Arts, Media & Entertainment: Art Quotes

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"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

"I am a real person that cares about his art and cares about what he's doing - I have a heart and a soul and want to touch people and give"

LL Cool J, Musician

"My 2005 calendar, we actually did a shoot in Lake Las Vegas. Since I had requests do some swimwear and athletic shots, we tried them and they came out good, so we inserted them into the new calendar"

Natalie Gulbis, Athlete

"People writing about me have said that I've influenced a lot of people, and there are some artists who have credited me with influencing them"

Harvey Pekar, Writer

"What to do when inspiration doesn't come; be careful not to spook, get the wind up, force things into position. You must wait around until the idea comes"

John Huston, Director

"The art of an artist must be his own art. It is... always a continuous chain of little inventions, little technical discoveries of one's own, in one's relation to the tool, the material and the colors"

Emil Nolde, Artist

"From day one, I got addicted to being on stage and getting the applause and laughter"

Zac Efron, Actor

"I think a painting should include more experience than simply intended statement"

Jasper Johns, Artist

"A visual image in the hand of an artist is merely a tool to trigger a mental image"

Roy H. Williams, Businessman

"The next day I was in my school's production of All My Sons. This was the performance where I realized something was happening between me and the audience that I hadn't recognized before!"

Kevin Spacey, Actor

"Things improved a little bit in the '80s; there was kind of a revival of alternative comics, but then they went downhill in the '90s"

Harvey Pekar, Writer

"Acting touches nerves you have absolutely no control over"

Alan Rickman, Actor

"I'm reading a book about Romaine Brooks, a wonderful painter from early in the last century"

Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Poet

"I think you can do anything with comics that you could do in just about any art form!"

Harvey Pekar, Writer

"I gave my life to the Group Theatre, because in it I'm building something for myself. What I build, I am"

Elia Kazan, Director

"A visual image is a simple thing, a picture that enters the eyes"

Roy H. Williams, Businessman

"I knew the exuberance of playing before an admiring audience and hearing my secret voice"

Elia Kazan, Director

"I don't try to guess what a million people will like. It's hard enough to know what I like"

John Huston, Director

"One likes to think that one anticipates changes in the spaces we inhabit, and our ideas about space"

Jasper Johns, Artist

"I tend to like things that already exist"

Jasper Johns, Artist

"I often find that having an idea in my head prevents me from doing something else. Working is therefore a way of getting rid of an idea"

Jasper Johns, Artist

"Do something, do something to that, and then do something to that"

Jasper Johns, Artist

"I think acting is about forgetting yourself in order to give the best of yourself. It's passing through you more than you're creating it. You're not the flower, but the vase which holds the flower"

Juliette Binoche, Actress

"I'm still trying to discover my position on my own artwork and hopefully at this exhibition someone will come and tell me. I'm open to listening to criticism"

Graham Coxon, Musician

"Well, I didn't know how to draw very well back then, in the '40s and '50s"

Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Poet

"It's a living, breathing thing, acting"

Frank Langella, Actor

"No, I didn't become disenchanted. I just couldn't paint like them"

Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Poet

"It's much easier to consume the visual image than to read something"

Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Poet

"There is no right in acting"

Frank Langella, Actor

"But when I was seven or eight, I did my first little piece of acting"

Frank Langella, Actor

"I watch actors destroy themselves by trying to get it right"

Frank Langella, Actor

"The two designs are completely different. The first is totally futuristic, the second is more classical. You can, of course, get very excited about doing something completely out of the ordinary, just like the Olympic stadium in its time. But each to his or her own taste"

Franz Beckenbauer, Athlete

"I wouldn't go up on a stage now if you paid a thousand dollars for one minute of acting. It's a nasty experience. You're up there all by yourself. You're so damn exposed"

Elia Kazan, Director

"Every picture that is successful has one little miracle in it"

Elia Kazan, Director

"Whatever I do seems artificial and false, to me"

Jasper Johns, Artist

"Most of the power of painting comes through the manipulation of space... But I don't understand that"

Jasper Johns, Artist

"I never wish for critics"

Jasper Johns, Artist

"I have no ideas about what the paintings imply about the world. I don't think that's a painter's business. He just paints paintings without a conscious reason"

Jasper Johns, Artist

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