Arts, Media & Entertainment: Art Quotes

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"We had maybe the greatest success of any company that I know of in Paris, and after two or three years I wanted to do this same number that we did for PBS, so we did it, and Paris had always considered us their darlings"

Katherine Dunham, Dancer

"I think of art as the highest level of creativity. To me, it is one of the greatest sources of enjoyment!"

David Rockefeller, Businessman

"Nothing they design ever gets in the way of a work of art"

Robert Hughes, Critic

"Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel"

Robert Hughes, Critic

"There's always some room for improvisation"

Satyajit Ray, Director

Robert Hughes, Critic

"I don't think Ed Sullivan had anything to do with Carib Song"

Katherine Dunham, Dancer

"A creative person has to create. It doesn't really matter what you create. If such a dancer wanted to go out and build the cactus gardens where he could, in Mexico, let him do that, but something that is creative has to go on"

Katherine Dunham, Dancer

"The most difficult thing for me is a portrait. You have to try and put your camera between the skin of a person and his shirt"

Henri Cartier-Bresson, Photographer

"The conventional notions of art have changed, and a lot of things done today are considered works of art that would have been rejected in the past"

David Rockefeller, Businessman

"I hope the Guggenheim plan will be revived"

David Rockefeller, Businessman

"I was brought up in industrial South Lancashire, down the cobbled road from where LS Lowry (1887-1976) lived and painted"

Ian Mckellen, Actor

"We don't intend to always keep this necessarily African oriented. Originally I had hoped to have African American Indian of this area, and the Appalachian of this area, but at the same time, just as we have the Haitian room, we will always have room for another exhibit"

Katherine Dunham, Dancer

"For the kind of thing that we were showing, the budget was sufficient. As we were speaking of in Haiti, we had not done that before in exactly this form and we had to have costumes for it"

Katherine Dunham, Dancer

"The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality"

Henri Cartier-Bresson, Photographer

"I studied all about Gauguin. He was a banker. He was a banker who - he used to paint on Sundays. And one day he hated himself for painting on Sundays"

Anthony Quinn, Actor

"I liked sculpting better than painting. You have more freedom in sculpting"

Anthony Quinn, Actor

"To take photographs means to recognize - simultaneously and within a fraction of a second - both the fact itself and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that give it meaning. It is putting one's head, one's eye and one's heart on the same axis"

Henri Cartier-Bresson, Photographer

"To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event"

Henri Cartier-Bresson, Photographer

"Actually, I'm not all that interested in the subject of photography. Once the picture is in the box, I'm not all that interested in what happens next. Hunters, after all, aren't cooks"

Henri Cartier-Bresson, Photographer

"Statues and pictures and verse may be grand, But they are not the Life for which they stand"

James Thomson, Musician

"Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own, that you don't know in your own soul"

Emily Carr, Artist

"I love the stage"

Anthony Quinn, Actor

"I think the point to be understood is that we're all different. I've never been a fan of theories of acting. I didn't go to drama school, so I was never put through a training that was limited by someone saying, 'This is the way you should act.'"

Ian Mckellen, Actor

"We have a group of friends of the museum who try to raise, if they can, periodically something to help us. Of course, the main thing about a building like this is its upkeep. It needs central heating and it needs central air conditioning"

Katherine Dunham, Dancer

"Macbeth is a very popular play with audiences. If you want to sell out a theater, just mount a production of Macbeth. It's a short play, it's an exciting play, it's easy to understand, and it attracts great acting"

Ian Mckellen, Actor

"When you were on stage, you could be absolutely open about your emotions and indulge them and express yourself in a way that - in real life - I wasn't doing"

Ian Mckellen, Actor

"Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you're playing through your own experience - so we're all different"

Ian Mckellen, Actor

"We photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing, and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth can make them come back again. We cannot develop and print a memory"

Henri Cartier-Bresson, Photographer

"I had to work out that it was something that could move, without having everybody in spray painted leotards"

Colleen Atwood, Designer

"You must be absolutely honest and true in the depicting of a totem, for meaning is attached to every line. You must be most particular about detail and proportion"

Emily Carr, Artist

"The artist himself may not think he is religious, but if he is sincere, his sincerity in itself is religion"

Emily Carr, Artist

"Art is that which comes to a man, and stands between himself and an implacable witness: the work"

Eduardo Chillida, Sculptor

"In Chicago, I walked in knowing what the dancers were going to need"

Colleen Atwood, Designer

"If you want someone to feel warm, you dress them in a warm color and put a warm light on them and you get the picture. Sometimes, all that needs pushing a little bit to help tell the story"

Colleen Atwood, Designer

"As a designer, you have to solve a lot of problems. Even though people are wearing clothes that are supposed to look beautiful, they'll have to do all kinds of things"

Colleen Atwood, Designer

"Some of the kimonos took as long as four to five months to make, with all the layers that go into it"

Colleen Atwood, Designer

"In real life, a lot of people at that level will have their kimonos made especially for them"

Colleen Atwood, Designer

"If the seams are showing, there is something wrong with the performance or the construction of the piece. This idea is completely at odds with our modern visual experience, because everything today is based on montage"

Esa-Pekka Salonen, Musician

"The hand has the richest articulation of space"

Eduardo Chillida, Sculptor

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