Arts, Media & Entertainment: Art Quotes

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"My work is not about my life history. It's not about the story of my neurosis"

Anish Kapoor, Artist

"I used to empty the studio out and throw stuff away. I now don't. There will be a whole series of dead ends that a year or two down the line I'll come back to"

Anish Kapoor, Artist

"Content arises out of certain considerations about form, material, context--and that when that subject matter is sufficiently far away"

Anish Kapoor, Artist

"Video games are engineered now, but the step I am trying to take, no one can engineer"

Bill Budge, Businessman

"I think a craft becomes an art form when the space of possible solutions becomes so huge that engineering can't carry you through"

Bill Budge, Businessman

"An actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand"

Laurence Sterne, Novelist

"From the beginning, the camera and I were great friends. It loves me, and I love it"

Whitney Houston, Musician

"An artist carries on throughout his life a mysterious, uninterrupted conversation with his public"

Maurice Chevalier, Actor

"Much of what passes for quality on British television is no more than a reflection of the narrow elite which controls it and has always thought that its tastes were synonymous with quality"

Rupert Murdoch, Publisher

"I'm an artist, I'm not an academic folklorist"

Terri Windling, Artist

"Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul"

Ernest Dimnet, Priest

"I'm working on a very long series of paintings based on desert folklore"

Terri Windling, Artist

"Indeed, the three prophecies about the death of individual art are, in their different ways, those of Hegel, Marx, and Freud. I don't see any way of getting beyond those prophecies"

Harold Bloom, Critic

"The eye searches for shapes. It searches for a beginning, a middle, and an end"

John Charles Polanyi, Scientist

"The critic should describe, and not prescribe"

Eugene Ionesco, Dramatist

"It's not that the creative act and the critical act are simultaneous. It's more like you blurt something out and then analyze it"

Robert Motherwell, Artist

"I was a great fan of Jim Henson"

Terri Windling, Artist

"Most painting in the European tradition was painting the mask. Modern art rejected all that. Our subject matter was the person behind the mask"

Robert Motherwell, Artist

"If you can't find your inspiration by walking around the block one time, go around two blocks-but never three"

Robert Motherwell, Artist

"This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave"

Tom Wolfe, Journalist

"It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer, the audience maintain vis-a-vis a work of art"

Hans-Georg Gadamer, Philosopher

"Wherever art appears, life disappears"

Robert Motherwell, Artist

"The power of television - it's so present in our lives, we don't even know how powerful it is"

Melissa Leo, Actress

"But we should also not forget the difference between what first motivated me and the work that is the result"

Anselm Kiefer, Artist

"Read the folklore masters. Go to galleries. Walk in the woods. That's what you need to be an artist or storyteller"

Terri Windling, Artist

"That became a big time in comic books because it's when people were starting to break out into independent stuff, the market was getting choked with speculators and everybody was trying to do their own trick covers"

Todd McFarlane, Artist

"Frankly, these days, without a theory to go with it, I can't see a painting"

Tom Wolfe, Journalist

"The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one"

Jean Racine, Dramatist

"That's probably the biggest secret of acting: If the actor believes it themselves, they can make you believe it"

Melissa Leo, Actress

"I'm experimental by nature... Always exploring my creativity"

Christina Aguilera, Musician

"Art is spiritual"

John Cusack, Actor

"A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy"

Jean Racine, Dramatist

"The applause is a celebration not only of the actors but also of the audience. It constitutes a shared moment of delight"

John Charles Polanyi, Scientist

"Kitsch is more dangerous than it looks when taken to the extreme"

John Cusack, Actor

"I think the more you expose yourself as a celebrity, the less interesting you are to watch in your work, because if you're putting yourself out there all the time, you're not holding anything back"

John Cusack, Actor

"If I ever do anything, it actually might be some fantasy elf thing or even some cute, funny thing. Just to do something a little bit out of the ordinary. I've done my superhero gig"

Todd McFarlane, Artist

"I still do some inking here and there, and I've actually got a book that I'm going to ink entirely"

Todd McFarlane, Artist

"But again, I put in my time with Marvel and DC, so there was that period of my life of trying to learn how to draw and tell stories in a proper fashion"

Todd McFarlane, Artist

"In a total work, the failures have their not unimportant place"

May Sarton, Poet

"A lot was happening, plus there were an enormous number of people in the industry that were going to conventions, so it was a pretty fun time. Also there was a lot of controversy, and I was at the forefront of some of that"

Todd McFarlane, Artist

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