Arts, Media & Entertainment: Art Quotes

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"French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture; like Roman design, it looks to the community"

Stephen Gardiner, Architect

"There is only one position for an artist anywhere; and that is upright"

Dylan Thomas, Poet

"In terms of the feeling of the piece, I can't think about what people are gonna think about it, what are the critics gonna say, I'm trying to bring some resolution, and realize that myself. It's a struggle; it's a process that gets us this"

Godfrey Reggio, Director

"Persons famous in the arts partake of the immortality of princes, and are upon a footing with them"

Francis I of France, Royalty

"In effect, I feel like a blind, deaf, and illiterate person working through the sensibilities and multiple, real talents of other people. Everything I do is collaborative"

Godfrey Reggio, Director

"I think that is what film and art and music do; they can work as a map of sorts for your feelings"

Bruce Springsteen, Musician

"The artist likes to seem totally responsible for his work. Often he begins to explain it, to make it appear as if it were a reasonable process"

Arthur Erickson, Architect

"The new architecture of transparency and lightness comes from Japan and Europe"

Arthur Erickson, Architect

"After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared"

Arthur Erickson, Architect

"The obsession with performance left no room for the development of the intuitive or spiritual impact of space and form other than the aesthetic of the machine itself"

Arthur Erickson, Architect

"Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom"

Arthur Erickson, Architect

"Builders eventually took advantage of the look of modernism to build cheaply and carelessly"

Arthur Erickson, Architect

"The Renaissance is studded by the names of the artists and architects, with their creations recorded as great historical events"

Arthur Erickson, Architect

"Nearly all of the advances in structural and aesthetic innovation is coming from abroad"

Arthur Erickson, Architect

"It is the mystery of the creative act that something other than our conscious self takes over"

Arthur Erickson, Architect

"For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential - the imagination"

Lawrence Durrell, Writer

"Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist"

Lawrence Durrell, Writer

"I can't just say the words, do a lot of one-liners. I love each person I play; I have to be that person. I have to do him true"

Richard Pryor, Actor

"I believe that art has the power to change the world: to inspire people, to challenge their perspectives, and to create a better future for all of us"

Mia Maestro, Actress

"Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great"

Edward Hopper, Artist

"More of me comes out when I improvise"

Edward Hopper, Artist

"If the technical innovations of the Impressionists led merely to a more accurate representation of nature, it was perhaps of not much value in enlarging their powers of expression"

Edward Hopper, Artist

"I think that zinc white has a property of scaling and cracking"

Edward Hopper, Artist

"True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure"

Auguste Rodin, Sculptor

"Broadway is a main artery of New York life - the hardened artery"

Walter Winchell, Journalist

"Well, I have a very simple method of painting"

Edward Hopper, Artist

"I can concentrate on my art"

Lou Reed, Musician

"A work of art is one through which the consciousness of the artist is able to give its emotions to anyone who is prepared to receive them. There is no such thing as bad art"

Muriel Rukeyser, Poet

"The modes of expression of men of genius differ as much as their souls, and it is impossible to say that in some among them drawing and color are better or worse than in others"

Auguste Rodin, Sculptor

"Sculpture is the art of the hole and the lump"

Auguste Rodin, Sculptor

"Why, if someone is good in one field, can they not be accepted or given the slightest opportunity to express and be creative in other fields?"

Kanye West, Musician

"My creativity and my political work are linked. I don't do this work out of guilt or out of responsibility"

Holly Near, Musician

"People see my photos and think I labor over my image and I'm this cool, brooding artist. But I'm just having fun with it"

Lenny Kravitz, Musician

"Wushu is a move in Chinese, a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art"

Jet Li, Actor

"My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature"

Edward Hopper, Artist

"In its most limited sense, modern art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period"

Edward Hopper, Artist

"I use a retouching varnish which is made in France, Libert, and that's all the varnish I use"

Edward Hopper, Artist

"If the picture needs varnishing later, I allow a restorer to do that, if there's any restoring necessary"

Edward Hopper, Artist

"The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this ideal and to me appears to lead to a purely decorative conception of painting"

Edward Hopper, Artist

"The question of the value of nationality in art is perhaps unsolvable"

Edward Hopper, Artist

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