Arts, Media & Entertainment: Art Quotes

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"I had an awful lot to say in what I wore as Romana"

Lalla Ward, Actor

"My price is five dollars for a miniature on ivory, and I have engaged three or four at that price. My price for profiles is one dollar, and everybody is willing to engage me at that price"

Samuel Morse, Inventor

"I like that totally mixed up kind of eclectic group of personal props and bits of costume, and I think the fun of doing that is where I was very lucky with Doctor Who"

Lalla Ward, Actor

"Art is the triumph over chaos"

John Cheever, Writer

"That's the reason support for the National Endowment of the Arts is so important. It enables those ventures that aren't viable commercially to be done"

David Selby, Actor

"I have respect for those who make money at art and do it well and smartly, because that commercial aspect keeps the world going and running, in a sense"

Tina Weymouth, Musician

"I never know what it's going to look like. Wouldn't be much point in painting if I already knew the outcome. I have a subject in front of me and I start flooding colour and making marks, I don't know, it's improvisation isn't it?"

Peter Wright, Celebrity

"We Orientals find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and darkness which that thing provides"

Junichiro Tanizaki, Author

"Performance art is the ultimate in creativity. Since it has so many possibilities at creativity, it's essence tends to become creativity"

Jack Bowman, Actor

"I commissioned this artist to make these silver tomahawks by hand. Larry Sellers, who plays Cloud Dancing on the show, blessed and cleansed them and all"

Joe Lando, Actor

"There is something I feel when I animate something; you can never really understand the character you're animating unless you've had the opportunity to turn it around. Once you've done that, you know it is a three-dimensional object"

Marc Davis, Artist

"The principle of art is to pause, not bypass"

Jerzy Kosinski, Novelist

"Art is the fatal net which catches these strange moments on the wing like mysterious butterflies, fleeing the innocence and distraction of common men"

Giorgio de Chirico, Artist

"The first thing they were told was how to hone their talent. Then they were told how to market their talent, discipline their talent, and type their talent. And then they were told they might as well forget about talent"

Esther B. Fein, Reporter

"The most colorful section of a bookstore is the display of SF books, with art by people like Wayne Barlow, who is a terrific artist"

Bruce Boxleitner, Actor

"Our society's need for escapism has always interested me"

David Lloyd, Artist

"I've done over 125 posters and I have worked with some of the best photographers in the world.They made me America's Number one Pin Up"

Cindy Margolis, Model

"There are two kinds of artists in this world; those that work because the spirit is in them, and they cannot be silent if they would, and those that speak from a conscientious desire to make apparent to others the beauty that has awakened their own admiration"

Anna Katharine Green, Author

"To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists"

Arnold Bennett, Novelist

"I'm interested in locating the holy grail of the minimum means to express the most complex ideas"

Ben Nicholson, Artist

"One must be entirely sensitive to the structure of the material that one is handling. One must yield to it in tiny details of execution, perhaps the handling of the surface or grain, and one must master it as a whole"

Barbara Hepworth, Artist

"I'm interested in how artists and writers do this, using art as therapy. Escaping into the worlds we create. We're all victims and few of us are truly free"

David Lloyd, Artist

"Body experience... is the centre of creation"

Barbara Hepworth, Artist

"At no point do I wish to be in conflict with any man or masculine thought. It doesn't enter my consciousness. Art is anonymous. It's not competitive with men. It's a complementary contribution"

Barbara Hepworth, Artist

"My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind"

Agnes Martin, Artist

"It takes a long time for a man to look like his portrait"

James Whistler, Artist

"An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision"

James Whistler, Artist

"The whole celebrity culture thing - I'm fascinated by, and repelled by, and yet I end up knowing about it"

Anderson Cooper, Journalist

"The life of a dancer is tragically short. What is remarkable about the New York City Ballet is that it makes us forget that, because it keeps the ballet alive"

John Guare, Playwright

"I'm interested in the emotional life of clothing"

Grace Wales Bonner, Designer

"I don't think art is propaganda; it should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. It celebrates humanity instead of manipulating it"

Keith Haring, Artist

"So if I want to buy a light in a shop and I don't find a light that I like, I think to myself what would I like? What would I like to buy? Then I started to imagine and design it for myself a lot of the time"

Marc Newson, Designer

"You use everything. You use tragedy, you use everything"

Shannon Hoon, Musician

"The dripping... well, if it happens, it happens; it does not take anything from the work. The dripping just proves that you were not trying to control the work, but the work was developing by itself, and if it drips, it's a natural part in the evolution of the work"

Keith Haring, Artist

"I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint? It might be things, thoughts, a memory, sensations, which have nothing to do directly with painting itself. They can come from anything and anywhere"

Philip Guston, Artist

"It is more important to click with people than to click the shutter"

Alfred Eisenstaedt, Photographer

"Art is always in the eyes of the beholder. Only posterity has the right to point out our mistakes"

Len Wein, Cartoonist

"I think creativity is spiritual. I absolutely believe that"

F. Murray Abraham, Actor

"There is nothing as mysterious as a fact clearly described. I photograph to see what something will look like photographed"

Garry Winogrand, Photographer

"One of the few things in dance to match the Royal Ballet's curtain calls is the Royal Ballet's dancing"

Clive Barnes, Journalist

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