Arts, Media & Entertainment: Art Quotes

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"The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep"

Marc Chagall, Artist

"Art teaches nothing except the significance of life"

Michael Korda, Novelist

"I thought I had a great opportunity when I started doing my comic book in 1972. I thought there was so much territory to work in"

Harvey Pekar, Writer

"I think comics have far more potential than a lot of people realize"

Harvey Pekar, Writer

"I am just trying to find a way to make pictures"

Jasper Johns, Artist

"If only life could be a little more tender and art a little more robust"

Alan Rickman, Actor

"Sometimes I see it and then paint it. Other times I paint it and then see it. Both are impure situations, and I prefer neither"

Jasper Johns, Artist

"And that, to me, is the main attraction to comics. It's an avenue to say what you want to say"

Bill Sienkiewicz, Artist

"It's pretty hard to measure influence of written or visual material"

Ben Shahn, Artist

"Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light"

Edvard Munch, Painter

"We wanted to step off our island and add the color of the third world. We got gold cigarette paper and stuck it around our teeth. We really did look like pirates and dressed to look the part!"

Vivienne Westwood, Designer

"In the nude, all that is not beautiful is obscene"

Robert Bresson, Director

"There is a relationship between cartooning and people like Mir= and Picasso, which may not be understood by the cartoonist, but it definitely is related even in the early Disney"

Roy Lichtenstein, Artist

"Acted drama requires surrender of one's self, sympathetic absorption in the play as it develops"

George P. Baker, Writer

"And this fear that US models are replacing everything else now spills over from the sphere of culture into our two remaining categories: for this process is clearly, at one level, the result of economic domination - of local cultural industries closed down by American rivals"

Fredric Jameson, Critic

"Proportion is that agreeable harmony between the several parts of a building, which is the result of a just and regular agreement of them with each other; the height to the width, this to the length, and each of these to the whole"

Marcus V. Pollio, Architect

"I always work out of uncertainty, but when a painting's finished it becomes a fixed idea, apparently a final statement. In time, though, uncertainty returns... your thought process goes on"

Georg Baselitz, Artist

"Once again, I think there is little art being done that really owns up to such intense possibilities"

Peter Sotos, Writer

"I don't think anyone has written a great graphic novel"

Ted Rall, Cartoonist

"No photographer is as good as the simplest camera"

Edward Steichen, Photographer

"Painting is a very difficult thing. It absorbs the whole man, body and soul, thus have I passed blindly many things which belong to real and political life"

Max Beckmann, Artist

"One must ease the public into it - that's an art in itself"

Robert Mapplethorpe, Photographer

"With comics you can put interesting and solid information in a format that's pretty palatable"

Joe Sacco, Journalist

"Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature"

Steven Pinker, Scientist

"Further, for once, I like the idea that people who think I'm a constant voice for the furthering of the imagination have to see that interest in a more materialistic fashion"

Peter Sotos, Writer

"Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike"

Margot Fonteyn, Dancer

"A free culture is not a culture without property; it is not a culture in which artists don't get paid"

Lawrence Lessig, Educator

"I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me"

Roy Lichtenstein, Artist

"Anyone should be able to read comics"

Ted Rall, Cartoonist

"I had always loved expressionist painting, like every European. In fact, I admired it all the more because these were precisely the paintings despised by my father's generation"

Georg Baselitz, Artist

"In all the great periods of the drama perfect freedom of choice and subject, perfect freedom of individual treatment, and an audience eager to give itself to sympathetic listening, even if instruction be involved, have brought the great results"

George P. Baker, Writer

"But I'm not an artist. Maybe an artist with a small a"

John Galliano, Designer

"My life is as an artist, not an entertainer. I don't consider myself an entertainer, but I can do that thing when I want to"

Dan Fogelberg, Musician

"The worse my drawings were, the more beautiful did the originals appear"

John James Audubon, Scientist

"Comics are too big. You can't say any kind or genre of comics is better than another. You can say so subjectively. But to say it like it's objective is wrong. It's wrong morally, because it cuts out stuff that's good"

Ted Rall, Cartoonist

"Conceptual art became the liberating idea that gave the art of the next 40 years its real impetus"

Sol LeWitt, Artist

"I paint people not because of what they are like, not exactly in spite of what they are like, but how they happen to be"

Lucian Freud, Artist

"Involvement in the arts engages kids in their community, improves self-esteem, reclaims at-risk youth, and builds the creative skills that are required of a 21st century workforce"

Gavin Newsom, Politician

"The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a work of art, not the medium. It is the artist in photography that gives form to content by a distillation of ideas, thought, experience, insight, and understanding"

Edward Steichen, Photographer

"What I want to show in my work is the idea which hides itself behind so-called reality"

Max Beckmann, Artist

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