Arts, Media & Entertainment: Art Quotes

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"The paintings may communicate even better, because people are lazy, and they can look at a painting with less effort than they can read a poem"

Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Poet

"To me, that's one of the things that I love about doing this stuff. One day I can work on this piece in watercolor, and then work on something else on the computer, or work on something else that's a completely different approach"

Bill Sienkiewicz, Artist

"So there's kind of a simultaneous aspect to pushing the boundaries, and being very safe"

Bill Sienkiewicz, Artist

"So I look at a lot of stuff now that I did, and some of it looks tame to me, but my interest in terms of what I want to say with it is a little different"

Bill Sienkiewicz, Artist

"After that I jumped, especially being in art school, to the illustrators"

Bill Sienkiewicz, Artist

"There were some extremely good teachers there that were great artists, really, in their own right. It was actually very hard to concentrate on getting down to going any work, being an art student, especially when it's a flighty thing at best"

Graham Coxon, Musician

"Comics are really my life blood in a lot of respects"

Bill Sienkiewicz, Artist

"I was primarily interested in people, and people in action, so that I did nothing photographically in the sense of doing buildings for their own sake or a still life or anything like that"

Ben Shahn, Artist

"I didn't care where my works were published"

Ben Shahn, Artist

"Bridges are perhaps the most invisible form of public architecture"

Bruce Jackson, Public Servant

"Especially with Elektra, because I'm doing a lot of the covers for the new version of Elektra"

Bill Sienkiewicz, Artist

"The character I play is a wonderful compilation of things I hate about myself, and things I love about myself, and things that I've invented to make her even more interesting than me"

Camryn Manheim, Actress

"At the same time, television theatre became more visibly active"

Andrzej Wajda, Director

"I was brought in, not in the photographic department at all, I was brought in on a thing called Special Skills. I was to do posters, pamphlets, murals, propaganda in general, you know"

Ben Shahn, Artist

"I confess that Roy was a little bit dictatorial in his editing and he ruined quite a number of my pictures, which he stopped doing later. He used to punch a hole through a negative. Some of them were incredibly valuable. He didn't understand at the time"

Ben Shahn, Artist

"Of course I realize that photography is not the technical facility as much as it is the eye, and this decision that one makes for the moment at which you are going to snap, you know"

Ben Shahn, Artist

"Now, my knowledge of photography was terribly limited"

Ben Shahn, Artist

"I became interested in photography when I found my own sketching was inadequate"

Ben Shahn, Artist

"Nothing is really media driven or committee driven, so you can actually just produce something"

Bill Sienkiewicz, Artist

"I wanted to be complete, because I figured that, visually, there was an avenue to explore with painted stuff"

Bill Sienkiewicz, Artist

"I want to say 90% of stuff out there is just crap that got made. The main point is that it got produced"

Bill Sienkiewicz, Artist

"Cartooning is an honorable thing"

Bill Sienkiewicz, Artist

"Something about glamour interested me. All my schoolbooks had drawings of women on terraces with a cocktail and a cigarette"

Bill Blass, Designer

"Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a 'universal' without patriotism, without home, who has found his people everywhere"

Chaim Potok, Author

"I think the play actually became bigger than me. No pun intended!"

Camryn Manheim, Actress

"But with comics you're reading and assimilating an image simultaneously, instead of just reading or watching the tube"

Bill Sienkiewicz, Artist

"But there's still an avenue for smaller comics and personal expression"

Bill Sienkiewicz, Artist

"So cartooning, for me, is an honorable thing. It's pushing the envelope. It's the truth of something through exaggeration"

Bill Sienkiewicz, Artist

"Kyle Baker's work is really funny, but it's also got a very clear vision"

Bill Sienkiewicz, Artist

"I remember traveling around in Arkansas with Senator Robinson, and I told him what this little trick was. He felt very much part of it and had me take pictures of people unbeknownst to them"

Ben Shahn, Artist

"I feel, having the choices I had, I felt I had more control over my own medium than I did over photography"

Ben Shahn, Artist

"In the South or in the mine country, wherever you point the camera there is a picture"

Ben Shahn, Artist

"I did take my camera along, as I felt there wouldn't be enough time to draw the things I wanted to do. I did some drawing and did a lot of photography, but I was not part of Stryker's outfit at all"

Ben Shahn, Artist

"What about Mickey Mouse? Disney tried very hard to make him a star. But Mickey Mouse is more of a symbol than a real character"

Joseph Barbera, Cartoonist

"The colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas"

Edvard Munch, Painter

"Some colors reconcile themselves to one another, others just clash"

Edvard Munch, Painter

"It was always my intention that The Frieze should be housed in a room which would provide a suitable architectural frame for it"

Edvard Munch, Painter

"In common with Michelangelo and Rembrandt, I am more interested in the line, its rise and fall, than in color"

Edvard Munch, Painter

"I build a kind of wall between myself and t he model so that I can paint in peace behind it. Otherwise, she might say something that confuses and distracts me"

Edvard Munch, Painter

"No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love"

Edvard Munch, Painter

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