Arts, Media & Entertainment: Art Quotes

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"We consider the triumph of art to be not in the emotional or the psychological spheres, but rather in the constructive"

El Lissitzky, Artist

"The artist constructs a new symbol with his brush. This symbol is not a recognizable form of anything that is already finished, already made, already existing in the world - it is a symbol of a new world, which is being built upon and which exists by way of people"

El Lissitzky, Artist

"The artist should not become an artisan"

El Lissitzky, Artist

"The constructor is the artist who develops the power of the machine to make it a spiritual organism"

El Lissitzky, Artist

"Man is used to the fact that there are languages which he does not at first understand and which must be learned, but because art is primarily visual he expects that he should get the message immediately and is apt to be affronted if he doesn't"

Edward T. Hall, Scientist

"You reason color more than you reason drawing... Color has a logic as severe as form"

Pierre Bonnard, Artist

"It is still color, it is not yet light"

Pierre Bonnard, Artist

"When I say artist, I mean the man who is building things - creating, molding the earth - whether it be the plains of the west - or the iron ore of Penn. It's all a big game of construction - some with a brush - some with a shovel - some choose a pen"

Jackson Pollock, Artist

"Today, painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside of themselves. Most modern painters work from a different source. They work from within"

Jackson Pollock, Artist

"Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is"

Jackson Pollock, Artist

"My paintings do not have a center, but depend on the same amount of interest throughout"

Jackson Pollock, Artist

"My painting does not come from the easel"

Jackson Pollock, Artist

"I don't work from drawings. I don't make sketches and drawings and color sketches into a final painting"

Jackson Pollock, Artist

"I was truly ignorant about art before the film"

Claire Forlani, Actress

"The burden of the past is only, I think, oppressive when you've got to go on the experience of the avant garde"

Jonathan Miller, Entertainer

"A painting that is well composed is half finished"

Pierre Bonnard, Artist

"I did a comparison of a school of architects known as the New York Five. I compared their articulation of wall surfaces, which I enjoyed very much"

Parker Stevenson, Actor

"As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings - not run across the street and ask what my mother thinks"

Ralph Bakshi, Director

"I loved my role on Who's the Boss? There is always some of me in every character that I play"

Judith Light, Actress

"The strangeness will wear off, and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art"

Jackson Pollock, Artist

"New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements... the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture"

Jackson Pollock, Artist

"He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting"

Jackson Pollock, Artist

"All still lifes are actually paintings of the world on the sixth day of creation, when God and the world were alone together, without man!"

Robert Musil, Writer

"And it was the idea that you can do a play - like a Shakespeare play, or any well-written play, Arthur Miller, whatever - and say things you could never imagine saying, never imagine thinking in your own life"

James Earl Jones, Actor

"I am not interested in slickness for the sake of slickness"

Ralph Bakshi, Director

"No other human being, no woman, no poem or music, book or painting can replace alcohol in its power to give man the illusion of real creation"

Marguerite Duras, Novelist

"Creation is dominated by three absolutely different factors: First, nature, which works upon us by its laws; second, the artist, who creates a spiritual contact with nature and his materials; third, the medium of expression through which the artist translates his inner world"

Hans Hofmann, Artist

"Art is to me the glorification of the human spirit, and as such it is the cultural documentation of the time in which it is produced"

Hans Hofmann, Artist

"We're not afraid of risking what was our success yesterday in order to explore some new field. We're adventurous. We like the challenge of unknown territory, unknown artistic field, and that's what stimulates us"

Guy Laliberte, Businessman

"Only reality interests me now and I know I could spend the rest of my life in copying a chair"

Alberto Giacometti, Sculptor

"If only someone else could paint what I see, it would be marvellous, because then I wouldn't have to paint at all"

Alberto Giacometti, Sculptor

"When the impulses which stir us to profound emotion are integrated with the medium of expression, every interview of the soul may become art. This is contingent upon mastery of the medium"

Hans Hofmann, Artist

"What goes on in abstract art is the proclaiming of aesthetic principles... It is in our own time that we have become aware of pure aesthetic considerations. Art never can be imitation"

Hans Hofmann, Artist

"The whole world, as we experience it visually, comes to us through the mystic realm of color"

Hans Hofmann, Artist

"The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take an act of super-human concentration to explain the final realization"

Hans Hofmann, Artist

"An idea can only be materialized with the help of a medium of expression, the inherent qualities of which must be surely sensed and understood in order to become the carrier of an idea"

Hans Hofmann, Artist

"A work of art is a world in itself, reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world"

Hans Hofmann, Artist

"The room has to be comfortable; the house has to look habitable"

Adolf Loos, Architect

"It does not do to use it with forms whose origin is intimately bound up with a specific material simply because no technical difficulties stand in the way"

Adolf Loos, Architect

"I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art"

Balthus, Artist

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