Arts, Media & Entertainment: Art Quotes

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"I've been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand"

Alberto Giacometti, Sculptor

"To worship the product and ignore its development leads to dilettantism and reaction"

Hans Hofmann, Artist

"Great artists have no country"

Alfred de Musset, Writer

"Their way of dancing, is nothing but a sort of stamping motion, much like the treading upon founders' bellows"

John Lawson, Explorer

"All the sculptures of today, like those of the past, will end one day in pieces... So it is important to fashion one's work carefully in its smallest recess and charge every particle of matter with life"

Alberto Giacometti, Sculptor

"I did Chicago on Broadway the year before last. That was a great opportunity and I had a blast!"

Kevin Richardson, Musician

"Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist"

Hans Hofmann, Artist

"Colors must fit together as pieces in a puzzle or cogs in a wheel"

Hans Hofmann, Artist

"Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects"

Hans Hofmann, Artist

"I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism"

Don DeLillo, Novelist

"When you look at art made by other people, you see what you need to see in it"

Alberto Giacometti, Sculptor

"While other industries have suffered, the nonprofit arts world continues to build in strength while it encourages the growth of innumerable small businesses on its periphery, thereby creating more jobs"

Louise Slaughter, Politician

"Challenge America grants go to the towns and hamlets of this sprawling country, where big touring companies will rarely go, and major actors, actresses, writers and artists may never appear in person"

Louise Slaughter, Politician

"I believe in nurturing creativity and offering a haven for creators, enabling them to develop their ideas to the fullest. With more and more talented creators being drawn to Cirque in an environment that fulfills them, these are ideal to continue developing great new shows"

Guy Laliberte, Businessman

"Like everything genuine, its inner life guarantees its truth. All works of art created by truthful minds without regard for the work's conventional exterior remain genuine for all times"

Franz Marc, Artist

"Blue is the male principle, stern and spiritual. Yellow, the female principle, gentle, cheerful and sensual. Red is matter, brutal and heavy and always the colour which must be fought and vanquished by the other two"

Franz Marc, Artist

"Would that we could at once paint with the eyes! In the long way from the eye through the arm to the pencil, how much is lost!"

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Critic

"Serious art has been the work of individual artists whose art has had nothing to do with style because they were not in the least connected with the style or the needs of the masses. Their work arose rather in defiance of their times"

Franz Marc, Artist

"There are two kinds of artists left: those who endorse Pepsi and those who simply won t"

Annie Lennox, Musician

"Man loves everything that satisfies his comfort. He hates everything that wants to draw him out of his acquired and secured position and that disturbs him. Thus he loves the house and hates art"

Adolf Loos, Architect

"My dad was dean of fine arts at the university. I was casting bronzes in the school foundry. I was using the university as a playground"

Maya Lin, Architect

"Everything in Italy that is particularly elegant and grand borders upon insanity and absurdity, or at least is reminiscent of childhood"

Alexander Herzen, Journalist

"The Potemkin city of which I wish to speak here is none other than our dear Vienna herself"

Adolf Loos, Architect

"Supply and demand regulate architectural form"

Adolf Loos, Architect

"Does it follow that the house has nothing in common with art and is architecture not to be included in the arts? Only a very small part of architecture belongs to art: the tomb and the monument. Everything else that fulfils a function is to be excluded from the domain of art"

Adolf Loos, Architect

"One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil"

Balthus, Artist

"The best way to begin is to say: Balthus is a painter of whom nothing is known. And now let us have a look at his paintings"

Balthus, Artist

"I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings"

Balthus, Artist

"You have to have conviction and completely question everything and anything you do. No matter how much you study, no matter how much you know, the side of your brain that has the smarts won't necessarily help you in making art"

Maya Lin, Architect

"There must be a reason why photographers are not very good at verbal communication. I think we get lazy"

Annie Leibovitz, Photographer

"What I end up shooting is the situation. I shoot the composition and my subject is going to help the composition or not?"

Annie Leibovitz, Photographer

"The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to look at the painters of this century"

Balthus, Artist

"Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really"

Balthus, Artist

"When I say I want to photograph someone, what it really means is that I'd like to know them. Anyone I know I photograph"

Annie Leibovitz, Photographer

"On the stage, you alone hold the key, and on the night you have to trust that the director has inspired you enough to take the material and run with it"

Greta Scacchi, Actress

"I do find acting cathartic"

Francesca Annis, Actress

"I think of many people and no one as a muse. I love the way Sofia looks always, and I love the way Kim looks always. Fashion may be part of their world, but it's not their whole life. It's not everything"

Marc Jacobs, Designer

"With a theatre audience there's always the additional sense of a sustained challenge of which I'm acutely aware and for which you need to have the tools ready - your voice, physicality, brain"

Greta Scacchi, Actress

"Warmth isn't what minimalists are thought to have"

Maya Lin, Architect

"The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical"

Maya Lin, Architect

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