Arts, Media & Entertainment: Art Quotes

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"Art indeed is a term referring to the social source and to the social utility of creative acts"

Laura Riding, Poet

"I decided on the spot that I would be an artist, and I assure you, it was no ordinary artist I had in mind"

Henry Ossawa Tanner, Artist

"Close your bodily eye, that you may see your picture first with the eye of the spirit. Then bring to light what you have seen in the darkness, that its effect may work back, from without to within"

Caspar David Friedrich, Artist

"The ultimate acting is to destroy yourself"

Klaus Kinski, Actor

"Not very many people can draw who are illustrators today"

John Kricfalusi, Artist

"I influenced the BG style by not being able to draw perspective. The BG artists developed cool graphic painting styles to make my bad backgrounds look like they were that way on purpose"

John Kricfalusi, Artist

"You cannot always make such big exhibitions because they consume too much time and energy"

Alva Noto, Artist

"I always try hard to arrange all media in a way so that it expresses what I want - this is not limited to one medium alone, and varies from case to case"

Alva Noto, Artist

"I can't think of a performer who is better on television than in person"

Mark Russell, Writer

"I have enjoyed acting very much because I know it's not for real!"

Gloria Stuart, Actress

"I try to decorate my imagination as much as I can"

Franz Schubert, Composer

"Variety is more than a means of avoiding boredom, since art is more than an entertainment of the senses"

Rudolf Arnheim, Artist

"In many instances, order is apprehended first of all by the senses"

Rudolf Arnheim, Artist

"It seems likely that many of the young who don't wait for others to call them artists, but simply announce that they are, don't have the patience to make art"

Pauline Kael, Critic

"In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising"

Pauline Kael, Critic

"It's too bad for us 'literary' enthusiasts, but it's the truth nevertheless - pictures tell any story more effectively than words"

William Moulton Marston, Psychologist

"Each character I play has different dimensions. I'm not interested in words that pull them together"

Alan Rickman, Actor

"All I want to see from an actor is the intensity and accuracy of their listening"

Alan Rickman, Actor

"I wanted to be on the stage, doing very important emotional roles"

Gloria Stuart, Actress

"I've always believed that the facts about dancing are more interesting than the myths, and this was a great chance for me to explore how the human body does such incredible things"

Deborah Bull, Dancer

"I think it's impossible for any of us not to find television and the political process at its best on television compelling"

Peter Jennings, Journalist

"I used to go and flatten my nose against that window and absorb all I could of his art. It changed my life. I saw art then as I wanted to see it"

Mary Cassatt, Artist

"We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it"

Hans Urs von Balthasar, Theologian

"One of the safest places to be in the world is the stage"

Frank Langella, Actor

"What an artist learns matters little. What he himself discovers has a real worth for him, and gives him the necessary incitement to work"

Emil Nolde, Artist

"Art must not serve might"

Karel Capek, Writer

"People often argue about this. Obviously one of the skills in performance is acting, and you can't expect every Romeo to really be in love with their Juliet!"

Deborah Bull, Dancer

"I think it's useful to experience other types of dance and other cultures, and the life of a classical dancer these days is certainly not all tutus! So experience of other dance forms is a good idea"

Deborah Bull, Dancer

"In the place where I was a child, there were no artists and there was no art, so I really didn't know what that meant. I think I thought it meant that I would be in a situation different than the one that I was in"

Jasper Johns, Artist

"It doesn't bother me that Seven has such an overtly sexual presence, because she has no concept of what effect that physical package would have on some male member of the crew. That's what's fun: her innocence"

Jeri Ryan, Actress

"Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably has bid farewell to our new world, a world of interests, leaving it to its own avarice and sadness"

Hans Urs von Balthasar, Theologian

"I've always looked at shoes as being immensely beautiful things"

Graham Coxon, Musician

"Acting... was the biggest charge I ever had. What other artist has it so good? Approval so quick?"

Elia Kazan, Director

"People who can pull you in and take you on a journey, as opposed to simply adding flash. Again, that feels very clinical, and I don't respond to that the way I used to"

Bill Sienkiewicz, Artist

"If you're going to establish a certain level of unreality, than you have to deal with it"

Bill Sienkiewicz, Artist

"And I've never viewed comics as assignments for the client"

Bill Sienkiewicz, Artist

"My parents taught me to believe that through the creative act, we're able to transcend and give a response to desecration"

Atom Egoyan, Director

"It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary"

David Bailey, Photographer

"I've been asked a great deal about the influence I've had with my work and it's impossible to say, you know"

Ben Shahn, Artist

"It's interesting, because in the corporate stuff there's a dichotomy there, depending on the creator. Even what, in essence, may be a very safe corporate approach, there is some stuff that is allowed to be pushed"

Bill Sienkiewicz, Artist

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