Arts, Media & Entertainment: Art Quotes

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"The actor has to develop his body. The actor has to work on his voice. But the most important thing the actor has to work on is his mind"

Stella Adler, Actress

"The actor cannot afford to look only to his own life for all his material nor pull strictly from his own experience to find his acting choices and feelings"

Stella Adler, Actress

"Make them laugh, make them cry, and hack to laughter. What do people go to the theatre for? An emotional exercise. I am a servant of the people. I have never forgotten that"

Mary Pickford, Actress

"Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art"

Wallace Stevens, Poet

"What made me fall in love with acting, which is my life, was watching other people perform. It made me hunger to do that"

Elisabeth Rohm, Actress

"Oracle was, I had started it, I guess, two and a half years ago, maybe even longer than that, closer to three"

Robert Rauschenberg, Artist

"I always have a good reason for taking something out, but I never have one for putting something in. And I don't want to, because that means that the picture is being painted predigested"

Robert Rauschenberg, Artist

"But I was in awe of the painters; I mean, I was new in New York, and I thought the painting that was going on here was just unbelievable"

Robert Rauschenberg, Artist

"No, there's not much competition between puppeteers in general because everybody's working their own style"

Jim Henson, Entertainer

"I wouldn't use the same color in a picture in more than one place"

Robert Rauschenberg, Artist

"I got so I was really just sick of sculpture"

Robert Rauschenberg, Artist

"I'm one of those people who thinks you can have a happy life and still be an artist"

Shelley Duvall, Actress

"So that ideas of sort of relaxed symmetry have been something for years that I have been concerned with because I think that symmetry is a neutral shape as opposed to a form of design"

Robert Rauschenberg, Artist

"I'm sure we don't read old paintings the way they were intended"

Robert Rauschenberg, Artist

"I did a twenty foot print and John Cage is involved in that because he was the only person I knew in New York who had a car and who would be willing to do this"

Robert Rauschenberg, Artist

"Very quickly, a painting is turned into a facsimile of itself, when one becomes so familiar with with it that one recognizes it without looking at it"

Robert Rauschenberg, Artist

"And all of this, all these physical aspects of painting at that time excited me very much. You could do a picture in just black and white. I mean all the things, whether you're soliciting permission or not, do give you permission"

Robert Rauschenberg, Artist

"Pollock also... wanted one to be wrapped in the painting"

Robert Rauschenberg, Artist

"One can see that a canvas is six feet by eight feet, say, quite accurately. But you can spend two minutes and think it's five, or thirty seconds and it's just a different bed for activities there"

Robert Rauschenberg, Artist

"But I found a lot of artists at the Cedar Bar were difficult for me to talk to"

Robert Rauschenberg, Artist

"And also the new excitement and variety of ways that the abstract expressionists were applying paint. You could put it on as though it were colored air and it would be painting"

Robert Rauschenberg, Artist

"If anything, there's a difference in working with color in England and the color in the US"

Jim Henson, Entertainer

"You're assisting the audience to understand; you're giving them a bridge or an access. And if you don't give them that, if you keep it more abstract, it's almost more pure. It's a cooler thing"

Jim Henson, Entertainer

"If you're doing a large, complicated character with radio controls, it might take a number of people several months to make it, and if you're talking about a quick little hand puppet, it could be made in 2 days, so there's enormous range there, and no real easy generalities"

Jim Henson, Entertainer

"I decided that what I really wanted to do was go off and paint"

Jim Henson, Entertainer

"Actually, the copies of characters is something I don't particularly like to talk about in articles, but just for your information, most characters there's only one"

Jim Henson, Entertainer

"Yeah, I did some small parts in high school and the first year of college and then fairly soon thereafter, I settled into the backstage scenery, and then at the University of Maryland, I was doing posters for their productions"

Jim Henson, Entertainer

"Somebody like a Piggy or a Kermit, there needs to be several versions, and so there will be several of them"

Jim Henson, Entertainer

"An empty canvas is full"

Robert Rauschenberg, Artist

"Yeah, I think we did the term Muppets before we got the show Sam and Friends - a few months after I started working"

Jim Henson, Entertainer

"Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?"

Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer

"The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget"

John Berger, Artist

"Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before"

Edith Wharton, Author

"Confrontation is something that I accept as part of the project, though not its purpose"

Andy Goldsworthy, Artist

"Fire is the origin of stone.By working the stone with heat, I am returning it to its source"

Andy Goldsworthy, Artist

"A snowball is simple, direct and familiar to most of us. I use this simplicity as a container for feelings and ideas that function on many levels"

Andy Goldsworthy, Artist

"Three or four stones in one firing will all react differently. I try to achieve a balance between those that haven't progressed enough and those about to go too far"

Andy Goldsworthy, Artist

"Photography is a way of putting distance between myself and the work, which sometimes helps me to see more clearly what it is that I have made"

Andy Goldsworthy, Artist

"Not being able to touch is sometimes as interesting as being able to touch"

Andy Goldsworthy, Artist

"I enjoy working in a quiet and subversive way"

Andy Goldsworthy, Artist

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