Arts, Media & Entertainment: Art Quotes

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"I always feel the desire to look for the extraordinary in ordinary things; to suggest, not to impose, to leave always a slight touch of mystery in my paintings"

Balthus, Artist

"Color does not add a pleasant quality to design - it reinforces it"

Pierre Bonnard, Artist

"I wanted to make something very unique, something very different"

Shigeru Miyamoto, Designer

"The work which is manipulated looks a little boring to me. I think life is pretty strange anyway. It is wooo, wooo, wooo!"

Annie Leibovitz, Photographer

"It doesn't make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something has been said. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement"

Jackson Pollock, Artist

"Being a doctor has taught me a lot about directing. You're doing the same thing: You're reconstructing the manifold of behavior to the point where an audience says, yes, that's exactly like people I know"

Jonathan Miller, Entertainer

"Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist"

Franz Liszt, Composer

"Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore is to make those sentiments more precise"

Adolf Loos, Architect

"What comes next? Super Mario 128? Actually, that's what I want to do"

Shigeru Miyamoto, Designer

"When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing"

Jackson Pollock, Artist

"I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc"

Jackson Pollock, Artist

"But Basquiat is the first thing I've done that I'm really proud of"

Claire Forlani, Actress

"Acting is not about anything romantic, not even fantasy, although you do create fantasy"

James Earl Jones, Actor

"I admire a person who, for the love of art, is able to take off their clothes in front of a camera. But I'm not capable, I'm too cowardly for that"

Shakira, Musician

"Every good painter paints what he is"

Jackson Pollock, Artist

"What people want is not what some would call imaginative and often austere productions, but very lavish productions which cast back into the auditorium an image of their affluence"

Jonathan Miller, Entertainer

"What is the use of good painting? We want a spell cast upon the optical part of our existence! We seldom really see the world, but when we do, we become as still as a picture"

Robert Musil, Writer

"The precision of naming takes away from the uniqueness of seeing"

Pierre Bonnard, Artist

"I got into theatre very early, so yes I was surrounded by gay people quite early and frequently"

Judith Light, Actress

"Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was"

Jackson Pollock, Artist

"The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through"

Jackson Pollock, Artist

"I'm from the theater. I never wanted to be a star"

Sherry Stringfield, Actress

"The imaginary world has always been the most fun place for me to be"

Claire Forlani, Actress

"You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself"

Pierre Bonnard, Artist

"Work on the accent, it will enliven the whole"

Pierre Bonnard, Artist

"People of art should never get married and have children because it's a selfish experience"

Mikhail Baryshnikov, Dancer

"Dancing is my obsession. My life"

Mikhail Baryshnikov, Dancer

"To do art, one thing should always remember - subjects of people in misery have deep meanings"

Zhang Yimou, Director

"People in misery is what most important in art"

Zhang Yimou, Director

"The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating"

Jackson Pollock, Artist

"I'm very representational some of the time, and a little all of the time. But when you're painting out of your unconscious, figures are bound to emerge"

Jackson Pollock, Artist

"I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc. because the painting has a life of its own"

Jackson Pollock, Artist

"I spend a lot of my time trying to draw the attention of actors to the minute and subtle details of human behavior, which was the sort of thing I was looking at when I was a neurologist"

Jonathan Miller, Entertainer

"People can't draw now and don't feel it's necessary. Art students don't seem to want to draw"

Jonathan Miller, Entertainer

"Then I came in twice a week - for my own enjoyment as well as to be a guide. And then we started to apply some of the splinters of the ideas back into the piece"

Siobhan Davies, Dancer

"If I only made dances about my own experience in dance, it would always be on my track, and I don't want that, I want to be on the track of where dance can take me"

Siobhan Davies, Dancer

"It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess. Otherwise there is pure harmony, an easy give and take, and the painting comes out well"

Jackson Pollock, Artist

"I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting"

Jackson Pollock, Artist

"I did, but I'm not real fond of giving interviews"

Priscilla Presley, Actress

"I draw what I feel, which is no more than doing my job"

Ralph Bakshi, Director

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