Arts, Media & Entertainment: Art Quotes

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"The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people"

Norman Mailer, Novelist

"As an actor, you become that lighting rod between the person who made the play and the audience"

Christopher Walken, Actor

"If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens"

William Lyon Phelps, Educator

"The picture alone, without the written word, leaves half the story untold"

James Lafferty, Actor

"The lines of Pearl Art Glass are clean, certainly not cluttered"

James Lafferty, Actor

"Why do you have to translate and decode things? Just let the image be. It will have a special kind of reality that it won't once it's decoded"

Laurie Anderson, Musician

"My job is to make images and leave the decision-making and conclusion-drawing to other people"

Laurie Anderson, Musician

"You can do great things with low-tech stuff"

Laurie Anderson, Musician

"My work is more about trying to ask good questions and not trying to come up with big shows. Every fashion company is doing that, every car company is doing that"

Laurie Anderson, Musician

"Students of American glass must always keep in mind that the creations they collect are truly examples of our American culture... and thus have historical significance"

James Lafferty, Actor

"Visual presentation of our heritage in glass is needed"

James Lafferty, Actor

"One of the things I learned from working on the Olympics was, the world does not need another big multimedia show"

Laurie Anderson, Musician

"What makes the production of my work so expensive? The whole installation thing - the construction, the objects, the technology. It really adds up"

Barbara Kruger, Artist

"There are so many moments and works that influence us in what we do. Movies, music, TV and, most importantly, the profound everydayness of our lives"

Barbara Kruger, Artist

"I'm trying to deal with ideas about histories, fame, hearsay, and how public identities are constructed"

Barbara Kruger, Artist

"I think what I'm trying to do is create moments of recognition. To try to detonate some kind of feeling or understanding of lived experience"

Barbara Kruger, Artist

"I just say I'm an artist who works with pictures and words"

Barbara Kruger, Artist

"Maybe the way we have learned to look has changed in the last 25 years, and the exotic is much more acceptable. There are many artists now, younger artists, who work out of the exotic"

Anish Kapoor, Artist

"I've always felt that if one was going to take seriously this vocation as an artist, you have to get beyond that decorative facade"

Anish Kapoor, Artist

"If most American cities are about the consumption of culture, Los Angeles and New York are about the production of culture - not only national culture but global culture"

Barbara Kruger, Artist

"I mean, making art is about objectifying your experience of the world, transforming the flow of moments into something visual, or textual, or musical, whatever. Art creates a kind of commentary"

Barbara Kruger, Artist

"I feel the symbolic world is the nub of a problem for an artist"

Anish Kapoor, Artist

"Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies"

Anish Kapoor, Artist

"I think there are lots of ways to make good work. You can throw big bucks at a project and make what some would call crap, or you can work very modestly with eloquently moving results"

Barbara Kruger, Artist

"I don't necessarily think that installation is the only way to go. It's just a label for certain kinds of arrangements"

Barbara Kruger, Artist

"I think I understand something about space. I think the job of a sculptor is spatial as much as it is to do with form"

Anish Kapoor, Artist

"The eye is a very quick instrument, much quicker than the ear. The eye gets it immediately!"

Anish Kapoor, Artist

"One does not set out with the idea that I've just had a great idea and now I'm going to go and carry it out. Almost all art that's made like that doesn't go anywhere"

Anish Kapoor, Artist

"I've nothing to say"

Anish Kapoor, Artist

"A work will only have deep resonance if the kind of darkness I can generate is something that is resident in me already"

Anish Kapoor, Artist

"I am thrilled to be able to bring my vision of beauty to others who may be inspired by it"

Carol Alt, Model

"Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content, the two practices parted ways"

Barbara Kruger, Artist

"What interests me is the sense of the darkness that we carry within us, the darkness that's akin to one of the principal subjects of the sublime - terror"

Anish Kapoor, Artist

"Much of what I make is geometric, and has a kind of almost mathematical logic to the form"

Anish Kapoor, Artist

"I'm not an artist who has an agenda that's set by the work"

Anish Kapoor, Artist

"Look, we're all saddled with things that make us better or worse. This world is a crazy place, and I've chosen to make my work about that insanity"

Barbara Kruger, Artist

"There's something imminent in the work, but the circle is only completed by the viewer"

Anish Kapoor, Artist

"One of the great currents in the contemporary experience of art is that it seems to come out of the experience of the author"

Anish Kapoor, Artist

"One must not believe any of those mythologies about oneself as an artist"

Anish Kapoor, Artist

"One does afford oneself the luxury to come into the studio and all day, every day, spend one's life making aesthetic propositions. What an immense luxury!"

Anish Kapoor, Artist

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