Arts, Media & Entertainment: Art Quotes

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"Picasso once remarked, I do not care who it is that has or does influence me as long as it is not myself"

Gertrude Stein, Author

Gertrude Stein

"A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears"

Gertrude Stein, Author

Gertrude Stein

"One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come"

Gertrude Stein, Author

Gertrude Stein

"I've never looked at a suburban building as being a minor building and an urban building as being a major building"

Helmut Jahn, Architect

"I strive for an architecture from which nothing can be taken away"

Helmut Jahn, Architect

"We want our buildings to work like a machine that will create a pleasurable environment"

Helmut Jahn, Architect

"Every building is a prototype. No two are alike"

Helmut Jahn, Architect

"A city building you experience when you walk; a suburban building you experience when you drive"

Helmut Jahn, Architect

"I have worked with several dance companies"

Issey Miyake, Designer

Issey Miyake

"I started to work with cotton fabrics. I used cotton because it's easy to work with, to wash, to take care of, to wear if it's warm or cold. It's great. That was the start!"

Issey Miyake, Designer

Issey Miyake

"We are creating a unique experience. It's starts with how you see the building from a distance"

Helmut Jahn, Architect

"In Europe, architects consider themselves artists. They think they're special when they win a competition"

Helmut Jahn, Architect

"We can also cut by heat - heat punch. And we also can cut by cold - extreme cold. When you cut with heat, it makes a mark. With cold, no mark. It depends on the fabric"

Issey Miyake, Designer

Issey Miyake

"Many people will say, well, clothes should be worn; but I think people can look at them in public, like seeing a film. I think museum exhibitions are very important"

Issey Miyake, Designer

Issey Miyake

"You don't know what the Chinese expect in the way of beauty. The presentation is just a farce. You come into a room filled with 50 people and they don't talk to you. There's very little interaction"

Helmut Jahn, Architect

"Critics are entitled to have an opinion, but how can they judge how comfortable a building is? No critic is smart enough to judge how a building will perform over time"

Helmut Jahn, Architect

"Creativity has more to do with the elimination of the inessential than with inventing something new"

Helmut Jahn, Architect

"Television is not the exclusive target of promoters. Is Superman really worthy of a Newsweek cover?"

Phil Donahue, Entertainer

Phil Donahue

"The Tube is a vehicle for selling things, not for exploring ideas"

Phil Donahue, Entertainer

Phil Donahue

"The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life"

Arthur Miller, Playwright

Arthur Miller

"The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum"

Alexis Carrel, Scientist

Alexis Carrel

"In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves"

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton, Politician

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

"It is my art. I am better at it than I ever was. And I will do it as long as I can. When you reach a certain age you can slough off what is unnecessary and concentrate on what is. And why not?"

Arthur Miller, Playwright

Arthur Miller

"I'm the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in my lifetime"

Arthur Miller, Playwright

Arthur Miller

"When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony"

Madeleine L'Engle, Novelist

Madeleine L'Engle

"Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling"

Madeleine L'Engle, Novelist

Madeleine L'Engle

"I like the fact that in ancient Chinese art the great painters always included a deliberate flaw in their work: Human creation is never perfect"

Madeleine L'Engle, Novelist

Madeleine L'Engle

"Popular art is the dream of society; it does not examine itself"

Margaret Atwood, Novelist

Margaret Atwood

"Creativity is the greatest expression of liberty"

Bryant H. McGill, Author

Bryant H. McGill

"They are imbeciles who call my work abstract. That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is not the exterior but the idea, the essence of things"

Constantin Brancusi, Sculptor

Constantin Brancusi

"Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory"

Claude Debussy, Composer

Claude Debussy

"I didn't have any interest in traditional art"

Cindy Sherman, Photographer

Cindy Sherman

"Don't look for obscure formulas or mystery in my work. It is pure joy that I offer you. Look at my sculptures until you see them. Those closest to God have seen them"

Constantin Brancusi, Sculptor

Constantin Brancusi

"There hasn't been any art yet. Art is just beginning"

Constantin Brancusi, Sculptor

Constantin Brancusi

"Simplicity is not an objective in art, but one achieves simplicity despite one's self by entering into the real sense of things"

Constantin Brancusi, Sculptor

Constantin Brancusi

"Every time you have to come up with a new body of work for a new show, you're aware that people are just ready to rip you apart, they're just waiting for you to fall or make the slightest trip up"

Cindy Sherman, Photographer

Cindy Sherman

"I think I always resented the fact that people thought I was trying to entertain them with my multifaceted, chameleonlike character changes. Although I liked doing that, I wasn't out to fool people and say 'Guess which one is me.'"

Cindy Sherman, Photographer

Cindy Sherman

"Extreme complication is contrary to art"

Claude Debussy, Composer

Claude Debussy

"There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty"

Joseph Addison, Writer

Joseph Addison

"What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators"

Igor Stravinsky, Composer

Igor Stravinsky

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