Arts, Media & Entertainment: Art Quotes

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"I don't know anybody who does what I do. I'm very underground"

Eric Bogosian, Actor

"We don't sell technical drawings except when they are incorporated into a drawing or a collage"

Christo, Artist

"If some of our works are symphonies, then wrapped walkways was chamber music!"

Christo, Artist

"But the drawings are not created only to be sold"

Christo, Artist

"And for every project, because it takes years, you can see the early drawings and collages as just a simple, vague idea, and through the years and through the negotiations of getting the permit, you see that every detail is now clarified"

Christo, Artist

"I just think that fiction that isn't exploring what it means to be human today isn't art"

David Foster Wallace, Writer

"The work of art is a scream of freedom"

Christo, Artist

"And the most unusual and surrealistic place in New York City is Central Park"

Christo, Artist

"Therefore we have to go over the fact that all human beings are afraid by what is new. It is our work to convince them that they will enjoy it, and even if they don't, to allow us just for 14 days to create that work of art"

Christo, Artist

"People think our work is monumental because it's art, but human beings do much bigger things: they build giant airports, highways for thousands of miles, much, much bigger than what we create"

Christo, Artist

"But now, today, we don't know if Over the River is truly the next project to be realized, because something very nice happened to our life in November in New York"

Christo, Artist

"Photography is still a very new medium and everything must be tried and dare!"

Bill Brandt, Photographer

"I consider it essential that the photographer should do his own printing and enlarging. The final effect of the finished print depends so much on these operations"

Bill Brandt, Photographer

"To make pictures big is to make them more powerful"

Robert Mapplethorpe, Photographer

"When I'm on stage, it's a little world I've created where I'm sort of the thing, so I have total control over everything that happens. When we're improvising, I'm with someone I totally trust. I know things are going to work out. I don't have those guarantees in life. There are no consequences on stage"

Colin Mochrie, Actor

"The freedom of every artist is essential"

Christo, Artist

"A photographer must be prepared to catch and hold on to those elements which give distinction to the subject or lend it atmosphere"

Bill Brandt, Photographer

"So it's hard to be an artist and be true to the reality of the world you want to create and also make it entertaining and successful financially"

Antoine Fuqua, Director

"Oh yes, I love to do shoes. I'm not a fetishist, but I love to do shoes"

Karl Lagerfeld, Designer

"I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea"

Karl Lagerfeld, Designer

"And that's what people want to see when they go to the theater. I believe at the end of the day, they want to see themselves - parts of their lives they can recognize. And I feel if I can achieve that, it's pretty spectacular"

Viola Davis, Actress

"I'll never have enough time to paint all the pictures I'd like to"

Norman Rockwell, Artist

"I talk as I sketch, too, in order to keep their minds off what I'm doing so I'll get the most natural expression I can from them. Also, the talking helps to size up the subject's personality, so I can figure out better how to portray him"

Norman Rockwell, Artist

"I learned to draw everything except glamorous women. No matter how much I tried to make them look sexy, they always ended up looking silly... or like somebody's mother"

Norman Rockwell, Artist

"I didn't know what to expect from a famous movie star; maybe that he'd be sort of stuck-up, you know. But not Gary Cooper. He horsed around so much... that I had a hard time painting him"

Norman Rockwell, Artist

"I can take a lot of pats on the back. I love it when I get admiring letters from people. And, of course, I'd love it if the critics would notice me, too"

Norman Rockwell, Artist

"Eisenhower had about the most expressive face I ever painted, I guess. Just like an actor's. Very mobile. When he talked, he used all the facial muscles. And he had a great, wide mouth that I liked. When he smiled, it was just like the sun came out"

Norman Rockwell, Artist

"A face in the picture would bother me, so I'd rub it out with the turpentine and do it over"

Norman Rockwell, Artist

"I hate artists who are not of their time"

Guillaume Apollinaire, Novelist

"Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman"

Guillaume Apollinaire, Novelist

"A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature"

Guillaume Apollinaire, Novelist

"With photography, you zero in; you put a lot of energy into short moments, and then you go on to the next thing"

Robert Mapplethorpe, Photographer

"My lifestyle is bizarre, but the only thing you need to know is where the darkroom is"

Robert Mapplethorpe, Photographer

"I'm not photographing anything naked these days. I haven't been concentrating on bodies recently!"

Robert Mapplethorpe, Photographer

"I'm not a photojournalist"

Robert Mapplethorpe, Photographer

"I'm looking for the unexpected. I'm looking for things I've never seen before"

Robert Mapplethorpe, Photographer

"You must first spend some time getting your model to relax. Then you'll get a natural expression"

Norman Rockwell, Artist

"Whoever wants to know something about me - as an artist, which alone is significant - they should look attentively at my pictures and there seek to recognise what I am and what I want"

Gustav Klimt, Artist

"There is nothing that special to see when looking at me. I'm a painter who paints day in day out, from morning till evening - figure pictures and landscapes, more rarely portraits"

Gustav Klimt, Artist

"There is no self-portrait of me"

Gustav Klimt, Artist

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