Arts, Media & Entertainment: Art Quotes

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"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

"Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artist is to take these handfuls of confusion and disparate things, things that seem to be irreconcilable, and put them together in a frame to give them some kind of shape and meaning"

Katherine Anne Porter, Journalist

"You instinctively discover how to entertain an audience"

Anna Held, Entertainer

"I always feel attacked when I'm asked about my painting"

Georg Baselitz, Artist

"I'm not trying to do conceptual art"

Peter Sotos, Writer

"There's a kind of dynamic quality about theater and that dynamic quality expresses itself in relation to first of all, the environment in which it's being staged; then the audience, the nature of the audience, the quality of the audience"

Wole Soyinka, Dramatist

"Personally, I feel that in my own work I wanted to look programmed or impersonal but I don't really believe I am being impersonal when I do it. And I don't think you could do this"

Roy Lichtenstein, Artist

"I'm interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art. I think it's the tension between what seems to be so rigid and cliched and the fact that art really can't be this way"

Roy Lichtenstein, Artist

"I don't think that I'm over his influence, but they probably don't look like Picassos; Picasso himself would probably have thrown up looking at my pictures"

Roy Lichtenstein, Artist

"I'm sure acting is a deeply neurotic thing to do"

Ralph Fiennes, Actor

"I still draw a lot, though. Ballpoint pen is my preferred medium"

Mackenzie Crook, Actor

"It's a visual world and people respond to visuals"

Joe Sacco, Journalist

"I try to ask visual questions. I'll ask what someone was wearing, if that seems relevant. If possible, I'll walk over the same ground that they're depicting. Of course, I can never get it precisely as it was"

Joe Sacco, Journalist

"I can't imagine working without and audience"

Bea Arthur, Actress

"I've always been a fan of advertising, I've always been a fan of television, I've loved commercials, I've loved all the jingles, I loved all the stuff"

Jon Hamm, Actor

"The best thing about being a cartoonist is to walk into a bar or someone's apartment and they don't know you, but they've taped one of your pieces up"

Ted Rall, Cartoonist

"A lot of guys, really, I get the feeling, don't care whether you like their show or not, you know. I want people to enjoy what I do, and understand what I'm doing is for their enjoyment, it's all I can ask for"

Regis Philbin, Entertainer

"Minimal art went nowhere"

Sol LeWitt, Artist

"Photography is a major force in explaining man to man"

Edward Steichen, Photographer

"You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh"

John Singer Sargent, Artist

"I do not judge, I only chronicle"

John Singer Sargent, Artist

"Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper, the photographer begins with the finished product"

Edward Steichen, Photographer

"But what is drama? Broadly speaking, it is whatever by imitative action rouses interest or gives pleasure"

George P. Baker, Writer

"Let's look at people as artists and try to support them; just because Picasso painted a couple of bad paintings, that's no reason to say he's a lousy painter"

Steve Guttenberg, Actor

"I come from a traditional theater background"

Mark Ruffalo, Actor

"The most ordinary word, when put into place, suddenly acquires brilliance. That is the brilliance with which your images must shine"

Robert Bresson, Director

"Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing"

Robert Bresson, Director

"It became clear to me that I had to push it toward a more representational way of drawing"

Joe Sacco, Journalist

"But that's one of the nice things about doing a stage show, if something doesn't work out, you have the luxury of working on it over time"

Bea Arthur, Actress

"There are different kinds of artists, and very often, I'll be very frank with you, I wish I were a different kind"

Wole Soyinka, Dramatist

"I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?"

Roy Lichtenstein, Artist

"I suppose I would still prefer to sit under a tree with a picnic basket rather than under a gas pump, but signs and comic strips are interesting as subject matter"

Roy Lichtenstein, Artist

"I kind of do the drawing with the painting in mind, but it's very hard to guess at a size or a color and all the colors around it and what it will really look like"

Roy Lichtenstein, Artist

"But usually I begin things through a drawing, so a lot of things are worked out in the drawing. But even then, I still allow for and want to make changes"

Roy Lichtenstein, Artist

"Yes. I've been asked to pose nude, but I never have, and I probably never will"

Rebecca Romijn, Actress

"Yes, you know sometimes, we started out thinking out how strange our painting was next to normal painting, which was anything expressionist. You forget that this has been thirty five years now and people don't look at it as if it were some kind of oddity"

Roy Lichtenstein, Artist

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