Arts, Media & Entertainment: Art Quotes

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"I'm more interested in seeing what the material tells me than in imposing my will on it"

John Chamberlain, Artist

"It's embarrassing to be involved in the same business as the mainstream comic thing. It's still very embarrassing to tell other adults that I draw comic books - their instant, preconceived notions of what that means"

Daniel Clowes, Author

"Having started out in theatre, I feel an impulse to do it as much as I can"

Cillian Murphy, Actor

"Art is a liaison between some sort of deranged mentality and others who are not going through it"

John Chamberlain, Artist

"Your photography is a record of your living, for anyone who really sees"

Paul Strand, Photographer

"Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want"

Clive Barnes, Journalist

"Our demands are simple, normal, and therefore they are difficult to satisfy. All we ask is that an actor on the stage live in accordance with natural laws"

Konstantin Stanislavisky, Actor

"It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their humanness"

Paul Strand, Photographer

"Most Americans would agree that Plowshares is a Theatre of the Absurd"

Daniel Berrigan, Clergyman

"I was unable to sleep and I would stay up and draw these little cartoons. Then a friend showed them around. Before I knew it I was a cartoonist"

Lynda Barry, Cartoonist

"When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear"

Alfred Eisenstaedt, Photographer

"Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts"

Garry Winogrand, Photographer

"One reason I do the live shows - and the monthly speeches at public radio stations - is to remind myself that people hear the show, that it has an audience, that it exists in the world. It's so easy to forget that"

Ira Glass, Journalist

"Remember: there are no small parts, only small actors"

Konstantin Stanislavisky, Actor

"To paint is a possessing rather than a picturing"

Philip Guston, Artist

"The first writing of the human being was drawing, not writing"

Marjane Satrapi, Artist

"I love the medium and I love individual comics, but the business is nothing I would be proud of"

Daniel Clowes, Author

"I don't know if anybody wants to mix their politics with their entertainment"

Fiona Apple, Musician

"I loved acting, which was never about money, the fame. It was about a search for meaning. It was painful"

Kim Novak, Actress

"We undress men and women, we don't dress them any more"

Pierre Cardin, Designer

"The higher the artist, the fewer the gestures. The fewer the tools, the greater the imagination. The greater the will, the greater the secret failure"

Ben Okri, Poet

"So, I lived at the Beijing Opera, I ate there, I learned a craft. And the money we made went into the company"

John Lone, Actor

"Color is a very critical thing. I've found that architects don't like colors. Engineers, too. And so somebody has to stand in. Because this is the finish of it. It is the emotional part of a structure. I had great satisfaction in doing that"

John Hench, Artist

"The idea is to bring art to people who might never really interact with it. It's for all citizens, and it's about making the city more interesting and more visually significant"

Susan Davis, Politician

"That's the joy of art - it should be dangerous and challenging but it's just art - it's safe"

Val Kilmer, Actor

"If geography is prose, maps are iconography"

Lennart Meri, Statesman

"We're very pleased to be on a show which is known and loved around the world"

Harry Shearer, Actor

"The first play I saw was a Samuel Beckett play which was great"

Val Kilmer, Actor

"My interests were in fantasy more than comics, growing up"

Brandon Routh, Actor

"I had never done Shakespeare before, but I don't think you can be an actor and not do it. There were moments when I thought, I'm just not going to be able to pull this off!"

Jessica Lange, Actress

"All of the penciling was consistently done by one person and the inking was whoever could finish on time"

Gil Kane, Artist

"The whole series is black-and-white, so when I went to shoot one of the women I only had black-and-white film with me. She had reddish hair and was a very pretty girl, a nice girl"

Helmut Newton, Photographer

"I have mixed feelings about those sorts of things. When I see it done by interesting young people, I think it's very valid. But when established photographers, people in their forties, copy me and get a lot of money, well, I find that to be very stupid"

Helmut Newton, Photographer

"Because the mask is your face, the face is a mask, so I'm thinking of the face as a mask because of the way I see faces is coming from an African vision of the mask which is the thing that we carry around with us, it is our presentation, it's our front, it's our face"

Faith Ringgold, Artist

"A painting is a symbol for the universe. Inside it, each piece relates to the other. Each piece is only answerable to the rest of that little world. So, probably in the total universe, there is that kind of total harmony, but we get only little tastes of it"

Corita Kent, Artist

"Great art is an instant arrested in eternity"

James Huneker, Writer

"There were time when I was into method acting that I did have moments of residual character emotions, because the method bases your emotional responses as a character on emotional experiences from your real life"

Corin Nemec, Actor

"Even though I was theatrically trained, learning to develop a character was an awesome experience"

Corin Nemec, Actor

"One of the things that I am happy about in my life as an artist is that I am not considered a Hispanic artist"

Andres Serrano, Photographer

"Whatever has happened in my quest for innovation has been part of my quest for immaculate reality"

George Lucas, Director

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