Arts, Media & Entertainment: Art Quotes

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"I use my platform for more than just myself. Art is a reflection of human emotions. To neglect the political is to neglect what essentially is your job of storytelling. I would rather be known for the content of my character than for the project that I did"

Zendaya, Actress

"Unlike the expressionists, I have never been interested in renewing the world through the vehicle of art"

Georg Baselitz, Artist

"The artist is not responsible to any one. His social role is asocial... His only responsibility consists in an attitude to the work he does"

Georg Baselitz, Artist

"I really cut my teeth on off-off-off Broadway shows"

Bea Arthur, Actress

"But theater, because of its nature (both text, images, multimedia effects), has a wider base of communication with an audience. That's why I call it the most social of the various art forms"

Wole Soyinka, Dramatist

"Fashion is like the ashes left behind by the uniquely shaped flames of the fire, the trace alone revealing that a fire actually took place"

Paul de Man, Critic

"Now that copyrights can be just about a century long, the inability to know what is protected and what is not protected becomes a huge and obvious burden on the creative process"

Lawrence Lessig, Educator

"The sterile, arid environment created by truly jarring and discordant signage and gargantuan billboards is a turnoff"

Jonathan Katz, Comedian

"Sensitive, responsive, eagerly welcomed everywhere, the drama, holding the mirror up to nature, by laughter and by tears, reveals to mankind the world of men"

George P. Baker, Writer

"As an artist, I understand that, and I value the creative input of the artist"

Charlton Heston, Actor

"I'm most at home on the stage. I was carried onstage for the first time when I was six months old"

Alan Alda, Actor

"When theater becomes a soothing middle-class thing, when it's packaged as the Night Out, then that's the death of it"

Ralph Fiennes, Actor

"I did some artistic nudes when I was I 8 with a French-Canadian photographer while I was modeling. They were beautiful shots, and they were not about nudity"

Lexa Doig, Actress

"When entertainment was begun during the Depression, it was supposed to take people's minds off reality. People could sing, dance, act or do anything. It was the type of entertainment that was available"

Tina Yothers, Actress

"I was on a founding members of the Canadian theatre movement in the late 60's till the mid 70's, and performed theatre from Halifax to Vancouver and all places in between"

Nick Mancuso, Actor

"Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms"

Roy Lichtenstein, Artist

"I find myself gravitating towards drama. It interests me. In the books I read, the paintings I like, it's always the darker stuff"

Naomi Watts, Actress

"The other great development has been in photography, but that too was influenced by Conceptual art"

Sol LeWitt, Artist

"Artists teach critics what to think. Critics repeat what the artists teach them"

Sol LeWitt, Artist

"Artists of many diverse types began using simple forms to their own ends"

Sol LeWitt, Artist

"I think the most important thing for an artist is to not worry about what anybody else thinks. You just have to do what comes from your heart and your being, and put it out there-that's true in any of the arts"

Rosanna Arquette, Actress

"Actors need bricks to play with, and in fact we rejected all the improvised fragments we had made without a plan. Improvisation without a plan is like tennis without tennis balls"

Lars von Trier, Director

"Dressing up. People just don't do it anymore. We have to change that"

John Galliano, Designer

"There's something about the theater which makes my fingertips tingle"

Wole Soyinka, Dramatist

"My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to some music, some opera, which has nothing at all to do with a volatile human condition or struggle or whatever. It enriches me as a human being"

Wole Soyinka, Dramatist

"I think we're much smarter than we were. Everybody knows that abstract art can be art, and most people know that they may not like it, even if they understand there's another purpose to it"

Roy Lichtenstein, Artist

"But when I worked on a painting, I would do it from a drawing, but I would put certain things I was fairly sure I wanted in the painting, and then collage on the painting with printed dots or painted paper or something before I really committed it"

Roy Lichtenstein, Artist

"Well, we have certainly produced great art before we did this. In my view, there are any number of areas of government which tax money should not be spent"

Charlton Heston, Actor

"I was just lucky enough to grow up in a time when they actually had drama departments in schools"

Sally Field, Actress

"You feel yourself working to show something. I've learned to distrust that feeling"

Ralph Fiennes, Actor

"I think we've all been kind of... everyone's been hurt, everyone's felt loss, everyone has exultation, everyone has a need to be loved, or to have lost love, so when you play a character, you're pulling out those little threads and turning them up a bit"

Mark Ruffalo, Actor

"Cultural tourism surveys consistently rate San Francisco's art industry as a core reason for visiting"

Gavin Newsom, Politician

"If you try to go beyond your interests just for the sake of pretensions or wealth, your art becomes less legitimate"

Vincent D'Onofrio, Actor

"It's just someone has labelled us as having a different label to do what you do. I find that labels are the worst thing in the world for artistic expression"

Ornette Coleman, Musician

"It seems to me that in the Western world, culture has something to do with appearance. A person that's out creating good stuff has got to appreciate someone when they take the time to have an appearance that goes with what they're doing"

Ornette Coleman, Musician

"It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man"

Loren Eiseley, Scientist

"My drawings at first were made altogether in watercolors, but they wanted softness and a great deal of finish"

John James Audubon, Scientist

"I'd very much like to create my own style as a photographer, even if it's just for myself"

Graeme Le Saux, Athlete

"I've had over a dozen models come in and pose fro me live for these new Cirque pieces. Cirque is a world-wide phenomenon and they are just incredible athletes. I've been to all the performances and am really fascinated by all of their productions"

Richard MacDonald, Sculptor

"Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement... for transfiguration, not for the sake of play"

Max Beckmann, Artist

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