Arts, Media & Entertainment: Art Quotes

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"Just as the bird sings or the butterfly soars, because it is his natural characteristic, so the artist works"

Alma Gluck, Musician

"Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts"

Walker Evans, Photographer

"Postmodernism is, among other things, a sick joke at the expense of revolutionary avant-gardism"

Terry Eagleton, Critic

"Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail"

Theodore Dreiser, Novelist

"I believe that any art communicates what you're in the mood to receive"

Larry Rivers, Musician

"The thing about acting is you don't want to let on how enjoyable it is or then everybody would want to become an actress. But it really is. It's a pleasure to go and exchange your identity"

Gena Rowlands, Actress

"A creation needs not only subjectivity, but also objectivity"

Stephen Chow, Actor

"A good artist has less time than ideas"

Martin Kippenberger, Artist

"There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment. This kind of photography is realism. But realism is not enough - there has to be vision, and the two together can make a good photograph"

Robert Frank, Photographer

"An actress must be a woman whose emotional perceptions are true, and to make them so, she must have a fine contempt for any art or thought that betrays them for something false"

Nance O'Neil, Actress

"I'm supposed to be making comics, so I had to do it the best way I knew how, which is what those guys at the beginning of the Twentieth Century were doing"

Art Spiegelman, Artist

"I really understand what that process is all about and how important it is, especially with young folk and creative folk that love looking for some platform that makes it easier for them to express themselves"

Mick Fleetwood, Musician

"Television has tremendous power over our lives"

Julie Nixon Eisenhower, Celebrity

"One might not think of light as a matter of fact, but I do. And it is, as I said, as plain and open and direct an art as you will ever find"

Dan Flavin, Sculptor

"Comics, at least in periodical form, exist almost entirely free of any pretense; the critical world of art hardly touches them, and they're 100% personal"

Chris Ware, Artist

"Artists speak the truth to the public without fear of retribution or damage to their careers"

Ron Silver, Actor

"I'm an actor who believes we all have triggers to any stage of emotion. It's not always easy to find but it's still there"

Hugh Jackman, Actor

"Crafts make us feel rooted, give us a sense of belonging and connect us with our history. Our ancestors used to create these crafts out of necessity, and now we do them for fun, to make money and to express ourselves"

Phyllis George, Journalist

"Not that painting would have been a release. The reason for doing it is the desire to create. I've got to do it! I've seen that, I can still remember it, I've got to paint it"

Otto Dix, Artist

"I am interested in ideas, not merely in visual products"

Marcel Duchamp, Artist

"A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness, in fact, he creates new appearances of things"

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Artist

"It was the moment I learned acting is not acting out. After that light went on, I spent the rest of my life trying to figure out how to make other people realize it"

William Hurt, Actor

"Copy nature and you infringe on the work of our Lord. Interpret nature and you are an artist"

Jacques Lipchitz, Sculptor

"I have no desire to prove anything by dancing. I have never used it as an outlet or a means of expressing myself. I just dance. I just put my feet in the air and move them around"

Fred Astaire, Actor

"My definition of modernism took a while to develop"

Peter Gay, Historian

"I would think a sense of the absurd is more important for a political cartoonist, because that could define things like a sense of hypocrisy or a sense of the things one has to be skeptical about"

Jonathan Shapiro, Cartoonist

"Television is much better crafted today then in the 70's. The content is less positive, but I'm one of those that feel our entertainment reflects our world, it's not a driver - Art imitates life"

Christopher Knight, Actor

"No one's conception of art is going to be acceptable to everybody"

Jane Alexander, Actress

"Pop art is the inedible raised to the unspeakable"

Leonard Baskin, Artist

"Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb"

Jean Arp, Sculptor

"I have never been able to understand the artist whose image never changes"

Lee Krasner, Artist

"A lot of the stuff that I do with Betty is in the eyes. A lot of the feelings that I evoke with her are unspoken, so that's been fun to play with"

January Jones, Actress

"Why do we pigeonhole and label an artist? It is a sure way of missing the important, the contradictory, the things that make him or her unique"

Lukas Foss, Composer

"My name is Kurt Schwitters... I am an artist and I nail my pictures together"

Kurt Schwitters, Artist

"Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see"

Henri Rousseau, Artist

"There are elements of intrinsic beauty in the simplification of a house built on the log cabin idea"

Gustav Stickley, Architect

"Anything that excites me for any reason, I will photograph; not searching for unusual subject matter, but making the commonplace unusual"

Edward Weston, Photographer

"It is the task of several months, and it is a fact that a girl, either while rehearsing or actually playing, may be training for some character or feature in some future production, not yet definitely fixed, even in my own mind"

Florenz Ziegfeld, Producer

"If art has a purpose, it is to interpret life, reproduce it in fresh visions"

Catherine Drinker Bowen, Writer

"Everything is beautiful, all that matters is to be able to interpret"

Camille Pissarro, Artist

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