Arts, Media & Entertainment: Art Quotes

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"The paintings that really excite me have an erotic element or side to them, irrespective of subject matter"

Lucian Freud, Artist

"And, since the model he faithfully copies is not going to be hung up next to the picture, since the picture is going to be there on its own, it is of no interest whether it is an accurate copy of the model"

Lucian Freud, Artist

"What it all boils down to for me is having the enthusiasm to do something for enjoyment and being stimulated by what's around you. That's what photography does for me"

Graeme Le Saux, Athlete

"I was pleased that two very disparate photographs, two images that each worked in their own way had appealed enough to other people for them to buy them. I was also relieved they weren't the last ones purchased, and that they sold for a pound more than the frame was worth"

Graeme Le Saux, Athlete

"I'm an artist, and the need to get inside myself and be creative and be other people is a part of who I am. I don't imagine I'll abandon that completely"

Gwyneth Paltrow, Actress

"I believe that the reason why I love painting so much is that it forces one to be objective. There is nothing I hate more than sentimentality"

Max Beckmann, Artist

"When you're making pictures out of heartfelt passion, it hurts when someone calls them a calculated business move"

Michael Douglas, Actor

"The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real"

Lucian Freud, Artist

"I am only interested in painting the actual person, in doing a painting of them, not in using them to some ulterior end of art. For me, to use someone doing something not native to them would be wrong"

Lucian Freud, Artist

"Full, saturated colours have an emotional significance I want to avoid"

Lucian Freud, Artist

"Also, since art is a vehicle for the transmission of ideas through form, the reproduction of the form only reinforces the concept. It is the idea that is being reproduced. Anyone who understands the work of art owns it. We all own the Mona Lisa"

Sol LeWitt, Artist

"I was in Florida with Burt Stern, the photographer who shot Marilyn Monroe on the beach with a sweater, and we smoked a joint. The bathing suit kept coming off in the water, and I just ripped it off. I was very comfortable being naked"

Rosanna Arquette, Actress

"Manipulating shadows and tonality is like writing music or a poem"

Conrad Hall, Artist

"When you make work, your goal might not be first and foremost to have as many people as possible see it, but it might be more about honing your craft as a storyteller or making art, but, there's no doubt about it, you want lots of people to see it"

Jim McKay, Journalist

"There is a connection between me and the collectors, and as admirers of the work they tell me about the differences the pieces are able to make in their lives on a daily basis"

Richard MacDonald, Sculptor

"There are very few people who do what I do"

Richard MacDonald, Sculptor

"My goal is to make fine art, and fine art comes from the soul. If you have virtuosity and facility, you can take and create something of significance"

Richard MacDonald, Sculptor

"My sculpture is very personal; for years my subjects were family and close, close friends"

Gloria Swanson, Actress

"We recognize that the arts are an essential part of San Francisco's cultural vitality"

Gavin Newsom, Politician

"The artist is seen like a producer of commodities, like a factory that turns our refrigerators"

Sol LeWitt, Artist

"I believe that the artist's involvement in the capitalist structure is disadvantageous to the artist and forces him to produce objects in order to live"

Sol LeWitt, Artist

"A blind man can make art if what is in his mind can be passed to another mind in some tangible form"

Sol LeWitt, Artist

"When I was 12 years old, someone took me to see Martha Graham. It was nothing like what I thought of as serious dancing and even then I knew I was having a great experience. It was as if somebody was moving through space like no one ever did before"

Leslie Fiedler, Critic

"As Mayor, I will fully support my Arts Commission and its professional selection committees so that they can commission a full range of public art that is daring and, when appropriate, daringly traditional"

Gavin Newsom, Politician

"Beauty is produced by the pleasing appearance and good taste of the whole, and by the dimensions of all the parts being duly proportioned to each other"

Marcus V. Pollio, Architect

"Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue"

Benjamin Haydon, Artist

"The arts can play a vital role in revitalizing neighborhoods, using and improving vacant space, bringing new jobs and new sense of opportunity, and improving public safety by generating more foot traffic and more eyes on the street"

Gavin Newsom, Politician

"San Francisco has long been a leader in the arts, nurturing generations of painters, sculptors, poets, novelists, playwrights, film-makers, and performing artists and innovators of every kind"

Gavin Newsom, Politician

"Good actresses can often accomplish miracles, and it is possible to be someone you've never been or will be. But in a sitcom, there's no time"

Patricia Richardson, Actress

"No designer has really wowed me yet, I'm into other people's recommendations when it comes to fashion"

Shawn Ashmore, Actor

"The value of an arts education is widely accepted, especially in California"

Gavin Newsom, Politician

"Whether it will convince or not, depends entirely on what it is in itself, what is there to be seen?"

Lucian Freud, Artist

"Since the model he so faithfully copies is not going to be hung up next to the picture... It is of no interest whether it is an accurate copy of the model"

Lucian Freud, Artist

"I would wish my portraits to be of the people, not like them. Not having a look of the sitter, being them"

Lucian Freud, Artist

"When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration"

Edward Steichen, Photographer

"I have a healthy view of what one can do with art"

Neil LaBute, Director

"Height, width, and depth are the three phenomena which I must transfer into one plane to form the abstract surface of the picture, and thus to protect myself from the infinity of space"

Max Beckmann, Artist

"A painter's tastes must grow out of what so obsesses him in life that he never has to ask himself what it is suitable for him to do in art"

Lucian Freud, Artist

"Painting constantly appeared to me as the one and only possible achievement"

Max Beckmann, Artist

"I want paint to work as flesh"

Lucian Freud, Artist

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