Arts, Media & Entertainment: Art Quotes

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"Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion"

Jean-Luc Godard, Director

"An artist has every right - one may even say a duty - to exhibit his productions as prominently as he can"

Jacques Barzun, Educator

"The critics tend to forget their own answers after a while"

Gina Gershon, Actress

"To so enter into it in nature and art that the enjoyed meanings of life may become a part of living is the attitude of aesthetic appreciation"

George H. Mead, Philosopher

"Art is commenting on what's going on around you in your life"

Al Jourgensen, Musician

"The artist is something of an outsider in America. I have always felt that America does not value its artists, certainly not in the sense that the Europeans do"

Carlisle Floyd, Composer

"Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity"

Christian Nestell Bovee, Author

"When I travel, I draw and paint sketches, which is great fun. And as long as you are fully aware that it has nothing to do with actual art, I think that's all right"

Arne Jacobsen, Architect

"In addressing a task, one almost always has several possible options, sometimes only a few, and they may all be practical and functional. But they lack the aesthetic aspect that raises it to architecture"

Arne Jacobsen, Architect

"If architecture had nothing to do with art, it would be astonishingly easy to build houses, but the architect's task - his most difficult task - is always that of selecting"

Arne Jacobsen, Architect

"I don't see that any buildings should be excluded from the term architecture, as long as they are done properly"

Arne Jacobsen, Architect

"Anyone who creates something new or does something different artistically is going to be singled out"

Carlisle Floyd, Composer

"The primary factor is proportions"

Arne Jacobsen, Architect

"I have no philosophy, my favourite thing is sitting in the studio"

Arne Jacobsen, Architect

"I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought!"

Janis Joplin, Musician

"I don't think there's any artist of any value who doesn't doubt what they're doing"

Francis Ford Coppola, Director

"Art depends on luck and talent"

Francis Ford Coppola, Director

"A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas"

Charles Dudley Warner, Journalist

"We grew up in a very creative environment and were exposed to the arts at a very young age, so it's not a surprise that all of us are in some form of the arts"

Spike Lee, Director

"It's the same with visual arts, you have some really cool, wonderful striking images that make you think and then again you have wonderful striking images that just take you away from the existing world for a second. And I like the latter a bit more"

Ville Valo, Musician

"To be a good artist, you have to serve the work of art and allow it to be what it is supposed to be"

Larry Wall, Author

"Some of modern engineering is necessary to good art. But I think of myself is a cultural artist"

Larry Wall, Author

"I see myself and many artists like me as the torchbearers through these dark ages"

John Zorn, Composer

"The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above"

Cyril Connolly, Journalist

"It's a weird city because the uglier the weather, the more beautiful the city. And the uglier the buildings, the more coherent the city"

Rem Koolhaas, Architect

"Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it. The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired"

Gustave Courbet, Artist

"Well, what's funny is, again, people say they believed what was going on, but again, Bob's hands are about three times bigger than his feet. So these are very caricatured"

Brad Bird, Cartoonist

"If there are similarities, it's simply because the same thoughts that occurred to other people also occurred to me. I'd be astonished if anyone could come up with any truly original powers that were at all interesting any more"

Brad Bird, Cartoonist

"What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism"

Octavio Paz, Poet

"To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty, to interpret it is his problem, and to express it his dedication"

Marlon Brando, Actor

"The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos"

Lydia M. Child, Activist

"Nevertheless, the basic forms, spaces, and appearances must be logical"

Kenzo Tange, Architect

"An actor is at most a poet and at least an entertainer"

Marlon Brando, Actor

"All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous"

Iris Murdoch, Author

"Each building has to be beautiful, but cheap and fast, but it lasts forever. That is already an incredible battery of seemingly contradictory demands. So yes, I'm definitely, perhaps, contradictory person, but I operate in very contradictory times"

Rem Koolhaas, Architect

"Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game"

Octavio Paz, Poet

"Good art is art that allows you to enter it from a variety of angles and to emerge with a variety of views"

Mary Schmich, Journalist

"But fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art"

Iris Murdoch, Author

"People who think about art as an investment are pathetic"

Walter Annenberg, Businessman

"It's street theater. You have to make it entertaining so people don't get bored and walk away"

Jason Statham, Actor

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