Arts, Media & Entertainment: Art Quotes

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Beatrice Wood, Artist

"And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter"

Beatrice Wood, Artist

"Some things can be perfectly expressed by sound alone, and images would only be disturbing. Other times, sound would be possible, but visuals are much stronger and closer to what I want to express, and then again they sometimes overlap perfectly"

Alva Noto, Artist

"You buy any book on color theory today, and it's just complete poppycock. Everybody comes out of school painting pink, purple and green. The whole damn cartoon industry has pink, purple and green on their mind"

John Kricfalusi, Artist

"Most cartoons are those colors. They have been for 35 years"

John Kricfalusi, Artist

"I don t think cartoons are only for kids, but I think kids will love anything as long as it's visually interesting"

John Kricfalusi, Artist

"Trash has given us an appetite for art"

Pauline Kael, Critic

"I've done the Rolling Stones eating each other"

Ralph Steadman, Cartoonist

"People come to the theatre to be excited and uplifted - I want to inspire my audience"

Edward Hall, Lawyer

"People might say I'm difficult, but did you ever hear anyone describe a label as 'difficult'? By nature, artists should challenge. When they call you difficult, it is a reflection of the imbalance of power"

Michelle Shocked, Musician

"The generic Canadian style of illustration is different from the generic American style"

John Kricfalusi, Artist

"All artists get better with age. The more you draw, the better you're going to get"

John Kricfalusi, Artist

"Museums, I love museums"

Tony Randall, Actor

"Many of the universities have very good theatre departments these days"

Tony Randall, Actor

"And it's a crime because the great plays of history, going all the way back to the Greeks, are part of everybody's heritage. It's just like in music, Beethoven or Mozart, that's everybody's heritage"

Tony Randall, Actor

"The line that describes the beautiful is elliptical. It has simplicity and constant change. It cannot be described by a compass, and it changes direction at every one of its points"

Rudolf Arnheim, Artist

"And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color"

Beatrice Wood, Artist

"Theatre is about people, not buildings. Incalculable damage has been done to the expert talent a company needs - from wardrobe to lighting technicians"

Edward Hall, Lawyer

"We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art"

Maurice Ravel, Composer

"Because the stuff that they feed kids now, they'll have a bunch of idiots in the next millennium as far as art and culture is concerned"

Billy Higgins, Musician

"It is important for me that a certain depth and variety of both exist next to each other. I am very careful not to sacrifice the one for the other"

Alva Noto, Artist

"I've always enjoyed acting. Acting is acting"

Tony Randall, Actor

"Many actresses do that kind of shoot when they are in their early 20s but I didn't think I had anything to worry about so I decided to go for it. I was very pleased with the results and it was also nice to surprise a few people"

Sharon Stone, Actress

"When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it's bad art"

Marc Chagall, Artist

"I was a very interested arts student. I was always into that part of school and when I got into high school I went into architectural drafting. It gave me an understanding of how to build things and it's really helped me put things in perspective. With my music and my movies, to me it's all art"

Ice Cube, Musician

"I see if I can make human beings look like reptiles"

Ralph Steadman, Cartoonist

"Acting is like a Halloween mask that you put on"

River Phoenix, Actor

"I started acting when I was 10, doing musical theater. I was a brunette at that time. I was always cast in all the exotic parts"

Loni Anderson, Actress

"Some people possess talent, others are possessed by it. When that happens, a talent becomes a curse"

Rod Serling, Writer

"The artist need not know very much; best of all let him work instinctively and paint as naturally as he breathes or walks"

Emil Nolde, Artist

"Maybe my way of communicating through sign made me more in tune with my body and how it moved. Who knows? I just know when I saw a stage for the first time, I wanted to be on it"

Marlee Matlin, Actress

"I work in whatever medium likes me at the moment"

Marc Chagall, Artist

"I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him"

Pauline Kael, Critic

"Drama is action, sir, action and not confounded philosophy"

Luigi Pirandello, Playwright

"What's interesting about the process of acting is how often you don't know what you're doing"

Alan Rickman, Actor

"The theater is the only branch of art much cared for by people of wealth; like canasta, it does away with the brother of talk after dinner"

Mary McCarthy, Author

"Plays have been made of my comics"

Harvey Pekar, Writer

"I met Robert Crumb in 1962; he lived in Cleveland for a while. I took a look at his stuff. Crumb was doing stuff beyond what other writers and artists were doing. It was a step beyond Mad"

Harvey Pekar, Writer

"I decided I was going to tell these stories. I went around and met Crumb. He was the cartoonist. I started realizing comics weren't just kid stuff!"

Harvey Pekar, Writer

"The theater is where I belonged; I simply wanted to be an actress my whole life"

Loni Anderson, Actress

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