Arts, Media & Entertainment: Art Quotes

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"Once the fired stone is out of the kiln, it is still possible to mentally reconstruct it in its original form"

Andy Goldsworthy, Artist

"As with all my work, whether it's a leaf on a rock or ice on a rock, I'm trying to get beneath the surface appearance of things. Working the surface of a stone is an attempt to understand the internal energy of the stone"

Andy Goldsworthy, Artist

"The difference between a theatre with and without an audience is enormous. There is a palpable, critical energy created by the presence of the audience"

Andy Goldsworthy, Artist

"Stones are checked every so often to see if any have split, or at worst, exploded. An explosion can leave debris in the elements, so the firing has to be abandoned"

Andy Goldsworthy, Artist

"Ideas must be put to the test. That's why we make things, otherwise they would be no more than ideas. There is often a huge difference between an idea and its realisation. I've had what I thought were great ideas that just didn't work"

Andy Goldsworthy, Artist

"I soon realised that what had happened on a small scale cannot necessarily be repeated on a larger scale. The stones were so big that the amount of heat required was prohibitively expensive and wasteful"

Andy Goldsworthy, Artist

"I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic"

Andy Warhol, Artist

"Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art"

Austin O'Malley, Physicist

"I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're good or there because they're lucky"

Katharine Hepburn, Actress

"Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself"

Katharine Hepburn, Actress

"It was in the 1920s, when nobody had time to reflect, that I saw a still-life painting with a flower that was perfectly exquisite, but so small you really could not appreciate it"

Georgia O'Keeffe, Artist

"I often painted fragments of things because it seemed to make my statement as well as or better than the whole could"

Georgia O'Keeffe, Artist

"I know now that most people are so closely concerned with themselves that they are not aware of their own individuality, I can see myself, and it has helped me to say what I want to say in paint"

Georgia O'Keeffe, Artist

"I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down"

Georgia O'Keeffe, Artist

"I hate flowers - I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move"

Georgia O'Keeffe, Artist

"I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for"

Georgia O'Keeffe, Artist

"I don't very much enjoy looking at paintings in general. I know too much about them. I take them apart"

Georgia O'Keeffe, Artist

"If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings and films and me, and there I am. There's nothing behind it"

Andy Warhol, Artist

"I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market, it really stinks"

Andy Warhol, Artist

"I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning"

Andy Warhol, Artist

"I'd asked around 10 or 15 people for suggestions. Finally one lady friend asked the right question, 'Well, what do you love most?' That's how I started painting money"

Andy Warhol, Artist

"We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age"

Tony Robbins, Author

"It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found"

Wilson Mizner, Dramatist

"To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage"

Georgia O'Keeffe, Artist

"Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression. It is so spontaneous. And after singing, I think the violin. Since I cannot sing, I paint"

Georgia O'Keeffe, Artist

"I am an artist... I am here to live out loud"

Emile Zola, Novelist

"What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life"

Michel Foucault, Historian

"Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in time the truth of the work of art"

Michel Foucault, Historian

"In fact, I thought my calling was to be a painter"

Patti Smith, Musician

"An artist may have burdens the ordinary citizen doesn't know, but the ordinary citizen has burdens that many artists never even touch"

Patti Smith, Musician

"A copy of the universe is not what is required of art; one of the damned things is ample"

Rebecca West, Author

"Every one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he may be, feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches"

Goldwin Smith, Historian

"And I realized, when I'd come in to the meetings with these corrugated metal and chain link stuff, and people would just look at me like I'd just landed from Mars. But I couldn't do anything else. That was my response to the people and the time"

Frank Gehry, Architect

"It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art"

Walter Hagen, Athlete

"Besides me wanting to be an artist, I wanted to be a movie star"

Patti Smith, Musician

"No, my work does not reflect my sexual preferences, it reflects the fact that I feel total freedom as an artist"

Patti Smith, Musician

"Let's just say that I think any person who aspires, presumes, or feels the calling to be an artist has a built-in sense of duty"

Patti Smith, Musician

"Artists are traditionally resistant to labels"

Patti Smith, Musician

"Yet for my part, deeply as I am moved by the religious architecture of the Middle Ages, I cannot honestly say that I ever felt the slightest emotion in any modern Gothic church"

Goldwin Smith, Historian

"The man of genius is he, and he alone, who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it, come hell or high water"

Stendhal, Writer

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