Arts, Media & Entertainment: Art Quotes

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"It has been common knowledge to informed collectors that many times the finest and rarest art glass is found unsigned"

James Lafferty, Actor

"I so much appreciate it when anybody tries to make something and tries to be an artist - I'm happy to see the work"

Laurie Anderson, Musician

"There's a moment of recognition. It's that white-light kind of stuff that just "works." I love that. And you know it when it happens, whether it's a movie, music, a building, a book"

Barbara Kruger, Artist

"I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work"

Barbara Kruger, Artist

"One cannot set out to make a work that's spiritual. What is a contemporary iconography for the spiritual? Is it some fuzzy space?"

Anish Kapoor, Artist

"It's the role of the artist to pursue content"

Anish Kapoor, Artist

"I think there are different ways of being rigorous, and I am asking people to be as rigorous in their pleasure as in their criticism"

Barbara Kruger, Artist

"I, in the end, make art for myself"

Anish Kapoor, Artist

"Being an artist is a very long game. It is not a 10-year game. I hope I'll be around making art when I'm 80"

Anish Kapoor, Artist

"At the School of Visual Arts in New York, you can get your degree in Net art, which is really a fantastic way of thinking of theater in new ways"

Laurie Anderson, Musician

"I've always been a fine artist"

Joey Skaggs, Celebrity

"I've never really had a hobby, unless you count art, which the IRS once told me I had to declare as a hobby since I hadn't made money with it"

Laurie Anderson, Musician

"Even though Raster Blaster was only a video game, I was learning about designing stuff. I got good at drawing"

Bill Budge, Businessman

"My art became very public"

Joey Skaggs, Celebrity

"The figure is still the only thing I have faith in in terms of how much emotion it's charged with and how much subject matter is there"

Jim Dine, Artist

"Do some work in the theater if you can. It is the best training you can get"

Juliet Mills, Actor

"Tim Robbins had real confidence in college. He literally stole actors from the theater department at UCLA to be in his plays. The department heads got so mad at him"

Daphne Zuniga, Actress

"My goal is, of course, for this show to do well, and I would love it if people liked it"

Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Actress

"I always wanted to perform"

Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Actress

"When I came from horizontal, vertical, straight, all old stuff, then suddenly I go also again in curved lines. And there I submit to changes in the intensity of my hand leading a tool, you see"

Josef Albers, Artist

"Simultaneous contrast is not just a curious optical phenomenon - it is the very heart of painting"

Josef Albers, Artist

"I count all the time on resonance. I call on this, you see"

Josef Albers, Artist

"Ah, the creative process is the same secret in science as it is in art. They are all the same, absolutely"

Josef Albers, Artist

"But my favorite work is always my next piece"

Joey Skaggs, Celebrity

"My challenge as a satirical artist is how to present ideas to people to enable them to question and reexamine their beliefs. My hope is that my work provokes people to look at things in a new way"

Joey Skaggs, Celebrity

"I think the media made Manson, turned him into some larger than life figure and surrounded him with mystery and some shady glamour"

Maynard James Keenan, Musician

"I always knew that I wanted to be creative, that I wanted to create something"

Maynard James Keenan, Musician

"I went to the Academy and studied with Stuck, who was then a big man. But didn't interest me. I didn't know that before me there was Kandinsky and Klee, who had also studied with Stuck. He had a good name at that time"

Josef Albers, Artist

"As basic rules of a language must be practiced continually, and therefore are never fixed, so exercises toward distinct color effects never are done or over. New and different cases will be discovered time and again"

Josef Albers, Artist

"Any ground subtracts its own hue from the colors which it carries and therefore influences"

Josef Albers, Artist

"Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child"

Norman Mailer, Novelist

"I would hope they would be our fellow artists, rather than trying to emulate or idolize clowns like us"

Maynard James Keenan, Musician

"I've handled colour as a man should behave. You may conclude that I consider ethics and aesthetics as one"

Josef Albers, Artist

"I love very much to draw animals"

Josef Albers, Artist

"I have invented the Thermometer style"

Josef Albers, Artist

"As an artist, I'd choose the thing that's beautiful more than the one that's true"

Laurie Anderson, Musician

"I almost never try to make the audience comfortable. I wouldn't want that if I were in the audience"

Carter Burwell, Composer

"A lot of artists who have a certain style are expected to more or less keep doing their style. It's so easy to get into that rut of production"

Laurie Anderson, Musician

"In the theatrical works we love and admire the most, the ending of the drama generally takes place offstage"

Gustav Mahler, Composer

"Yeah, well I've always played comedy. My background is musical comedy theatre and that's really where my training is. As an actor, that's my training"

Christopher Walken, Actor

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