Arts, Media & Entertainment: Art Quotes

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"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

"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

"And you know, art as commerce, doesn't really make too much sense, they don't go together"

Talib Kweli, Musician

"The real American type can never be a ballet dancer. The legs are too long, the body too supple, and the spirit too free for this school of affected grace and toe walking"

Isadora Duncan, Dancer

"Look at lots of exhibitions and books, and don't get hung up on cameras and technical things. Photography is about images"

Fay Godwin, Photographer

"Like all revolutions, the surrealist revolution was a reversion, a restitution, an expression of vital and indispensable spiritual needs"

Eugene Ionesco, Dramatist

"I like photographs which leave something to the imagination"

Fay Godwin, Photographer

"The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul"

Isadora Duncan, Dancer

"Maybe black and white is the best medium for landscapes, I don't know"

Fay Godwin, Photographer

"It was 1966 by the time I started taking pictures seriously, and books, newspapers and magazines of the time were full of great pictures that helped to inspire me"

Fay Godwin, Photographer

"I think we present extreme aspects of human behavior and hopefully get, at times, messages across, or bring issues to the table, or as we so often say, shed light into the dark crevices of human nature"

Christopher Meloni, Actor

"I take this art very seriously and passionately. I love what I do. You can't help but grow. That's not to say you don't make mistakes or make bad choices, but that's part of the art. Painters paint bad paintings"

Christopher Meloni, Actor

"I had been working in colour for ten years or so, and looked at digital and liked the possibilities it gave me"

Fay Godwin, Photographer

"A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind"

Eugene Ionesco, Dramatist

"I had great faith in Irish actors, that they'd be hip to the whole theatre thing, and they are. I had no illusions of coming over here as some kind of big shot. It's been a learning experience for me too"

Christopher Meloni, Actor

"I'm not faithful to one particular medium, and it's what I try to teach to people who work with me"

Fay Godwin, Photographer

"I don't get wrapped up in technique and the like"

Fay Godwin, Photographer

"Creation is a drug I can't do without"

Cecil B. DeMille, Producer

"Make it new is the message, not just of modern art but of modern consumerism, of which modern art is largely a mirror image"

Christopher Lasch, Historian

"Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature of this connection"

Christopher Lasch, Historian

"What I've discovered is that in art, as in music, there's a lot of truth-and then there's a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It's the moment that the audience falls in love"

Lady Gaga, Musician

"My wardrobe consists of antique clothes, many of my designs, plus shoes and shirts from Brooks Brothers and Paul Stuart"

Calvin Klein, Designer

"Nothing earth-shattering has happened in men's fashion. How much can you do with men's clothes?"

Calvin Klein, Designer

"An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose"

Langston Hughes, Poet

"I'm definitely a Polaroid camera girl. For me, what I'm really excited about is bringing back the artistry and the nature of Polaroid"

Lady Gaga, Musician

"Acting is a form of confusion"

Tallulah Bankhead, Actress

"Acting is a form of confession"

Tallulah Bankhead, Actress

"The ideas dictate everything, you have to be true to that or you're dead"

David Lynch, Director

"Television provides the opportunity for an ongoing story - the opportunity to meld the cast and the characters and a world, and to spend more time there"

David Lynch, Director

"Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St John"

Boris Pasternak, Novelist

"It is not possible to make great buildings, or great towns, beautiful places, places where you feel yourself, places where you feel alive, except by following this way. And, as you will see, this way will lead anyone who looks for it to buildings which are themselves as ancient in their form, as the trees and hills, and as our faces are"

Christopher Alexander, Architect

"I work from awkwardness. By that I mean, I don't like to arrange things. If I stand in front of something, instead of arranging it, I arrange myself"

Diane Arbus, Photographer

"I never have taken a picture I've intended. They're always better or worse"

Diane Arbus, Photographer

"You're only dealing with whatever you know, which is a very small part of it and later on it'll look like it has something to do with the period. Obviously, the artists have something to do with one another. They tend to set up certain common qualities among themselves"

Donald Judd, Artist

"The attitude and capacity of the factory, the old metal table and the new ideas of the wooden furniture quickly and naturally suggested the possibility of metal furniture"

Donald Judd, Artist

"After all, the work isn't the point; the piece is"

Donald Judd, Artist

"They look so expectant, and then they look so depressed... That was the other great lesson that The Royal Hunt of the Sun taught me. It was the profundity that masked drama can achieve, that, of course, the audience were not seeing masks moving at all"

Peter Shaffer, Playwright

"I have a small house, so I borrow everything except art, that's what I love"

Salma Hayek, Actress

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