Arts, Media & Entertainment: Art Quotes

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"The various forms of intellectual activity which together make up the culture of an age move for the most part from different starting-points, and by unconnected roads"

Walter Pater, Critic

"Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it"

Walter Pater, Critic

"Mistakes and dead-ends often mean more to these artists than any proven problem"

Robert Smithson, Artist

"I felt like I was flying without a net. But once I realized that the audience was my partner, I was flying a jet, because the people would allow me to develop the character on stage"

Loretta Swit, Actress

"Well, I think there are artists who are more or less contemporary with Hopper who are more relevant"

Donald Judd, Artist

"The older painting - well, it does have an effect all at once, I suppose, but it's of a lesser intensity than a lot of the American work in the last ten or fifteen years"

Donald Judd, Artist

"Twin Peaks was special because it was so groundbreaking. In the early '90s, it really changed television a lot. A bunch of weird shows, like Northern Exposure, came on after that"

Sherilyn Fenn, Actress

"Maybe the one I enjoyed playing most was A Month in the Country"

Uta Hagen, Actress

"I think, by and large, the level of acting is mediocre. When I go to the theatre, I get so angry. I don't go"

Uta Hagen, Actress

"They are more beautiful than anything in the world, kinetic sculptures, perfect form in motion"

Kate Millett, Activist

"Some artists imagine they've got a hold on this apparatus, which in fact has got a hold of them. As a result, they end up supporting a cultural prison that is out of their control"

Robert Smithson, Artist

"Language thus becomes monumental because of the mutations of advertising"

Robert Smithson, Artist

"Art's development should be dialectical and not metaphysical"

Robert Smithson, Artist

"Transportation made sublimation literal. It conveyed evil to another world"

Robert Hughes, Critic

"One gets tired of the role critics are supposed to have in this culture: It's like being the piano player in a whorehouse; you don't have any control over the action going on upstairs"

Robert Hughes, Critic

"Every now and then, when you're on stage, you hear the best sound a player can hear. It's a sound you can't get in movies or in television. It is the sound of a wonderful, deep silence that means you've hit them where they live"

Shelley Winters, Actress

"Think about the photo before and after, never during. The secret is to take your time. You mustn't go too fast. The subject must forget about you. Then, however, you must be very quick"

Henri Cartier-Bresson, Photographer

"For me, what's a more important question is how we get at least the option of more diverse experiences in this media"

Will Wright, Scientist

"Because now it's the fans out there that are entertaining us, the developers, with their creations!"

Will Wright, Scientist

Ian Mckellen, Actor

"Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again"

Henri Cartier-Bresson, Photographer

"Memory is very important, the memory of each photo taken, flowing at the same speed as the event. During the work, you have to be sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've captured everything, because afterwards it will be too late"

Henri Cartier-Bresson, Photographer

"I don't think artists are made, I think they're born"

Don Van Vliet, Artist

"I've always loved movies, art and clothes"

Colleen Atwood, Designer

"In Europe, there is so much tradition, and everyone has established ideas as to what art should be and what it has always been"

Esa-Pekka Salonen, Musician

"Perfectly ordered disorder designed with a helter-skelter magnificence"

Emily Carr, Artist

"I know that the arts are important. I'm not denying that, but I can't associate myself with all the claptrap that goes on around it"

Anthony Hopkins, Actor

"The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box"

Henri Cartier-Bresson, Photographer

"But I think that's a particular kind of experience involving a certain immediacy between you and the canvass, you and the particular kind of experience of that particular moment"

Donald Judd, Artist

"I love being creative in all forms"

Loretta Swit, Actress

"Well, in any art there are a lot of technical things that you can get to like"

Donald Judd, Artist

"Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them, or to use words like beauty, excellence, art, poetry, with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have"

Walter Pater, Critic

"One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake has most"

Walter Pater, Critic

"I believe people may have a predisposition for artistic creativity. It doesn't mean they're going to make it"

Rita Dove, Poet

"For years, I had heard about the lack of interest in literature in the U.S. and I had complained about it. I failed to understand how people could fail to be moved by art"

Rita Dove, Poet

"There is something about seeing real people on a stage that makes a bad play more intimately, more personally offensive than any other art form"

Anatole Broyard, Critic

"I just can't wait to get out there on stage. There's no anxiety at all. I love being able to take this journey with the audience, because we all have a ball with it - even if we're crying"

Loretta Swit, Actress

"I recognize very much in Hopper that it does look like the United States; it looks like the 30s, and my first impressions of everything, all of which I have to deal with and which gets mixed up in my work and probably gets mixed up in everybody else's work too"

Donald Judd, Artist

"Building is just skilled labor, I suppose. It's a lot of work. I don't mind other people building them, but the way things go together and are made is interesting to me; I like that a lot"

Donald Judd, Artist

"A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires"

Hedy Lamarr, Actress

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