Arts, Media & Entertainment: Art Quotes

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"When you do a cartoon based on news headlines, you do it based on incomplete information"

Ted Rall, Cartoonist

"I think Dilbert is actually a radical strip"

Ted Rall, Cartoonist

"Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings"

Marcus V. Pollio, Architect

"What draws me to the theatre, and what appealed to me about Too Much Light, is that you have no idea what's going to happen. That's the most exciting part of theatre, it's never the same. If it were, it would be like watching a movie"

Lusia Strus, Actress

"I get bored at the theatre a lot because I notice that there's not always a connection between the actors. They may be technically proficient, but they're not surprising each other. I'm thrilled by actors who make choices that are surprising"

Lusia Strus, Actress

"Often, these downplay the power of cultural imperialism - in that sense, playing the game of US interests - by reassuring us that the global success of American mass culture is not as bad as all that"

Fredric Jameson, Critic

"They've found a way to privately or within a small family group, share expressions or other images, drawings, and then gain access to some of the world's great expressions and images and make them real, make them tangible"

John Doerr, Businessman

"I am playing with the assumptions that we have in our everyday life when we are tripped up or fooled, and we learn something, that makes things exciting - I am having fun with that stuff, but you have to manage it so it doesn't get too cute, that's what I trying to work toward"

Jim McKay, Journalist

"I enjoy doing fashion shows and transforming myself into different looks for photo shoots"

Tyra Banks, Model

"And their pals vote for their stuff when they're not on the panel, and it just keeps going that way. And they tend to be very fringe artists, so anything before the 20th century is not worth considering. This is out of date"

Charlton Heston, Actor

"I was very much into buying contemporary art, but I've just decided I want to get rid of it all. Not that it's not great art, but all of a sudden my mood has changed, and I want to go back to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century masters"

Sylvester Stallone, Actor

"He can't even be at a casual read and not be creating the whole thing in his mind. I remember feeling very awed about how much he still seems to be so in love with it, and so dedicated to making everything really real and really spontaneous"

Amanda Peet, Actress

"Paul Schofield said something like, 'If I'm not acting in a play, I don't really exist.' Those weren't the exact words, but he meant it's only when I'm acting in a play that I've got something to say about the world. And then why should I talk, when people can come to see it?"

Michael Gambon, Actor

"I do readings at the public library. I just did a benefit scene night for my old acting teacher"

Mark Ruffalo, Actor

"So every creative act strives to attain an absolute status; it longs to create a world of beauty to triumph over chaos and convert it to order"

Rowan D. Williams, Clergyman

"As an actor, there's a bit of you that's decided you want to be looked at and watched, but there's a paradoxical bit that wants to run away"

Ralph Fiennes, Actor

"Fame is everywhere; the 15 minutes are now the dominant themes of our times"

Nick Mancuso, Actor

"To have been torn from the study would have been as death; my time was entirely occupied with art"

John James Audubon, Scientist

"One experiments and has to choose always the best results"

Karlheinz Stockhausen, Composer

"I create for artistic intent only and do everything from life"

Richard MacDonald, Sculptor

"These guys are just flying through the air and I'm capturing them in the split second and putting it into a work of art, via clay to the bronze"

Richard MacDonald, Sculptor

"China is important to the world in that they are a force and on the move. Exposing them to figurative art opens up a potential for artistic expression far greater than anyone would ever have dreamed possible until today. It is this very spirit of the struggle and determination to triumph that inspires creative expression"

Richard MacDonald, Sculptor

"I've been a photographer all these years... I haven't been in my own darkroom for 10 years"

Graham Nash, Musician

"We also maintain - again with perfect truth - that mystery is more than half of beauty, the element of strangeness that stirs the senses through the imagination"

Richard Le Gallienne, Poet

"Pain is such an important thing in life. I think that as an artist you have to experience suffering"

Naomi Watts, Actress

"In my case, I used the elements of these simple forms - square, cube, line and color - to produce logical systems. Most of these systems were finite; that is, they were complete using all possible variations. This kept them simple"

Sol LeWitt, Artist

"I was not interested in irony; I wanted to emphasize the primacy of the idea in making art"

Sol LeWitt, Artist

"All good criticism should be judged the way art is. You shouldn't read it the way you read history or science"

Leslie Fiedler, Critic

"The system is the work of art; the visual work of art is the proof of the system. The visual aspect can't be understood without understanding the system. It isn't what it looks like but what it is that is of basic importance"

Sol LeWitt, Artist

"The narrative of serial art works more like music than like literature"

Sol LeWitt, Artist

"Just as the development of earth art and installation art stemmed from the idea of taking art out of the galleries, the basis of my involvement with public art is a continuation of wall drawings"

Sol LeWitt, Artist

"I became interested in making books, starting about 1965, when I did the Serial Project #1, deciding that I needed a small book to show how the work could be understood and how the system worked"

Sol LeWitt, Artist

"Criticism really used to hurt me. Most of these critics are usually frustrated artists, and they criticise other people's art because they can't do it themselves. It's a really disgusting job. They must feel horrible inside"

Rosanna Arquette, Actress

"Dimension regulated the general scale of the work, so that the parts may all tell and be effective"

Marcus V. Pollio, Architect

"I realized that I wanted to play characters and do traditional theatre. I wanted to make believe again. I like putting on a costume and pretending to be someone else for a few hours, and I have a great respect for playwrights"

Lusia Strus, Actress

"Acting is very much like a child making believe. I'm not one to become a character, but I fall in love with the character. It's like having faith; you're going to be that person for a while"

Lusia Strus, Actress

"It's an awesome thing to be flung out onto the stage twice a weekend in front of 250 people, and you have to make it up as you go along"

Joel McHale, Comedian

"Sculpture will last a lot longer than painting"

Richard MacDonald, Sculptor

"I can actually feel the interior body of a dancer. I have the ability to capture a split second... I want you to be hit with whatever the essence is of this sculpture"

Richard MacDonald, Sculptor

"I hardly need to abstract things, for each object is unreal enough already, so unreal that I can only make it real by means of painting"

Max Beckmann, Artist

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