, Actress

"But painting can be too lonely... I like being with people too much to have ever made that my life's work"

Marie Windsor, Actress

"Villains are very, very boring to do. They're so much easier than heroes"

Jeremy Brett, Actor

"Jerry often says that Slam Bradley was really the forerunner of Superman, because we turned it out with no restrictions, complete freedom to do what we wanted; the only problem was that we had a deadline"

Joe Shuster, Artist

"He was mostly leaping tall buildings in the beginning. There were cases where he would leap off a tall building or swoop down, and at that point he would look like he was flying, I suppose. It was just natural to draw him like that"

Joe Shuster, Artist

"We thought we were going to go up against SNL on Saturday Nights - that would have changed things so much that it's almost impossible to speculate what might have happened"

David Wain, Writer

"Acting is not about dressing up. Acting is about stripping bare. The whole essence of learning lines is to forget them so you can make them sound like you thought of them that instant"

Glenda Jackson, Actress

"When I first started acting, and we would all sit down and talk about Shakespeare and how great it was. I thought, well, I suppose it is"

Judy Davis, Actress

"The show has boundaries right now, we're trying to widen them, not break them"

George Eads, Actor

"There are no rules. That is how art is born, how breakthroughs happen. Go against the rules or ignore the rules. That is what invention is about"

Helen Frankenthaler, Artist

"My show was revolutionary, ground-breaking. When I came on the scene, people were not doing a thing"

Howard Stern, Entertainer

"We're all in the same room, so I want people to be involved with one another, but again you can't decide exactly to what extent that operates. It varies all the time and it depends on the show, it depends on the audience, it depends on everything"

Mark Morris, Dancer

"The conscience of an artist, worthy of the name, is like an incurable disease, which causes him endless torment, but occasionally fills him with silent joy"

Georges Rouault, Artist

"Subjective artists are one-eyed, but objective artists are blind"

Georges Rouault, Artist

"To me acting is like a jigsaw puzzle. The jigsaw puzzle is of the sky and all the pieces are blue. Out of this you have to create a human being and put it together"

Henry Winkler, Actor

"I did a picture for the first Barbie doll box"

Heather O'Rourke, Actress

"Onstage, I was never the ingenue"

Kristen Johnston, Actress

"Theater dates very quickly"

Fiona Shaw, Actress

"I can hardly decide what plays I should be in"

Fiona Shaw, Actress

"Stage is about imperfections and working with them, whether it be from you or the audience"

Katherine Moennig, Actress

"Genius can probably run on ahead and seek out new ways. But the good artists who follow after genius - and I count myself among these - have to restore the lost connection once more"

Kathe Kollwitz, Artist

"Fashion is a potency in art, making it hard to judge between the temporary and the lasting"

Edmund C. Stedman, Poet

"I'm thinking to myself, I just love doing the art, it takes me a morning to do"

Eddie Campbell, Artist

"You know, the first time I sat in the chair, I felt anything but up, it was very emotional for me. I had a chair in my hotel room, a chair at rehearsal, and I was trying to spend as much time as I could in the chair"

Gregory Hines, Actor

"Outside of advertising, the person who's influenced me most is quite possibly Frank Gehry"

Jay Chiat, Businessman

"I am dominated by one thing, an irresistible, burning attraction towards the abstract"

Gustave Moreau, Artist

"All I wanted was to connect my moods with those of Paris. Beauty paints, and when it painted most, I shot"

Ernst Haas, Photographer

"A picture is the expression of an impression. If the beautiful were not in us, how would we ever recognize it?"

Ernst Haas, Photographer

"I think anybody who has been in the theater, prefers it. Television is a... factory. You turn out things on a revolving assembly line. You don't have time to perfect anything in television"

Gale Gordon, Actor

"There was no professional theater in Cork, but still I did a lot of performing"

Fiona Shaw, Actress

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