Arts, Media & Entertainment: Art Quotes

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"The model should only serve the very private function for the painter of providing the starting point for his excitement"

Lucian Freud, Artist

"I remember Francis Bacon would say that he felt he was giving art what he thought it previously lacked. With me, it's what Yeats called the fascination with what's difficult. I'm only trying to do what I can't do"

Lucian Freud, Artist

"A painter must think of everything he sees as being there entirely for his own use and pleasure"

Lucian Freud, Artist

"For hundreds of years people have talked about artists having inspiration, but often, some persons would say, write us a symphony or write us a song, on commission. The artists would come up with a masterpiece without waiting to have their muse inspire them"

Tom Glazer, Musician

"I grew up in the theater and danced ballet atrociously"

Maureen O'Hara, Actress

"When artists make art, they shouldn't question whether it is permissible to do one thing or another"

Sol LeWitt, Artist

"Minimalism wasn't a real idea - it ended before it started"

Sol LeWitt, Artist

"During the '70s I was interested in words and meaning as a way of making art"

Sol LeWitt, Artist

"All of the significant art of today stems from Conceptual art. This includes the art of installation, political, feminist and socially directed art"

Sol LeWitt, Artist

"I pray to be of service to the playwright, the audience, the other actors, and my character"

Lusia Strus, Actress

"What makes people the world over stand in line for Van Gogh is not that they will see beautiful pictures but that in an indefinable way they will come away feeling better human beings. And that is exactly what Van Gogh hoped for"

John Russell, Actor

"Suddenly I've got an overwhelming desire to surround myself with the aura of classical and Romantic art"

Sylvester Stallone, Actor

"As an actor, you want to keep your demons to some extent, but you also have to exorcise them so you can use them instead of them using you"

Skeet Ulrich, Actor

"The only legitimate artists in England are the architects"

Benjamin Haydon, Artist

"Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man"

Edward Steichen, Photographer

"Once you really commence to see things, then you really commence to feel things"

Edward Steichen, Photographer

"What are you? What am I? Those are the questions that constantly persecute and torment me and perhaps also play some part in my art"

Max Beckmann, Artist

"When I look at a body, it gives me choice of what to put in a painting, what will suit me and what won't"

Lucian Freud, Artist

"The painter's obsession with his subject is all that he needs to drive him to work"

Lucian Freud, Artist

"The painter must give a completely free rein to any feeling or sensations he may have, and reject nothing to which he is naturally drawn"

Lucian Freud, Artist

"The aura given out by a person or object is as much a part of them as their flesh"

Lucian Freud, Artist

"Photography is a very important part of my life"

Conrad Hall, Artist

"Painting and writing are solitary arts"

Conrad Hall, Artist

"I realize that every picture isn't a work of art"

Conrad Hall, Artist

"For a long time, my shows were about people walking out or about getting my gigs canceled or having the presenter not wanting to pay me"

Eric Bogosian, Actor

"To the person that deals in visualizations, I suppose there is something rather exciting about a whole set of people - they all going symmetrically, up or down, in a military sort of precision"

Leo Ornstein, Composer

"You see, anything I imagined, I could draw"

Lynn Johnston, Cartoonist

"It appears to be monumental only because it's art"

Christo, Artist

"It's a mental fake-out to myself. I make believe I'm making a new show so I forget the material I was working on and make up some fresh material"

Eric Bogosian, Actor

"I love playing other people's work. I love acting"

Eric Bogosian, Actor

"The problem is that once the rules of art are debunked, and once the unpleasant realities the irony diagnoses are revealed and diagnosed, "then" what do we do?"

David Foster Wallace, Writer

"I'm always pleased when people respond to the work"

Edward James Olmos, Actor

"If the world could remain within a frame like a painting on the wall, I think we'd see the beauty then and stand staring in awe"

Conor Oberst, Musician

"The other work we started in 1992, it is called Over the River, Project for the Arkansas River in the state of Colorado, we haven't got the permit yet. And, we are working at both of those, trying to get the permit. Therefore, we do not know which one will be realized next"

Christo, Artist

"The decision to use only the name Christo was made deliberately when we were young because it is difficult for one artist to get established and we wanted to put all the chances on our side"

Christo, Artist

"Because we do not sell photographs, we have no royalties on books, posters, postcards"

Christo, Artist

"The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work"

Berthold Auerbach, Author

"Sometimes they are a matter of luck; the photographer could not expect or hope for them. Sometimes they are a matter of patience, waiting for an effect to be repeated that he has seen and lost or for one that he anticipates"

Bill Brandt, Photographer

"Most photographers would feel a certain embarrassment in admitting publicly that they carried within them a sense of wonder, yet without it they would not produce the work they do, whatever their particular field"

Bill Brandt, Photographer

"If you respect the art and you have some talent about you, I'm on your team"

Anthony Anderson, Actor

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