Arts, Media & Entertainment: Art Quotes

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"The ancient Greeks noticed that a man with arms and legs extended described a circle, with his navel as the center"

Stephen Gardiner, Architect

"Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest"

Stephen Gardiner, Architect

"The theatre is the involuntary reflex of the ideas of the crowd"

Sarah Bernhardt, Actress

"Only when inspired to go beyond consciousness by some extraordinary insight does beauty manifest unexpectedly"

Arthur Erickson, Architect

"Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic products of the heart"

Arthur Erickson, Architect

"You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film"

Arthur Erickson, Architect

"The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode"

Flannery O'Connor, Author

"Acting is a personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you're playing through your own experience"

Mia Maestro, Actress

"No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination"

Edward Hopper, Artist

"What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house"

Edward Hopper, Artist

"The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire, and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation"

Auguste Rodin, Sculptor

"Maybe I am not very human - what I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house"

Edward Hopper, Artist

"In general, it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of its people"

Edward Hopper, Artist

"Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became"

Louis Kahn, Architect

"A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed, and in the end must be unmeasurable"

Louis Kahn, Architect

"Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated"

Auguste Rodin, Sculptor

"I trust Winsor and Newton and I paint directly upon it"

Edward Hopper, Artist

"When one loves one's Art no service seems too hard"

O. Henry, Writer

"How can anybody learn anything from an artwork when the piece of art only reflects the vanity of the artist and not reality?"

Lou Reed, Musician

"I like boring things"

Andy Warhol, Artist

"An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have"

Andy Warhol, Artist

"To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination"

George Jean Nathan, Editor

"Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end"

Milan Kundera, Writer

"I think there is a new awareness in this 21st century that design is as important to where and how we live as it is for museums, concert halls and civic buildings"

Daniel Libeskind, Architect

"Cities are the greatest creations of humanity"

Daniel Libeskind, Architect

"Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen"

George Jean Nathan, Editor

"Yes, the work comes out more beautiful from a material that resists the process: verse, marble, onyx, or enamel"

Theophile Gautier, Poet

"My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience"

Luis Barragan, Architect

"Architecture is a art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces well being"

Luis Barragan, Architect

"That which, perhaps, hears more nonsense than anything in the world, is a picture in a museum"

Edmond De Goncourt, Writer

"Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks, from which the air has been literally hewn out between the columns"

Arne Jacobsen, Architect

"Almost every time I make a building, some people will condemn it straight to Hell"

Arne Jacobsen, Architect

"With a painter or a sculptor, one cannot begin to alter his works, but an architect has to put up with anything, because he makes utility objects - the building is there to be used, and times change"

Arne Jacobsen, Architect

"The thing is that I have a really intense, almost compulsive need to record. But it doesn't end there, because what I record is somehow transformed into a creative thing. There is a continuity. Recording is the beginning of a conceptual production. I am somehow collapsing the two - recording and producing - into a single event"

Rem Koolhaas, Architect

"One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together"

Jean-Luc Godard, Director

"Art is always criticized, and always an outsider gets the blame"

Ville Valo, Musician

"We felt it was very important for an entity like CCTV to make its presence felt... To generate a space and to define a space, that is the main thing"

Rem Koolhaas, Architect

"Designs are increasingly winning competitions because they are literally green, and because somewhere they feature a small windmill"

Rem Koolhaas, Architect

"I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium"

Brian Eno, Musician

"I see and write things first as an artist, second as a woman, and third as a New Yorker. All three have built-in perspectives that aren't neutral"

Laurie Anderson, Musician

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