Arts, Media & Entertainment: Art Quotes

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"I don't like balance. Balance is not a word you can use in Versace fashion"

Donatella Versace, Designer

Donatella Versace

"I am fascinated by the human body and all its evolutions"

Jock Sturges, Photographer

Jock Sturges

"You cannot simply put something new into a place. You have to absorb what you see around you, what exists on the land, and then use that knowledge along with contemporary thinking to interpret what you see"

Tadao Ando, Architect

Tadao Ando

"I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery"

Eric Cantona, Athlete

Eric Cantona

"My buildings don't speak in words, but by means of their own spaciousness"

Thom Mayne, Architect

Thom Mayne

"Architecture is involved with the world, but at the same time it has a certain autonomy. This autonomy cannot be explained in terms of traditional logic because the most interesting parts of the work are non-verbal. They operate within the terms of the work, like any art"

Thom Mayne, Architect

Thom Mayne

"The theatre was created to tell people the truth about life and the social situation"

Stella Adler, Actress

Stella Adler

"One can't paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt"

Georgia O'Keeffe, Artist

Georgia O'Keeffe

"To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature"

Auguste Rodin, Sculptor

Auguste Rodin

"But, after all, the aim of art is to create space - space that is not compromised by decoration or illustration, space within which the subjects of painting can live"

Frank Stella, Artist

Frank Stella

"A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world"

Edmond De Goncourt, Writer

"I feel, however, that we architects have a special duty and mission... (to contribute) to the socio-cultural development of architecture and urban planning"

Kenzo Tange, Architect

"If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting"

Peter Shaffer, Playwright

Peter Shaffer

"When I was thinking about The Lion King, I said, we have to do what theater does best. What theater does best is to be abstract and not to do literal reality"

Julie Taymor, Director

"Light in Nature creates the movement of colors"

Robert Delaunay, Artist

"I have directed good actors and have gone through the process which is more detailed in theater in a way. You have to get people to stay for two or three hours in a performance. They need more talk and rehearsal than in films"

Julie Taymor, Director

"There must be some one quality without which a work of art cannot exist; possessing which, in the least degree, no work is altogether worthless"

Clive Bell, Critic

"It would follow that 'significant form' was form behind which we catch a sense of ultimate reality"

Clive Bell, Critic

"One of the main things I do is focus on ideas and what stories we decide to tell, but probably the biggest part of my job, I'd say, is working on the storyboards"

Craig McCracken, Artist

"Borne out of this, starting around the 17th century, was the Baroque era. It is my view that it is one of the architectural peak periods in western civilisation"

Harry Seidler, Architect

Harry Seidler

"Every man should follow the bent of his nature in art and letters, always provided that he does not offend against the rules of morality and good taste"

Thomas Edward Brown, Poet

"The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative"

Adolf Loos, Architect

"Art will never be able to exist without nature"

Pierre Bonnard, Artist

"Art doesn't just happen by accident. It is about pulling out new tricks and trying new things"

Nicholas Meyer, Writer

"Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society"

Walter Gropius, Architect

Walter Gropius

"Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish"

Balthus, Artist

"It is of the essence of imaginative culture that it transcends the limits both of the naturally possible and of the morally acceptable"

Northrop Frye, Critic

"Robert Crumb is an influence on how I draw, but not on the subject matter I take or my approach. One thing I do like about Crumb is that he's chronicled his age, his times, and I think that is what artists should do"

Joe Sacco, Journalist

Joe Sacco

"An old thing becomes new if you detach it from what usually surrounds it"

Robert Bresson, Director

"To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films"

Alan Moore, Writer

"That's why I do what I do, and that's why I wanted to be an actress from the time I was six years old. If I can't effectively move people, then I would prefer not to do it"

Viola Davis, Actress

"What I love about theatre is that it disappears as it happens"

Lusia Strus, Actress

"Posing nude is not making porn"

Blu Cantrell, Musician

Blu Cantrell

"Strong and convincing art has never arisen from theories"

Mary Wigman, Dancer

"A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

Oscar Wilde

"Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd, Without innovation, it is a corpse"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

Winston Churchill

"Dear God! How beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh"

Victor Hugo, Author

Victor Hugo

"Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book"

Victor Hugo, Author

Victor Hugo

"Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame"

Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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