Arts, Media & Entertainment: Art Quotes

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"There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence"

Rebecca West, Author

"Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience"

Rebecca West, Author

"Art is expression, and to have high expression you must have something high to express"

Goldwin Smith, Historian

"There is a spell in mediaeval Art which has had power to bewitch some people into trying, or wishing to try, or fancying that they wish to try, or making believe to fancy that they wish to try, to bring back the Middle Ages"

Goldwin Smith, Historian

"Language, after all, is only the use of symbols, and art also can only affect us through symbols"

George Henry Lewes, Philosopher

"It is unhappily true that much insincere Literature and Art, executed solely with a view to effect, does succeed by deceiving the public"

George Henry Lewes, Philosopher

"Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture"

Arthur Erickson, Architect

"The neck is kind of what's sexy in Japan, so you have to have the kimono a little bit back. It was just a whole different way of appealing to what was sexy"

Lucy Liu, Actress

"Each action of the actor on the stage should be the visible concomitant of his thoughts"

Sarah Bernhardt, Actress

"Human requirements are the inspiration for art"

Stephen Gardiner, Architect

"The exterior cannot do without the interior since it is from this, as from life, that it derives much of its inspiration and character"

Stephen Gardiner, Architect

"The chief concern of the French Impressionists was the discovery of balance between light and dark"

Stephen Gardiner, Architect

"The American order reveals a method that was largely the outcome of material necessity, as exemplified by the Colonial style and the grid"

Stephen Gardiner, Architect

"The language of the moment or, as it were, the language of the order in which we live, is the image. I felt that if I wanted to commune with the public, I should best do so through the language of image. It's a conscious embrace of a contradiction"

Godfrey Reggio, Director

"Whenever we witness art in a building, we are aware of an energy contained by it"

Arthur Erickson, Architect

"In those countries with centuries of a craft tradition behind their building methods, techniques are tightly coordinated under the direction of the architect"

Arthur Erickson, Architect

"Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building"

Arthur Erickson, Architect

"Once the curtain is raised, the actor is, ceases to belong to himself. He belongs to his character, to his author, to his public. He must do the impossible to identify himself with the first, not to betray the second, and not to disappoint the third"

Sarah Bernhardt, Actress

"The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions"

Sarah Bernhardt, Actress

"For the theatre one needs long arms... An artiste with short arms can never make a fine gesture"

Sarah Bernhardt, Actress

"Not even the most powerful organs of the press, including Time, Newsweek, and The New York Times, can discover a new artist or certify his work and make it stick. They can only bring you the scores"

Thomas Wolfe, Novelist

"The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning"

Arthur Erickson, Architect

"The great dream merchant, Disney, was a success because make-believe was what everyone seemed to need in a spiritually empty land"

Arthur Erickson, Architect

"Profit and bottom line, the contemporary mantra, eliminates the very source of architectural expression"

Arthur Erickson, Architect

"Inspiration in Science may have to do with ideas, but not in Art. In Art it is in the senses that are instinctively responsive to the medium of expression"

Arthur Erickson, Architect

"What matters poverty? What matters anything to him who is enamoured of our art? Does he not carry in himself every joy and every beauty?"

Sarah Bernhardt, Actress

"To be a good actor... it is necessary to have a firmly tempered soul, to be surprised at nothing, to resume each minute the laborious task that has barely just been finished"

Sarah Bernhardt, Actress

"The actor is too prone to exaggerate his powers; he wants to play Hamlet when his appearance is more suitable to King Lear"

Sarah Bernhardt, Actress

"He who is incapable of feeling strong passions, of being shaken by anger, of living in every sense of the word, will never be a good actor"

Sarah Bernhardt, Actress

"I was really into dancing, taking six classes a week, and my real dream was to be in a Broadway show"

Natalie Portman, Actress

"Art distills sensations, and embodies it with enhanced meaning"

Miguel de Unamuno, Educator

"The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public"

Paul Gauguin, Artist

"In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters"

Paul Gauguin, Artist

"The Romans used every housing form known today, and they have a remarkably modern look"

Stephen Gardiner, Architect

"It is hardly surprising that the Georgian domestic style emerges as the most remarkable in the world"

Stephen Gardiner, Architect

"The center of Western culture is Greece, and we have never lost our ties with the architectural concepts of that ancient civilization"

Stephen Gardiner, Architect

"Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community"

Stephen Gardiner, Architect

"What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is: first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry"

Salman Rushdie, Novelist

"Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England"

Stephen Gardiner, Architect

"The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail"

Stephen Gardiner, Architect

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