Arts, Media & Entertainment: Art Quotes

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"The fact is that even art is subject to fashion"

Hugo Pratt, Cartoonist

"Because, also the world of showbiz is not just black and white, good and bad"

Klaus Schulze, Composer

"I set my sights upon becoming the kind of artist who would make a contribution to art history"

Judy Chicago, Artist

"What I learned as an actor was the only way you could really do August Wilson's work, you had to leave an ounce of your essence on that stage,... Otherwise it was impossible"

Charles S. Dutton, Actor

"There are infinite shadings of light and shadows and colors... It's an extraordinarily subtle language. Figuring out how to speak that language is a lifetime job"

Conrad Hall, Artist

"Contrast is what makes photography interesting"

Conrad Hall, Artist

"What we value about music and literature are the moments that they create in our minds when we encounter them"

Stephan Jenkins, Musician

"The closer the source of light is to a subject, the broader the beams are"

Conrad Hall, Artist

"I think the more the actor lets you know what he thinks of the character, the less the audience cares - like a comedian who laughs at his own jokes"

Neil LaBute, Director

"I think only of objects: of a leg or an arm, of the wonderful sense of foreshortening, breaking through the plane, of the division of space, of the combination of straight lines in relation to curved ones"

Max Beckmann, Artist

"I believe the reason I love painting so much is that it forces one to be objective"

Max Beckmann, Artist

"The picture is all he feels about it, all he thinks worth preserving of it, all he invests it with. If all the qualities which a painter took from the model for his picture were really taken, no person could be painted twice"

Lucian Freud, Artist

"The character of the artist doesn't enter into the nature of the art"

Lucian Freud, Artist

"My work is purely autobiographical... It is about myself and my surroundings"

Lucian Freud, Artist

"We can use techniques in modifying things, in controlling things, but the first impulse has to be something that you simply cannot make just out of technique, or else it becomes perfectly evident that it is nothing but technique that you're exercising"

Leo Ornstein, Composer

"I go to make art as who I am as a person. The fact that I am a woman comes into play, maybe in the kinds of things I'm interested in, or in the way I structure a canvas"

Judy Chicago, Artist

"There's no question that many more women artists are showing worldwide now than they were when I was a young woman, and that's really great"

Judy Chicago, Artist

"Ah, well, do I wish that we lived in a world where gender didn't figure so prominently? Of course. Do I even think about myself as a woman when I go to make art? Of course not"

Judy Chicago, Artist

"You have to understand the nature of light"

Conrad Hall, Artist

"When I first became interested in photography, I thought it was the whole cheese. My idea was to have it recognized as one of the fine arts. Today I don't give a hoot in hell about that. The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each man to himself"

Edward Steichen, Photographer

"Even before Europe was united in an economic level or was conceived at the level of economic interests and trade, it was culture that united all the countries of Europe. The arts, literature, music are the connecting link of Europe"

Dario Fo, Playwright

"The camera looks into your soul"

Joe Pantoliano, Actor

"To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance"

Jean Genet, Dramatist

"You shouldn't have to justify your work"

Judy Chicago, Artist

"Also, if you want to reach people, theatre is not always the best way to do it"

Harvey Fierstein, Actor

"If I was in love with someone, I would get their picture out of the school yearbook and do portraits. If I was curious about sex, I would draw pictures of it. There were no books for me to look at. Then I would go find my father's matches to burn the paper"

Lynn Johnston, Cartoonist

"So, did I work with Warhol? I worked with him less on that play then I did on other things. He actually did a portrait of my rabbit and some other stuff. Warhol was definitely... Warhol"

Harvey Fierstein, Actor

"What a thrill it was to play opposite Maurice Evans in this brilliant, dazzling musical, based on the life of two of the greatest personalities in stage history"

Dinah Sheridan, Actress

"We tell them that we believe it will be beautiful because that is our specialty, we only create joy and beauty. We have never done a sad work. Through the drawings, we hope a majority will be able to visualize it"

Christo, Artist

"Therefore, when we arrive in a place and talk to new people about a new image, it is very hard for them to visualize it. That's where the drawings are very important, because at least we can show a projection of what we believe it will look like"

Christo, Artist

"You see, we are not machines and we do not have lots of ideas in a drawer"

Christo, Artist

"We have created indoor installations inside museums, like the Wrapped Floor at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago in 1968, and not monumental at all, by any standards"

Christo, Artist

"The other exception where we did not at all restore the place to its original condition is the Surrounded Islands. Before we installed our fabric, we had our workers remove 42 tons of garbage off the beaches of those islands. We never brought the garbage back"

Christo, Artist

"Now, to describe the process of the Wrapped Reichstag, which went from 1971 to '95, there is an entire book about that, because each one of our projects has its own book. The book is not an art book, meaning it's not written by an art historian"

Christo, Artist

"Now, there is no way to say how long some projects take, that's our principle"

Christo, Artist

"TV's "real" agenda is to be "liked," because if you like what you're seeing, you'll stay tuned. TV is completely unabashed about this; it's its sole raison"

David Foster Wallace, Writer

"I think TV promulgates the idea that good art is just art which makes people like and depend on the vehicle that brings them the art"

David Foster Wallace, Writer

"I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art"

Ernst Fischer, Writer

"Comedy makes the subversion of the existing state of affairs possible"

Dario Fo, Playwright

"To restrict the artist is a crime. It is to murder germinating life"

Egon Schiele, Artist

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