Arts, Media & Entertainment: Art Quotes

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"I see no reason why I should tickle stones or waste time on polishing bronze"

Louise Berliawsky Nevelson, Sculptor

"The commonality between science and art is in trying to see profoundly - to develop strategies of seeing and showing"

Edward Tufte, Educator

"Real art is one of the most powerful forces in the rise of mankind, and he who renders it accessible to as many people as possible is a benefactor of humanity"

Zoltan Kodaly, Composer

"I am, to be quite honest, sick of hero stories"

Julie Taymor, Director

"But what is of great importance to me is observation of the movement of colors"

Robert Delaunay, Artist

"An artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs"

Edgard Varese, Composer

"The Romans were not inventors of the supporting arch, but its extended use in vaults and intersecting barrel shapes and domes is theirs"

Harry Seidler, Architect

"The leading edge in evidence presentation is in science; the leading edge in beauty is in high art"

Edward Tufte, Educator

"I don't have a director. The audience directs me"

Hal Holbrook, Actor

"I am an artist and a political being as well"

Robin Morgan, Activist

"Painting is by nature a luminous language"

Robert Delaunay, Artist

"If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle"

Albrecht Durer, Artist

"Art has never been a popularity contest"

James Levine, Musician

"I'd also like to do a play. I've never done theater, and constantly changing and refining a performance is something I'd like to do, even though it may sound like work to some people - and it probably is work"

Nastassja Kinski, Actress

"Right now, I am preparing for another art exhibit in November in Palm Desert"

Dwayne Hickman, Actor

"We have often been attracted to the story of the other, the outcast. And he and I just loved working together, so it just kept happening, and our relationship is completely bound up with our work. We enjoy each other's art"

Julie Taymor, Director

"I use cinematic things in a theatrical way on stage, and in film I use theatrical techniques in a cinematic way"

Julie Taymor, Director

"But I don't think there has ever been anything written on the nature of violent man as deep and as thorough as Shakespeare's Titus. I think it puts all modern movies and modern exploitations of violence to shame"

Julie Taymor, Director

"This synchronous action then will be the Subject, which is the representative harmony"

Robert Delaunay, Artist

"This communication alone, by the comparison of the antagonisms, rivalries, movements which give birth to decisive moments, permits the evolution of the soul, whereby a man realizes himself on earth. It is impossible to be concerned with anything else in art"

Robert Delaunay, Artist

"In this movement of colors I find the essence, which does not arise from a system, or an a priori theory"

Robert Delaunay, Artist

"What do you say when someone has truly inspired you? How do you express to an artist how deeply their work has affected you?"

Laura Dern, Actress

"The forms of art are inexhaustible; but all lead by the same road of aesthetic emotion to the same world of aesthetic ecstasy"

Clive Bell, Critic

"A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and in the air above, and similarly a work of art is the product of strange activities in the human mind"

Clive Bell, Critic

"Impressionism: it is the birth of light in painting"

Robert Delaunay, Artist

"First of all, I always see the sun! The way I want to identify myself and others is with halos here and there, halos, movements of color. And that, I believe, is rhythm"

Robert Delaunay, Artist

"How does one measure the success of a museum?"

Paul Getty, Businessman

"It is the mark of great art that its appeal is universal and eternal"

Clive Bell, Critic

"I will try to account for the degree of my aesthetic emotion. That, I conceive, is the function of the critic"

Clive Bell, Critic

"I'm not going to spend two years on a film or four years on an opera if I don't feel like I can put my own self into it. That doesn't mean it has to be about myself"

Julie Taymor, Director

"I received from my experience in Japan an incredible sense of respect for the art of creating, not just the creative product. We're all about the product. To me, the process was also an incredibly important aspect of the total form"

Julie Taymor, Director

"Dance is very, very old. With Louis XIV at Versailles is where ballet started"

Neve Campbell, Actress

"The idea of stardom was difficult to grasp. It was like being schizophrenic; there was her, the woman on television, and the real me"

Jessica Savitch, Journalist

"The idea of the vital movement of the world and its movement is simultaneity"

Robert Delaunay, Artist

"The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses"

Logan P. Smith, Writer

"I think all great actors - and I don't classify myself as one of them, incidentally - but I think all great actors listen well, and I've learned that from a lot of the very good actors with whom I've worked - to really listen to what people say"

John Frankenheimer, Director

"Of course, I started really being a comics fan with the underground stuff in the '70s"

Glenn Danzig, Musician

"The eye is the most refined of our senses, the one which communicates most directly with our mind, our consciousness"

Robert Delaunay, Artist

"Light comes to us by the sensibility. Without visual sensibility there is no light, no movement"

Robert Delaunay, Artist

"I used to dance when I was younger - ballet and modern dance"

Nastassja Kinski, Actress

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