Arts, Media & Entertainment: Art Quotes

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"My love of fine art increased - the more of it I saw, the more of it I wanted to see"

Paul Getty, Businessman

"I think I realized it was an art form at the beginning, but it took me a really long time before I was able to view what I was performing, myself, as an art form"

Patton Oswalt, Comedian

"Drama assumes an order. If only so that it might have - by disrupting that order - a way of surprising"

Vaclav Havel, Leader

"I don't understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it's a mind-altering possibility"

Jeanette Winterson, Novelist

"The urge to purge the material I come up with is, I guess, an ongoing process"

Kathryn Bigelow, Director

"When I started acting, it was really the way for me to be able to communicate"

Richard Gere, Actor

"I think theatre should always be somewhat suspect"

Vaclav Havel, Leader

"This isn't a watercolor, it's a mural"

Erich Segal, Novelist

"The interesting thing about doing a play is to find a way to make it fresh and do it as though you were doing it for the first time"

Ellen Burstyn, Actress

"I've always thought Blues Point Tower is one of my best buildings and I stand by that"

Harry Seidler, Architect

"I think acting is definitely the most fulfilling, because it's the most challenging in my mind"

Estella Warren, Model

"First, there was 2 Stupid Dogs. Then, Dexter's Laboratory. And now, Powerpuff Girls. There were a lot of little things in between, but those were the main ones"

Craig McCracken, Artist

"I've been drawing since I was about 3, and I come from a family of artists"

Craig McCracken, Artist

"The form language used by the ancient Egyptians in their structures is minimal"

Harry Seidler, Architect

"I do find myself drawn more to pieces that I feel are wrestling with the way that we're living now, what we're all going through"

Edward Norton, Actor

"Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things"

Edgar Degas, Artist

"No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters"

Edgar Degas, Artist

"In painting, you must give the idea of the true by means of the false"

Edgar Degas, Artist

"I'm a geeky toy collector, and to have toys of your own characters is unbelievably cool"

Craig McCracken, Artist

"But to me, what seems to be missing in a lot of portfolios is Cartooning"

Craig McCracken, Artist

"Architecture theory is very interesting"

David Byrne, Musician

"I like doing arts and crafts, so I would probably go to one of those fun little ceramic places and go paint some plates and do something fun like that"

Christina Milian, Musician

"You never make all things for all people and can't always pander to the broadest denominator. I keep an eye toward doing the themes that interest me. Do they move me? Interest me? Make me think? When I run across something that is provocative in an unsettling way, it appeals to me"

Edward Norton, Actor

"After World War II great strides were made in modern Japanese architecture, not only in advanced technology, allowing earthquake resistant tall buildings, but expressing and infusing characteristics of traditional Japanese architecture in modern buildings"

Harry Seidler, Architect

"After about the first Millennium, Italy was the cradle of Romanesque architecture, which spread throughout Europe, much of it extending the structural daring with minimal visual elaboration"

Harry Seidler, Architect

"To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity"

Lewis Mumford, Sociologist

"There's no question that photographs communicate more instantly and powerfully than words do, but if you want to communicate a complex concept clearly, you need words, too"

Galen Rowell, Photographer

"I quickly realized that this medium had a lot to offer someone like me. To do Disney-quality hand-drawn cartoons, you have to be a master of two art forms. Seriously, you have to be able to draw like a Leonardo da Vinci or a Michelangelo. But also you have to know movement and timing and control that through 24 frames a second!"

John Lasseter, Director

"The artist does not illustrate science (but) he frequently responds to the same interests that a scientist does"

Lewis Mumford, Sociologist

"Luckily, many other people tell me how they have had a particular landscape photograph of mine in their office or bedroom for 15 years, and it always speaks to them strongly whenever they see it"

Galen Rowell, Photographer

"If we limit our vision to the real world, we will forever be fighting on the minus side of things, working only too make our photographs equal to what we see out there, but no better"

Galen Rowell, Photographer

"I think landscape photography in general is somewhat undervalued"

Galen Rowell, Photographer

"I remember when an editor at the National Geographic promised to run about a dozen of my landscape pictures from a story on the John Muir Trail as an essay, but when the group of editors got together, someone said that my pictures looked like postcards"

Galen Rowell, Photographer

"I like to feel that all my best photographs had strong personal visions, and that a photograph that doesn't have a personal vision or doesn't communicate emotion fails"

Galen Rowell, Photographer

"I find it some of the hardest photography and the most challenging photography I've ever done. It's a real challenge to work with the natural features and the natural light"

Galen Rowell, Photographer

"I began to realise that film sees the world differently than the human eye, and that sometimes those differences can make a photograph more powerful than what you actually observed"

Galen Rowell, Photographer

"I almost never set out to photograph a landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a means of recording a mountain or an animal unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My first thought is always of light"

Galen Rowell, Photographer

"And most of my early pictures failed, but about one in a 100 somehow looked better than what I saw"

Galen Rowell, Photographer

"I have this dream life where I get to be a celebrity but I get to kind of navigate the world fairly easily because I'm always in character"

Dana Carvey, Comedian

"Comics will break your heart"

Jack Kirby, Cartoonist

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