Arts, Media & Entertainment: Art Quotes

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"Yeah, you know, you like it to come on like gangbusters, but you get into passages that are very interesting and subtle, and sometimes your original intent changes quite a bit"

Roy Lichtenstein, Artist

"I wish to please the people, but I want to make them cry, perhaps. There, I have said it"

Anna Held, Entertainer

"Costumes and scenery alone will not attract audiences"

Anna Held, Entertainer

"You could say that when you introduce humour to your work, you also step back a little from it. You create a distance"

Lars von Trier, Director

"I was a drama major also, so it's cool to cuss for meaning, but for no apparent reason, no"

Kel Mitchell, Actor

"I did a lot of theater in the South Side of Chicago"

Kel Mitchell, Actor

"We do not kill the drama, we do not really limit its appeal by failing to encourage the best in it; but we do thereby foster the weakest and poorest elements"

George P. Baker, Writer

"A clown's makeup and character, that's all he has to sell. He loves and believes in that character"

Emmett Kelly, Entertainer

"No drama, however great, is entirely independent of the stage on which it is given"

George P. Baker, Writer

"Well, first of all I'll say that I come alive best in theater"

Wole Soyinka, Dramatist

"I've never put myself in the mindset that I'm actually any good at taking pictures, I just love to shoot things that catch my eye, whether it's landscapes or just my kids"

Graeme Le Saux, Athlete

"Digital has obviously changed things a lot, but not all for the better as far as I'm concerned. Of course it's much more convenient and you're getting instant results, but to me it just lacks the finesse of a roll of film and it has a slightly superimposed feel"

Graeme Le Saux, Athlete

"I don't like things that can be reproduced. Wood isn't important in itself, but rather in the fact that objects made in it are unique, simple, unpretentious"

Georg Baselitz, Artist

"Picasso's always been such a huge influence that I thought when I started the cartoon paintings that I was getting away from Picasso, and even my cartoons of Picasso were done almost to rid myself of his influence"

Roy Lichtenstein, Artist

"I'm not really sure what social message my art carries, if any. And I don't really want it to carry one. I'm not interested in the subject matter to try to teach society anything, or to try to better our world in any way"

Roy Lichtenstein, Artist

"You cut their money back, for one thing... I go back a long way with the NEA"

Charlton Heston, Actor

"After that, I started going downtown and doing a lot of theater shows in Chicago. When you go downtown there, it's like you're in New York, it's like going to Broadway"

Kel Mitchell, Actor

"There's room for the Gap, but the joy of dressing is an art"

John Galliano, Designer

"It's a real leveller, you know, to do theatre at least once every two years"

Brenda Blethyn, Actress

"I feel I'm an actress who sings a bit"

Bea Arthur, Actress

"The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition"

Alan Alda, Actor

"Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike"

Margot Fonteyn, Dancer

"Of all the creative work produced by humans anywhere, a tiny fraction has continuing commercial value. For that tiny fraction, the copyright is a crucially important legal device"

Lawrence Lessig, Educator

"I think this confusion leads intellectuals and artists themselves to believe that the elite arts and humanities are a kind of higher, exalted form of human endeavor"

Steven Pinker, Scientist

"I was tired of illustration. You'd work so hard on a commission and it would go in to a magazine, and you'd turn the page and it was gone"

Richard MacDonald, Sculptor

"I also had this artist friend who'd paint butterflies and things like that on my head"

Persis Khambatta, Actress

"Creative people are very insecure people because they don't know whether people like them or are in awe of them. That insecurity always comes out. It makes them a better actor, I feel"

Persis Khambatta, Actress

"Politics has become entertainment"

Joe Eszterhas, Writer

"Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language"

Steven Pinker, Scientist

"I think the first thing I did was several scenes from Romeo and Juliet"

Sally Field, Actress

"As an artist, you don't think about the parabola or the arc you're describing or where you're going to ultimately end up, you're just kind of crawling around, seeing what's out there"

Michael Nesmith, Musician

"I don't do commissions and I like the freedom to create what my heart or mind tells me to"

Richard MacDonald, Sculptor

"I cannot tell you how many people, powerful people, come to my studio and they are in tears, they are so moved by what they see"

Richard MacDonald, Sculptor

"At any one time, I'll have 30 to 40 pieces going on in the studio, so this is not economically driven at all"

Richard MacDonald, Sculptor

"The drama is a great revealer of life"

George P. Baker, Writer

"Back through the ages of barbarism and civilization, in all tongues, we find this instinctive pleasure in the imitative action that is the very essence of all drama"

George P. Baker, Writer

"I didn't want to save art - I respected the older artists too much to think art needed saving. But I knew it was finished, even though, at that time, I didn't know what I would do"

Sol LeWitt, Artist

"We have a massive system to regulate creativity. A massive system of lawyers regulating creativity, as copyright law has expanded in unrecognizable forms, going from a regulation of publishing to a regulation of copying"

Lawrence Lessig, Educator

"The thinking of John Cage derived from Duchamp and Dada. I was not interested in that"

Sol LeWitt, Artist

"I think that being a producer is business and being an actor is art"

Vincent D'Onofrio, Actor

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