Arts, Media & Entertainment: Art Quotes

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"Painting is sometimes like those recipes where you do all manner of elaborate things to a duck, and then end up putting it on one side and only using the skin"

Lucian Freud, Artist

"A good daguerreotype was as perfect a kind of photograph as was ever made"

Edward Steichen, Photographer

"The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each to himself. And that is the most complicated thing on earth"

Edward Steichen, Photographer

"In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it"

Ernst Fischer, Writer

"I feel like I've been marinated in Australian theatre"

Cate Blanchett, Actress

"There is no art without Eros"

Max Frisch, Novelist

"Every artistic expression is either influenced by or adds something to politics"

Dario Fo, Playwright

"Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal"

Egon Schiele, Artist

"I do not deny that I have made drawings and watercolors of an erotic nature. But they are always works of art. Are there no artists who have done erotic pictures?"

Egon Schiele, Artist

"With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it's just not acting. It's lying"

Johnny Depp, Actor

"If the weather is good I go into the nearby wood - there I am painting a small beech forest (in the sun) with a few conifers mixed in. This takes until 8 'o clock"

Gustav Klimt, Artist

"All art is erotic"

Gustav Klimt, Artist

"After tea it's back to painting - a large poplar at dusk with a gathering storm. From time to time, instead of this evening painting session, I go bowling in one of the neighbouring villages, but not very often"

Gustav Klimt, Artist

"I am selfish, but that's an attribute that all artists possess"

Robert Mapplethorpe, Photographer

"Some people have been kind enough to call me a fine artist. I've always called myself an illustrator. I'm not sure what the difference is. All I know is that whatever type of work I do, I try to give it my very best. Art has been my life"

Norman Rockwell, Artist

"People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love"

Claude Monet, Artist

"No art that is not in the end understood by the people can live or ever did live a single generation"

Frank Norris, Novelist

"The biggest thrill in the world is entertaining the public, there is no bigger thrill than that"

Vince McMahon, Entertainer

"Sometimes you don't know what you've got until you put it in front of an audience - and the enthusiasm for the show from the audience has been just incredible"

Matthew Bourne, Dancer

"I think it is in collaboration that the nature of art is revealed"

Steve Lacy, Musician

"I like form and shape and strength in pictures"

Herb Ritts, Photographer

"The cult of individuality and personality, which promotes painters and poets only to promote itself, is really a business. The greater the 'genius' of the personage, the greater the profit"

George Grosz, Artist

"I'm not an exhibitionist. But, honestly, for my art I'll do anything almost. I'll go there"

Eva Mendes, Actress

"The creative process is not controlled by a switch you can simply turn on or off; it's with you all the time"

Alvin Ailey, Dancer

"When I think of art, I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection"

Agnes Martin, Artist

"Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That and surprise"

Julia Cameron, Author

"It's good to have a title that's not just one word. If you're gonna title it, you might as well try and say something"

Damien Hirst, Artist

"I've learned that I'm most powerful when I'm doing my art"

Andre Benjamin, Musician

"Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns"

Willem de Kooning, Artist

"I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers"

Claude Monet, Artist

"I believe in advertisement and media completely. My art and my personal life are based in it. I think that the art world would probably be a tremendous reservoir for everybody involved in advertising"

Jeff Koons, Artist

"I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is"

Jean-Michel Basquiat, Artist

"Acting is not a mystery. There's nothing that I know that other actors don't know. We all act, we're all actors, we all know the same thing. The only thing that separates us is experience"

Vincent D'Onofrio, Actor

"Believe it or not, I can actually draw"

Jean-Michel Basquiat, Artist

"What I'm saying is that I tried very hard to give them my reality and my reality is kind of interesting"

Liza Minnelli, Actress

"Art is made to disturb, science reassures"

Georges Braque, Artist

"What's gratifying about West Wing is that everybody told us that it couldn't be done - that the man or woman on the street didn't care about politics. But if you set things up correctly, people don't have a problem with it"

Rob Lowe, Actor

"Once an object has been incorporated in a picture, it accepts a new destiny"

Georges Braque, Artist

"African art is functional, it serves a purpose. It's not a dormant. It's not a means to collect the largest cheering section. It should be healing, a source: a joy. Spreading positive vibrations"

Mos Def, Musician

"To me, the job of the artist is to provide a useful and intelligent vocabulary for the world to be able to articulate feelings they experience everyday, and otherwise wouldn't have the means to express in a meaningful and useful way"

Mos Def, Musician

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