Arts, Media & Entertainment: Art Quotes

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"There is no joy so great as that of reporting that a good play has come to town"

Brooks Atkinson, Critic

"I've always thought of the T-shirt as the Alpha and Omega of the fashion alphabet"

Giorgio Armani, Designer

"It was regarded as a responsibility of the BBC to provide programs which have a broad spectrum of interest, and if there was a hole in that spectrum, then the BBC would fill it"

David Attenborough, Journalist

"There was a village watercolour society and they'd come and paint in my field. I watched them from the window, the way they would struggle this way and that to find the perfect moment. God has made every angle on that beautiful, and I felt that tremendously"

Nicolas Roeg, Director

"Children's finger-painting came under the arts, but movies didn't"

Nicolas Roeg, Director

"Sometimes creativity is a compulsion, not an ambition"

Edward Norton, Actor

"If the video is boring, it doesn't matter how much money you spent"

MrBeast, Celebrity

"Public discussions are part of what it takes to make changes in the trillions of graphics published each year"

Edward Tufte, Educator

"We all agree now - by "we" I mean intelligent people under sixty - that a work of art is like a rose. A rose is not beautiful because it is like something else. Neither is a work of art. Roses and works of art are beautiful in themselves"

Clive Bell, Critic

"Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age"

Clive Bell, Critic

"You know, I went to Oberlin. At that time, grades were - you elected to have them or not. It was all of that era where grades were out the window. But I did very well in school. I didn't really study the arts; I practiced the arts"

Julie Taymor, Director

"It is this research into pure painting that is the problem at the present moment. I do not know any painters in Paris who are really searching for this ideal world"

Robert Delaunay, Artist

"Butte was once a grand city. To me, that city is like one big stage for Edward Hopper. You could put your camera anywhere, and you felt you were looking at his paintings"

Wim Wenders, Director

"I hold that the perfection of form and beauty is contained in the sum of all men"

Albrecht Durer, Artist

"All sensitive people agree that there is a peculiar emotion provoked by works of art"

Clive Bell, Critic

"What I don't have in theater is editing"

Julie Taymor, Director

"Nature engenders the science of painting"

Robert Delaunay, Artist

"If Art relates itself to an Object, it becomes descriptive, divisionist, literary"

Robert Delaunay, Artist

"If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed"

Vaclav Havel, Leader

"The downfall of the industry seems to actually be good for art. I think the industry will find their way once the focus shifts from its greed-based origins, downsizes, and begins to support creative visions that speak to our times and shifting ideals"

Saul Williams, Musician

"I am not interested in genres. I am interested in doing the best work I can in whatever medium"

Jeanette Winterson, Novelist

"Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way"

Edward de Bono, Psychologist

"I've always been inspired by a lot of work coming out of the UK"

Saul Williams, Musician

"Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter"

David Byrne, Musician

"I knew I wanted to have a doll of myself on the cover. I thought, I wanna see myself as a Ken doll"

David Byrne, Musician

"Frank Lloyd Wright... His things were beautiful but not very functional"

David Byrne, Musician

"An image is a stop the mind makes between uncertainties"

Djuna Barnes, Novelist

"The reason they look the way they do is that the first drawing I did of them was really small, so I didn't draw fingers, nose, ears, etc., and this drawing had a certain appeal that I really liked"

Craig McCracken, Artist

"For a long time I wanted to be a comic strip artist, but when I started doing them in my teens, they were getting really elaborate with tons of poses and a lot of information"

Craig McCracken, Artist

"One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art, nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement"

Edgar Degas, Artist

"To some extent I happily don't know what I'm doing. I feel that it's an artist's responsibility to trust that"

David Byrne, Musician

"I subscribe to the myth that an artist's creativity comes from torment. Once that's fixed, what do you draw on?"

David Byrne, Musician

"I always felt that acting was an escape, like having the secret key to every door and permission to go into any realm and soak it up. I enjoy that free pass"

Edward Norton, Actor

"Well, for one thing, the executives in charge at Cartoon Network are cartoon fans. I mean, these are people who grew up loving animation and loving cartoons, and the only difference between them and me is they don't know how to draw"

Craig McCracken, Artist

"The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor"

Paul Getty, Businessman

"Vision is the true creative rhythm"

Robert Delaunay, Artist

"Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint"

Robert Delaunay, Artist

"We have no other means of recognising a work of art than our feeling for it"

Clive Bell, Critic

"Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems, we split the possibilities to make good building art"

Alvar Aalto, Architect

"I think most artists create out of despair. The very nature of creation is not a performing glory on the outside, it's a painful, difficult search within"

Louise Berliawsky Nevelson, Sculptor

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