Arts, Media & Entertainment: Art Quotes

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"I was so impressed with the work we were doing, and I was very involved ideologically in photography - that I arranged an exhibition at the College Art Association. The first exhibition I picked the photographs and so on, and we had an exhibition in New York"

Ben Shahn, Artist

"Some time ago, we went to Asia and took a camera along, and I began to do what I'd done even years ago doing people. I couldn't get interested in it. And I did hundreds of photographs of details of the monuments as sculpture"

Ben Shahn, Artist

"The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web"

Edwin Way Teale, Writer

"There is a brief moment when all there is in a man's mind and soul and spirit is reflected through his eyes, his hands, his attitude. This is the moment to record"

Yousuf Karsh, Photographer

"Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered"

Al Capp, Cartoonist

"My intended audience was everybody. I just want to make cartoons for human beings"

John Kricfalusi, Artist

"The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure - if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out"

Ethel Barrymore, Actress

"We felt that although they were patchy, there was a tremendous political energy in the Henry plays"

Edward Hall, Lawyer

"I was a terrible actor. The analytical part of my mind never quite let go"

Edward Hall, Lawyer

"You see, I was never stage-struck the way most girls were"

Beatrice Wood, Artist

"In theater, you have a rehearsal period and you know just who to be"

Marcia Gay Harden, Actress

"The real thing is, you should be seeing these plays in the Theatre. That's what they were written for. That's where the enjoyment is. Studying them is no enjoyment whatsoever"

Tony Randall, Actor

"All I owe the world is my art"

Sherman Alexie, Writer

"Never can the innate power of a work be hidden or locked away. A work of art can be forgotten by time; it can be forbidden and rejected, but the elemental will always prevail over the ephemeral"

Stefan Zweig, Writer

"I used to be a dancer, and for me it was a really good combination of dance and acting"

Patricia Velasquez, Actress

"What is it they want from the man that they didn't get from the work? What do they expect? What is there left when he's done with his work, what's any artist but the dregs of his work, the human shambles that follows it around?"

William Gaddis, Novelist

"My work is a game, a very serious game"

M. C. Escher, Artist

"Cartoonists are untrained artists, while illustrators are more trained"

John Kricfalusi, Artist

"As soon as I found out how compartmentalized the industry was, I realized, well, no wonder the cartoons are so bad"

John Kricfalusi, Artist

"The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage"

Ethel Barrymore, Actress

"Fundamentally I feel that there is as much difference between the stage and the films as between a piano and a violin. Normally you can't become a virtuoso in both"

Ethel Barrymore, Actress

"There's so much more to life than that, though I think that acting is fascinating because you can forget your own sorrow as you act and become somebody else"

Beatrice Wood, Artist

"And several galleries - two had asked me and I said no, because I didn't want to leave things on consignment"

Beatrice Wood, Artist

"When I define polarities in my work, I actually create the space between things. I point to the question I am actually interested in, without naming it"

Alva Noto, Artist

"The subject of my work has a lot to do with general, artistic matters, questions like: What is creativity? Where do we come from? What are our motors? What is coincidence? What is logic?"

Alva Noto, Artist

"It seemed to me that this might be a great pageant, which would give a chance for a very interesting picture"

Henry Ossawa Tanner, Artist

"Being a former dancer, classical dancer, it informed me as a human being just in terms of the grace I guess. Ballet is a very graceful form of art. You also become very aware of your body and your mind and your body is working in conjunction. That kind of helps you in acting as well. It's not only using your mind, it's like making your mind communicate this character into your body so that you can bring it to life and physicalize it"

Zoe Saldana, Actor

"My efforts have been to not only put the Biblical incident in the original setting, but at the same time give the human touch which makes the whole world kin and which ever remains the same"

Henry Ossawa Tanner, Artist

"Providing meaning to a mass of unrelated needs, ideas, words and pictures - It is the designer's job to select and fit this material together and make it interesting"

Paul Rand, Designer

"If he sees nothing within, then he should stop painting what is in front of him"

Caspar David Friedrich, Artist

"I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes"

Yves Saint Laurent, Designer

"Within every man and woman a secret is hidden, and as a photographer it is my task to reveal it if I can"

Yousuf Karsh, Photographer

"The arts, as a reflection of human existence at its highest, have always and spontaneously lived up to this demand of plenitude. No mature style of art in any culture has ever been simple"

Rudolf Arnheim, Artist

"I like to be creative"

Rihanna, Musician

"Great art picks up where nature ends"

Marc Chagall, Artist

"I will preach with my brush"

Henry Ossawa Tanner, Artist

"I wanted to make the violence beautiful in order to heighten our revulsion"

Edward Hall, Lawyer

"A good model can advance fashion by ten years"

Yves Saint Laurent, Designer

"What I want to bring back to superheroes with this project is a sense of play. Things have gotten so dreary. The heroes have gotten so ugly that even their muscles have muscles"

Frank Miller, Artist

"Here in America we're doing the most wonderful crafts"

Beatrice Wood, Artist

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