Arts, Media & Entertainment: Art Quotes

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"If you move something 10 pounds through space and then stop suddenly, there's a little overshoot. When you transfer weight from one leg to another, there's a certain way that it happens"

Brad Bird, Cartoonist

"I feel uncomfortable with the term public art, because I'm not sure what it means. If it means what I think it does, then I don't do it. I'm not crazy about categories"

Barbara Kruger, Artist

"Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature"

Josef Albers, Artist

"It is not so for art in appreciation because art is concerned with human behavior. And science is concerned with the behavior of metal or energy. It depends on what the fashion is. Now today it's energy. It's the same soul behind it. The same soul, you see"

Josef Albers, Artist

"I prefer to see with closed eyes"

Josef Albers, Artist

"TV gives everyone an image, but radio gives birth to a million images in a million brains"

Peggy Noonan, Writer

"We live in a fractured world. I've always seen it as my role as an artist to attempt to make wholeness"

Anish Kapoor, Artist

"The work itself has a complete circle of meaning and counterpoint. And without your involvement as a viewer, there is no story"

Anish Kapoor, Artist

"Red is a colour I've felt very strongly about. Maybe red is a very Indian colour, maybe it's one of those things that I grew up with and recognise at some other level"

Anish Kapoor, Artist

"One doesn't make art for other people, even though I am very concerned with the viewer"

Anish Kapoor, Artist

"I'm an artist who works with pictures and words. Sometimes that stuff ends up in different kinds of sites and contexts which determine what it means and looks like"

Barbara Kruger, Artist

"I try to deal with the complexities of power and social life, but as far as the visual presentation goes, I purposely avoid a high degree of difficulty"

Barbara Kruger, Artist

"Do you know why language manifests itself the way it does in my work? It's because I understand short attention spans"

Barbara Kruger, Artist

"Direct address has been a consistent tactic in my work, regardless of the medium that I'm working in"

Barbara Kruger, Artist

"It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of self-deception"

Robert Motherwell, Artist

"Through her paintings, she breaks all the taboos of the woman's body and of female sexuality"

Diego Rivera, Artist

"Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it"

Robert Motherwell, Artist

"I believe art has to take responsibility, but it should not give up being art"

Anselm Kiefer, Artist

"Life is very nice, but it lacks form. It's the aim of art to give it some"

Jean Anouilh, Playwright

"Obviously Spawn was at the top of the charts at that point, so you get a lot of opportunities"

Todd McFarlane, Artist

"The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened"

Tom Wolfe, Journalist

"I don't see myself in terms of artifice. I see myself as a real person who chooses to live my life in an open way - artistically"

Lady Gaga, Musician

"The concept of absurdity is something I'm attracted to"

David Lynch, Director

"From a sequence of these individual patterns, whole buildings with the character of nature will form themselves within your thoughts, as easily as sentences"

Christopher Alexander, Architect

"Everyone is aware that most of the built environment today lacks a natural order, an order which presents itself very strongly in places that were built centuries ago"

Christopher Alexander, Architect

"I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them"

Diane Arbus, Photographer

"I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do - that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first did it, I felt very perverse"

Diane Arbus, Photographer

"A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know"

Diane Arbus, Photographer

"Once in awhile, there's stuff that makes me say, That's what theatre's about. It has to be a human event on the stage, and that doesn't happen very often"

Uta Hagen, Actress

"Well, I am not interested in the kind of expression that you have when you paint a painting with brush strokes. It's all right, but it's already done and I want to do something new"

Donald Judd, Artist

"Usually, when someone says a thing is too simple, they're saying that certain familiar things aren't there, and they're seeing a couple, maybe, that are left, which they count as a couple, that's all"

Donald Judd, Artist

"And then we moved to New Jersey and I went to the Art Students League"

Donald Judd, Artist

"I am for an art that takes into account the direct effect of the elements as they exist from day to day apart from representation"

Robert Smithson, Artist

"Art history is less explosive than the rest of history, so it sinks faster into the pulverized regions of time"

Robert Smithson, Artist

"The new job of art is to sit on the wall and get more expensive"

Robert Hughes, Critic

"My work has been much more Caribbean and eclectic. I am interested in people, and where they come from happens to have fallen within an area of Africa"

Katherine Dunham, Dancer

"Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation"

Henri Cartier-Bresson, Photographer

"All creative people want to do the unexpected"

Hedy Lamarr, Actress

"Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous"

Bill Moyers, Journalist

"The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination"

Richard Wright, Novelist

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