Arts, Media & Entertainment: Art Quotes

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

George Lucas, Director

"As an artist, you have to have a certain amount of arrogance"

Kim Weston, Photographer

"An artist is nothing without his or her obsessions, and I have mine"

Andres Serrano, Photographer

"I have always sought to create a kind of painting that is free of all the unnecessary details, to make it as simple and monumental as possible, and to express the emotions that the landscapes have given me"

Harald Sohlberg, Painter

"I am a kitsch painter. It means that I am working on human reactions, and I have found out that I am not alone"

Odd Nerdrum, Painter

"Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea"

Yoshio Taniguchi, Architect

"Black Books adheres to a more old fashioned, traditional sitcom format, which I think works, because in its own way, it's quite theatrical"

Dylan Moran, Comedian

"Knowing how to paint and to use one's colors rightly has not any connection with originality. This originality consists in properly expressing your own impressions"

Thomas Couture, Artist

"When people say 'What are underground comics?' I think the best way you can define them is just the absolute freedom involved... we didn't have anyone standing over us"

Robert Crumb, Artist

"There are no such things as the Elgin Marbles"

Melina Mercouri, Actress

"For me, the printing process is part of the magic of photography. It's that magic that can be exciting, disappointing, rewarding and frustrating all in the same few moments in the darkroom"

John Sexton, Educator

"It was amazing that a play that seems dated in this world... A man whose best friend is a six-foot white rabbit... But it caught on, especially with young people - they surprised me most of all"

James Stewart, Actor

"Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels"

Francisco de Goya, Artist

"In art, theories are as useful as a doctor's prescription; one must be sick to believe them"

Maurice de Vlaminck, Artist

"One does not devote one's life in art to shock an audience"

Richard Foreman, Playwright

"Landscape is a piece that is emotional and psychological"

Jim Hodges, Politician

"I felt it was part of the spirit of the whole program to do more than simply make an object"

Martin Puryear, Sculptor

"Each work has its own space, which should neither be conceived as a sort of cage nor regarded as extending to infinity"

Marino Marini, Sculptor

"My characters have undergone the same process of simplification as the colors. Now that they have been simplified, they appear more human and alive than if they had been represented in all their details"

Joan Miro, Artist

"People feel like they know me from the work I have done, but it's not me"

Michael C. Hall, Actor

"The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious"

Lester Bangs, Critic

"In practice, attempts to sort out good erotica from bad porn inevitably comes down to: What turns me on is erotica; what turns you on is pornographic"

Ellen Willis, Writer

"To change your phrase somewhat, I know that I like an art where disparate elements form an entity"

James Schuyler, Poet

"So many shows out there dumb-down the country. It's so admirable to be part of a show that wants people to think"

David Krumholtz, Actor

"What difference does it make whether you're looking at a photograph or looking at a still life in front of you? You still have to look"

Chuck Close, Artist

"Sometimes I wish the writing and drawing were more integrated"

Alison Bechdel, Cartoonist

"I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace"

Ad Reinhardt, Artist

"Though the artist must remain master of his craft, the surface, at times raised to the highest pitch of loveliness, should transmit to the beholder the sensation which possessed the artist"

Alfred Sisley, Artist

"Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made"

Ted Shawn, Dancer

"Every man is an artist"

Joseph Beuys, Artist

"The Dancer believes that his art has something to say which cannot be expressed in words or in any other way than by dancing"

Doris Humphrey, Dancer

"Set me a task in which I can put something of my very self, and it is a task no longer; it is joy; it is art"

Bliss Carman, Poet

"Every painting I do is related to the last one: it may be a continuation of a previous painting or it may be a reaction against it"

William Scott, Writer

"The real secret of magic lies in the performance"

David Copperfield, Celebrity

"There is an audience for every play; it's just that sometimes it can't wait long enough to find it"

Shirley Booth, Actress

"In painting feathers, you want to create the look of feathers, but if you try to paint all the feathers, you have nothing but disaster"

John O'Neill, Athlete

"I see dance being used as communication between body and soul, to express what it too deep to find for words"

Ruth St. Denis, Dancer

"Technique! The very word is like a shriek of outraged Art. It is the idiot name given to effort by those who are too weak, too weary, or too dull to play the game. The mighty have no theory of technique"

Leonard Bacon, Clergyman

"A designer is only as good as the star who wears her clothes"

Edith Head, Designer

"Outside of the chair, the teapot is the most ubiquitous and important design element in the domestic environment and almost everyone who has tackled the world of design has ended up designing one"

David McFadden, Poet

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