Arts, Media & Entertainment: Art Quotes

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"It terrified me to have an idea that was solely mine to be no longer a part of my mind, but totally public"

Maya Lin, Architect

"In art or architecture, your project is only done when you say it's done. If you want to rip it apart at the eleventh hour and start all over again, you never finish. I was one of those crazy creatures"

Maya Lin, Architect

"I was asked to be in Vogue but I said no. I didn't want to advertise make-up. I didn't want to be seen as a sex symbol"

Francesca Annis, Actress

"Part of show business is magic. You don't know how it happens"

Sammy Davis, Jr., Entertainer

"The camera makes you forget you're there. It's not like you are hiding, but you forget, you are just looking so much"

Annie Leibovitz, Photographer

"Sometimes I enjoy just photographing the surface because I think it can be as revealing as going to the heart of the matter"

Annie Leibovitz, Photographer

"My lens of choice was always the 35 mm. It was more environmental. You can't come in closer with the 35 mm"

Annie Leibovitz, Photographer

"Our photographs are filthier and our stories are more disgusting. We make no effort to be artistic"

Al Goldstein, Publisher

"I was always making things. Even though art was what I did every day, it didn't even occur to me that I would be an artist"

Maya Lin, Architect

"I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me"

Maya Lin, Architect

"I probably spent the first 20 years of my life wanting to be as American as possible. Through my 20s, and into my 30s, I began to become aware of how so much of my art and architecture has a decidedly Eastern character"

Maya Lin, Architect

"I left science, then I went into art, but I approach things very analytically. I choose to pursue both art and architecture as completely separate fields rather than merging them"

Maya Lin, Architect

"Even though I build buildings and I pursue my architecture, I pursue it as an artist. I deliberately keep a tiny studio. I don't want to be an architectural firm. I want to remain an artist"

Maya Lin, Architect

"Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture"

Maya Lin, Architect

"All my work is much more peaceful than I am"

Maya Lin, Architect

"In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view. The image may not be literally what's going on, but it's representative"

Annie Leibovitz, Photographer

"If it makes you cry, it goes in the show"

Annie Leibovitz, Photographer

"I've created a vocabulary of different styles. I draw from many different ways to take a picture. Sometimes I go back to reportage, to journalism"

Annie Leibovitz, Photographer

"I was scared to do anything in the studio because it felt so claustrophobic. I wanted to be somewhere where things could happen and the subject wasn't just looking back at you!"

Annie Leibovitz, Photographer

"I shoot a little bit, maybe two rolls, medium format, which is 20 pictures, and if it's not working, I change the position"

Annie Leibovitz, Photographer

"I feel very proud of the work from the '80s because it is very bright and colorful"

Annie Leibovitz, Photographer

"I don't think there is anything wrong with white space. I don't think it's a problem to have a blank wall"

Annie Leibovitz, Photographer

"Everyone keeps asking you for pictures, and after a while you get tired of that. I always say, they are in the archives"

Annie Leibovitz, Photographer

"Computer photography won't be photography as we know it. I think photography will always be chemical"

Annie Leibovitz, Photographer

"Coming tight was boring to me, just the face... It didn't have enough information"

Annie Leibovitz, Photographer

"At my Rolling Stones' tour, the camera was a protection. I used it in a Zen way"

Annie Leibovitz, Photographer

"A very subtle difference can make the picture or not"

Annie Leibovitz, Photographer

"It's in the nature of television to restrain the spontaneity of a live event. Things become more and more prepackaged"

Bill Condon, Director

"Every show is completely different"

Sydney Sweeney, Actress

"Art imitates life and sometimes life imitates art. It's a weird combination of elements"

Bruce Willis, Actor

"Design is everything. Everything!"

Paul Rand, Designer

"To make something look real and alive, nothing can be symmetrical because nothing in real life is symmetrical. You have to make it look organic"

John Kricfalusi, Artist

"My style is very strong poses and expressions"

John Kricfalusi, Artist

"I'd love to do some new plays"

Edward Hall, Lawyer

"But you see, the theatre is not always art in America"

Beatrice Wood, Artist

"I think it was more personal, but I certainly tried to adapt certain concepts of Surrealism"

Trevor Dunn, Musician

"I get to experiment with a lot of looks with my character, so that's really fun for me. It's like getting to paint a new canvas everyday"

Sophia Bush, Actress

"Everyone town of 100,000 in the United States should have a Classical Theater supported by the town, or the state of the county, or the Federal Government, as they have in every civilized country"

Tony Randall, Actor

"Good art theory must smell of the studio, although its language should differ from the household talk of painters and sculptors"

Rudolf Arnheim, Artist

"If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing"

Marc Chagall, Artist

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