Arts, Media & Entertainment: Art Quotes

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"Disney had such a hold on the mind of America-they were Adolf Hitler. The whole country thought Disney was some sort of god and that animation was some sort of pure thing for children"

Ralph Bakshi, Director

"Cartooning at its best is a fine art. I'm a cartoonist who works in the medium of animation, which also allows me to paint my cartoons"

Ralph Bakshi, Director

"Argumentative exhibitions bring issues to life in a way that very much irritates traditional curators who want to see their pictures valued for themselves"

Jonathan Miller, Entertainer

"I happened to happened to land in a time, in the middle '60s, that without knowing it, and without being told by the history of theater - which we now see from a historical point of view, was an explosive time"

James Earl Jones, Actor

"As early as when I was five or six, I wanted to perform"

Juliette Lewis, Actress

"Don't you know that every perfect life would mean the end of art?"

Robert Musil, Writer

"I think art education, especially in this country, which government pretty much ignores, is so important for young people"

Mikhail Baryshnikov, Dancer

"I go a lot to see young people downtown in little theaters. It's great. If you start somebody's career, it's so exciting"

Mikhail Baryshnikov, Dancer

"I cannot belong to a nonprofit organization because when you receive grants, you have to make such great compromises with your artistic plans"

Mikhail Baryshnikov, Dancer

"It's not that Shakespeare is frivolous, but you spend your time just getting people to dress up in other people's costumes and pretending to be people that they're not, and you think, after the years go by, well, what on earth was all that about?"

Jonathan Miller, Entertainer

"I am not a dark person and I don't consider myself dark"

Tim Burton, Director

"Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny"

Franz Liszt, Composer

"My interest in architecture has always been sculptural. Most of my photography is of architecture"

Parker Stevenson, Actor

"I kind of lost interest in the classical dance. I was very much interested in the modern choreography"

Mikhail Baryshnikov, Dancer

"We could ask artists from abroad to come in too, so that there could be a mixing and matching of skills from Europe, America and here, which would widen our world"

Siobhan Davies, Dancer

"There's a mass of places, really, where the idea started"

Siobhan Davies, Dancer

"Many parts of the granite statues were found, the most important of which had features close to Ramses II. The statue needs some restoration and weighs between four and five tons"

Zahi Hawass, Scientist

"Painting pictures didn't make me a lot of money. I have to eat"

Ralph Bakshi, Director

"You weren't going to the theater to change the world, but you had a chance to affect the world, the thinking and the feelings of the world"

James Earl Jones, Actor

"It's the most unglamourous glamour business in the world"

Minnie Pearl, Musician

"Dancers are stripped enough onstage. You don't have to know more about them than they've given you already"

Mikhail Baryshnikov, Dancer

"Astaire was not a sexual animal, but he made his partners look so extraordinarily related to him"

Mikhail Baryshnikov, Dancer

"On the other hand, in London, you can get an audience that desires dance to go as far as it can go: they've seen the bricks of ideas built over a period, so therefore there is an acceptance of what otherwise might seem out on a limb"

Siobhan Davies, Dancer

"Being beautiful can be a curse, especially if you want to be an artist and create"

Juliette Lewis, Actress

"Animation is tremendously resilient. Animation will recover, as art always recovers. There's always cycles of good art"

Ralph Bakshi, Director

"Too many of Disney animators, and a lot try to emulate Disney, are trying to hit what they call quality levels. They're boring mannerisms"

Ralph Bakshi, Director

"Once the object has been constructed, I have a tendency to discover in it, transformed and displaced, images, impressions, facts which have deeply moved me"

Alberto Giacometti, Sculptor

"Supreme serenity still remains the Ideal of great Art. The shapes and transitory forms of life are but stages toward this Ideal, which Christ's religion illuminates with His divine light"

Franz Liszt, Composer

"It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws"

Hans Hofmann, Artist

"Being inexhaustible, life and nature are a constant stimulus for a creative mind"

Hans Hofmann, Artist

"Art is magic... But how is it magic? In its metaphysical development? Or does some final transformation culminate in a magic reality? In truth, the latter is impossible without the former. If creation is not magic, the outcome cannot be magic"

Hans Hofmann, Artist

"I believe there are so many other disciplines and themes that we still haven't explored yet. It's infinite what we can apply our creativity to"

Guy Laliberte, Businessman

"A theatre receives recognition through its initiative, which is indispensable for first-rate performances"

Franz Liszt, Composer

"I've tried doing so, for it was never my intention to paint only with gray. But in the course of my work I have eliminated one color after another, and what has remained is gray, gray, gray!"

Alberto Giacometti, Sculptor

"Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people"

Leo Burnett, Businessman

"My aim in painting is to create pulsating, luminous, and open surfaces that emanate a mystic light, in accordance with my deepest insight into the experience of life and nature"

Hans Hofmann, Artist

"Color is a plastic means of creating intervals... Color harmonics produced by special relationships, or tensions. We differentiate now between formal tensions and color tensions, just as we differentiate in music between counterpoint and harmony"

Hans Hofmann, Artist

"It was always disappointing to see that what I could really master in terms of form boiled down to so little"

Alberto Giacometti, Sculptor

"All I can do will only ever be a faint image of what I see, and my success will always be less than my failure, or perhaps equal to the failure"

Alberto Giacometti, Sculptor

"In every work of art the subject is primordial, whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualities is only a sign of the measure of the artist's obsession with his subject; the form is always in proportion to the obsession"

Alberto Giacometti, Sculptor

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