Arts, Media & Entertainment: Art Quotes

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"Yesterday I was thinking about the whole idea of genius and creative people, and the notion that if you create some magical art, somehow that exempts you from having to pay attention to the small things"

Bell Hooks, Critic

"Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression"

Isaac Bashevis Singer, Novelist

"Up until 35, I had a slightly skewed world view. I honestly believed everybody in the world wanted to make abstract paintings, and people only became lawyers and doctors and brokers and things because they couldn't make abstract paintings"

Frank Stella, Artist

"I want to make exalted art. A successful image has pictorial lift. I am looking for whatever is up there"

Frank Stella, Artist

"No art is any good unless you can feel how it's put together. By and large it's the eye, the hand and if it's any good, you feel the body. Most of the best stuff seems to be a complete gesture, the totality of the artist's body; you can really lean on it"

Frank Stella, Artist

"One of the great joys of life is creativity. Information goes in, gets shuffled about, and comes out in new and interesting ways"

Peter McWilliams, Writer

"I have long been convinced that my artistic ideal stands or falls with Germany. Only the Germany that we love and desire can help us achieve that ideal"

Richard Wagner, Composer

"Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution"

Theophile Gautier, Poet

"The best actors do not let the wheels show"

Milan Kundera, Writer

"My show is my statement. What I have to say is on the screen. My life is my own. I don't want to talk about my private self. Why should I?"

Flip Wilson, Comedian

"Any man who does not have his inner world to translate is not an artist"

Theophile Gautier, Poet

"Let us consider the critic, therefore, as a discoverer of discoveries"

Milan Kundera, Writer

"The television industry doesn't like to see the compexity of the world. It prefers simple reporting, with simple ideas: this is white, that's black; this is good, that's bad"

Krzysztof Kieslowski, Director

"Of course, I'd like to get beyond the concrete. But it's really difficult. Very difficult"

Krzysztof Kieslowski, Director

"Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity"

Leonard Cohen, Musician

"Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built"

Daniel Libeskind, Architect

"And then, build a bustling wonderful city of the 21st century, with a restoration of a spectacular skyline, which Manhattan, of course, needs. So, that is really the design as a whole"

Daniel Libeskind, Architect

"Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an artist"

Jose Ortega Y Gasset, Philosopher

"The Spiral Gallery may happen, too. It is not dependent on government funding!"

Daniel Libeskind, Architect

"The greatness of art is not to find what is common, but what is unique"

Isaac Bashevis Singer, Novelist

"I think you're all mad. But that's part and parcel of being an artistic genius, isn't it?"

Charles de Lint, Writer

"As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture"

Edmond De Goncourt, Writer

"No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist"

Beck, Musician

"Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude"

Beck, Musician

"An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one"

Charles Horton Cooley, Sociologist

"In just the same way, the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole symbolic attitude, which our eye perceives, which art reproduces, and which becomes for everyone the image of a man who runs"

Henri Bergson, Philosopher

"In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness"

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, Novelist

"From time immemorial, artistic insights have been revealed to artists in their sleep and in dreams, so that at all times they ardently desired them"

Paracelsus, Scientist

"Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in a memorable form - or else it is not art"

Jacques Barzun, Educator

"Our most intimate contact with civilizations long since dust has been through the art which has survived them"

Carlisle Floyd, Composer

"If something is successful with the audience, it's automatically suspect; the reverse is to say that not to reach audiences is the greatest compliment an artist can receive!"

Carlisle Floyd, Composer

"I had all the normal interests - I played basketball and I headed the school paper. But I also developed very early a great love for music and literature and the theater"

Carlisle Floyd, Composer

"America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist"

Carlisle Floyd, Composer

"The great artist is a slave to his ideals"

Christian Nestell Bovee, Author

"And when an architect has designed a house with large windows, which is a necessity today in order to pull the daylight into these very deep houses, then curtains come to play a big role in architecture"

Arne Jacobsen, Architect

"The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life"

Ralph Ellison, Author

"Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it"

Duke Ellington, Musician

"I don't know what a world would be like if you do away with sexy images"

Christie Hefner, Businessman

"But when I was twelve years old I caught my first strong glimpse of one of the fundamental forces of existence, whose votary I was destined to be for life - namely, Beauty"

Georg Brandes, Critic

"To me style is just the outside of content, and content the inside of style, like the outside and the inside of the human body. Both go together, they can't be separated"

Jean-Luc Godard, Director

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