Arts, Media & Entertainment: Art Quotes

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"Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers, and has been from the very beginning"

Rem Koolhaas, Architect

"One of our theories is that one can offset this excessive compulsion toward the spectacular with a return to simplicity"

Rem Koolhaas, Architect

"In art, there are tears that lie too deep for thought"

Louis Kronenberger, Critic

"It's what I learn from the great actors that I work with. Stillness. That's all and that's the hardest thing"

Morgan Freeman, Actor

"We say we want to create beauty, identity, quality, singularity. And yet, maybe in truth these cities that we have are desired. Maybe their very characterlessness provides the best context for living"

Rem Koolhaas, Architect

"The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure"

Cyril Connolly, Journalist

"Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature"

Cyril Connolly, Journalist

"Knowing what paint a painter uses, or having an understanding of where he was in the history of where he came from, doesn't hurt your appreciation of the painting"

Jodie Foster, Actress

"Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal"

Gustave Courbet, Artist

"I hope to live all my life for my art, without abandoning my principles one iota"

Gustave Courbet, Artist

"The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired"

Gustave Courbet, Artist

"Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things"

Gustave Courbet, Artist

"When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created"

Billy Joel, Musician

"At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art"

Brian Eno, Musician

"For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time"

Brian Eno, Musician

"Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him"

Chinua Achebe, Writer

"I am no longer afraid of becoming lost, because the journey back always reveals something new, and that is ultimately good for the artist"

Billy Joel, Musician

"Artist - musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life"

Billy Joel, Musician

"Few persons who have ever sat for a portrait can have felt anything but inferior while the process is going on"

Anthony Powell, Novelist

"If you took acting away from me, I'd stop breathing"

Ingrid Bergman, Actress

"I can do everything with ease on the stage, whereas in real life I feel too big and clumsy. So I didn't choose acting. It chose me"

Ingrid Bergman, Actress

"I cry out for order and find it only in art"

Helen Hayes, Actress

"Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting"

Elizabeth Bowen, Novelist

"Pornography is a satire on human pretensions"

Angela Carter, Novelist

"When I was doing Bean more than I've done him in the last few years, I did strange things - like appearing on chat shows in character as Mr. Bean"

Rowan Atkinson, Comedian

"We still have a tradition, certainly, in English television; it's faded a bit in the last five years, but we still have a tradition where the important thing is the quality and the challenging nature of the programming"

Rowan Atkinson, Comedian

"In TV, and in particular in commercials, you don't really need to explain very much at all - you just say he's a spy and he's a little bit theatrical and overblown and smug and he's not very good at his job"

Rowan Atkinson, Comedian

"I want to express myself in a different way. I have a performing inclination"

Rowan Atkinson, Comedian

"And, we put a lot more value, or at least I personally put a lot more value, on the creative values and creative challenges of something than the commercial necessities"

Rowan Atkinson, Comedian

"Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us"

Angela Carter, Novelist

"Although all the good arts serve to draw man's mind away from vices and lead it toward better things, this function can be more fully performed by this art, which also provides extraordinary intellectual pleasure"

Nicolaus Copernicus, Scientist

"There were a lot of choices to make, and I always picked artist. I never once picked doctor, lawyer, firemen, or something like that. It was always artist"

Maynard James Keenan, Musician

"I always knew that I wanted to be an artist"

Maynard James Keenan, Musician

"Traditionally, art is to create and not to revive. To revive: leave that to the historians, who are looking backward"

Josef Albers, Artist

"In Italy, the artist is a god. Now if the artist is a god, the scientist is likewise a god"

Josef Albers, Artist

"And I started with this: I have not painted at all my childhood. In fact, I never painted. But I helped my father who was a house painter and decorative painter. He made stage sets, he made glass paintings, he made everything"

Josef Albers, Artist

"People go to movies or listen to music because they want to be inspired"

Daphne Zuniga, Actress

"The aim of our studies is to prove that color is the most relative means of artistic expression, that we never really perceive what color is physically"

Josef Albers, Artist

"I was for years in the yellow period, you know"

Josef Albers, Artist

"The drama may be called that part of theatrical art which lends itself most readily to intellectual discussion: what is left is theater"

Robertson Davies, Novelist

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