Arts, Media & Entertainment: Art Quotes

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"I have no fear of photography, as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell"

Edvard Munch, Painter

"Painting picture by picture, I followed the impressions my eye took in at heightened moments. I painted only memories, adding nothing, no details that I did not see. Hence the simplicity of the paintings, their emptiness"

Edvard Munch, Painter

"By painting colors and lines and forms seen in quickened mood, I was seeking to make this mood vibrate as a phonograph does. This was the origin of the paintings in The Frieze of Life"

Edvard Munch, Painter

"One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was, above all, a sculptor"

Edvard Munch, Painter

"I painted the picture, and in the colors, the rhythm of the music quivers. I painted the colors I saw"

Edvard Munch, Painter

"This kind of painting, with its large frames, is a bourgeois drawing-room art. It is an art dealer's art-and that came in after the civil wars following the French Revolution"

Edvard Munch, Painter

"Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?"

Edvard Munch, Painter

"I've only been interested in the artistic side of life"

Elton John, Musician

"I've got a great collection of photography"

Elton John, Musician

"If you look across the valley, you can see exactly what I mean: about four beautiful houses, and you think something is happening in each of them. It's like a mural"

Jilly Cooper, Author

"When I was an art student in the early 60's, before the acid scene began, I was smoking pot just like anyone else who was an artist"

Bill Griffith, Cartoonist

"When drugs came around I sampled them just like anybody else but I never became dependent creatively on drugs; like various cartoonists in the underground never did anything if they weren't stoned, that was the prerequisite for sitting down and drawing"

Bill Griffith, Cartoonist

"What I do is draw, but if you make an animated feature, obviously it takes a whole team of people, and Zippy is my work. I felt that turning it over to a team of people would be wrong"

Bill Griffith, Cartoonist

"Well, I've done a lot of strips since I've been here, about Zippy and me being in Connecticut"

Bill Griffith, Cartoonist

"Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr"

Bill Griffith, Cartoonist

"The down side of Americans being obsessed with pop culture is that they kind of like it light"

Bill Griffith, Cartoonist

"My biggest kick comes from the individual fans I run into. Middle-aged men ask me when we're going to do more Johnny Quest cartoons"

Joseph Barbera, Cartoonist

"Making cartoons means very hard work at every step of the way, but creating a successful cartoon character is the hardest work of all"

Joseph Barbera, Cartoonist

"I have always wished I could learn to be a potter. I love collecting ceramics; it would be so fulfilling to create something lovely"

Julie Andrews, Actress

"The arts have only ever interested a small minority of people, which acted as a kind of nursery to support artists"

Vivienne Westwood, Designer

"My son has followed fashion since he was a punk. He and I agree that fashion is about sex"

Vivienne Westwood, Designer

"I was the first person to have a punk rock hairstyle"

Vivienne Westwood, Designer

"I think some people would love to be able to make the clothes I make - and of course, I do influence them, but they keep simplifying, and minimalism doesn't quite work"

Vivienne Westwood, Designer

"Fashion is very important. It is life-enhancing and, like everything that gives pleasure, it is worth doing well"

Vivienne Westwood, Designer

"Above all, in comedy, and again and again since classical times, passages can be found in which the level of representation is interrupted by references to the spectators or to the fictive nature of the play"

Paul Watzlawick, Psychologist

"Some of these pro-drug messages come from popular culture"

John Walters, Musician

"I don't think anyone ever gets over the surprise of how differently one audience's reaction is from another"

Dick Cavett, Entertainer

"I went to an art school in Brooklyn and painted Fine Art, if that's what you'd call it for eight years in New York, until I saw the first underground comics in the East Village Other"

Bill Griffith, Cartoonist

"I hate Calvin and Hobbes. I think it's a big re-hash of formula kid strips"

Bill Griffith, Cartoonist

"I guess if you take yourself seriously as an artist, there starts either the problem or the beauty of doing good artwork"

Bill Griffith, Cartoonist

"Everybody that loves Nancy loves it in a slightly condescending way. Nancy is comics reduced to their most elemental level"

Bill Griffith, Cartoonist

"Comics is a language. It's a language most people understand intuitively"

Bill Griffith, Cartoonist

"A full, rich drawing style is a drawback"

Bill Griffith, Cartoonist

"I learned long ago to accept the fact that not everything I create will see the light of day"

Joseph Barbera, Cartoonist

"High-level, big-deal publicity has a way of getting old for me, but what never fails to thrill me is when I make personal appearances"

Joseph Barbera, Cartoonist

"Except for me, no one in my family could draw"

Joseph Barbera, Cartoonist

"Creating fantasy is a very personal thing, but you can't take the process too personally"

Joseph Barbera, Cartoonist

"Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued"

Jean Rostand, Scientist

"We respond to a drama to that extent to which it corresponds to our dreamlife"

David Mamet, Dramatist

"The product of the artist has become less important than the fact of the artist. We wish to absorb this person. We wish to devour someone who has experienced the tragic. In our society this person is much more important than anything he might create"

David Mamet, Dramatist

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