Arts, Media & Entertainment: Art Quotes

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"All the power to them, but I'm not interested in making yet another show that looks like some other show"

Jhonen Vasquez, Cartoonist

"I'm working on a snow scene right now, and it's summer. It's hot, and I will get chilly. I'll have to turn on the heat. My wife walks in, and it's 95 degrees in the studio. I know it's nutty, but it's a projection you have where you step into the painting"

Thomas Kinkade, Artist

"Unless the theatre can ennoble you, make you a better person, you should flee from it"

Konstantin Stanislavisky, Actor

"The main factor in any form of creativeness is the life of a human spirit, that of the actor and his part, their joint feelings and subconscious creation"

Konstantin Stanislavisky, Actor

"I wanted to be a star, not a gallery mascot"

Jean-Michel Basquiat, Artist

"When you are on stage, you don't see faces. The lights are in your eyes and you see just this black void out in front of you. And yet you know there is life out there, and you have to get your message across"

Suzanne Farrell, Dancer

"There is pain and sacrifice in everyone's world. That's why, when I was dancing, I had no pain"

Suzanne Farrell, Dancer

"In fact, ballet companies did not exist in the Midwest when I was a child"

Suzanne Farrell, Dancer

"I think especially in a world where you have so little say about what goes on in your life, or in the politics of the world around you, it is wonderful to go into that studio, and tell yourself what to do"

Suzanne Farrell, Dancer

"There's got to be something that you can do that will not just be a nice honor to the play, or the book, or the movie you're dealing with, but some aspect that maybe can explore something that the play couldn't do"

William Bolcom, Composer

"Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists"

Willem de Kooning, Artist

"I make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art"

Willem de Kooning, Artist

"I mean, when I was working, shall we say, with Disney, you know, they sent me the script for the film Hercules, and I had to imagine what all the characters looked like, and to develop those characters, so nothing exists visually when I get the script"

Gerald Scarfe, Artist

"People magazine had been around for a short period of time, but nobody had thought about putting entertainment news on a nightly basis on television"

Mary Hart, Entertainer

"But you know in the contemporary art world, you pose a very interesting conundrum. All sorts of people collect very contemporary art, yet when it comes to the music which is analogous to that sort of art, they are not interested, or perhaps even hostile"

Michael Tilson Thomas, Musician

"I was being an artist, being sensitive and technical as artists are. I'm sure Leonardo da Vinci did that. Artists don't always feel the same as others feel about their work"

Roy Ayers, Musician

"I don't want little kids reading my comics"

Jhonen Vasquez, Cartoonist

"At school there was no acting to be had other than school plays which I did now and again"

Ewan McGregor, Actor

"I think most people see drawing as subservient to the subject, a sort of meditation, a studying, a searching observation, in my case, for its own sake"

Peter Wright, Celebrity

"As a kid I quite fancied the romantic, Bohemian idea of being an artist. I expect I thought I could escape from the difficulties of maths and spelling. Maybe I thought I would avoid the judgement of the establishment"

Peter Wright, Celebrity

"Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance"

Max Eastman, Author

"I'd like to do more Shakespeare. I'd like to do Iago in Othello. I look so benign. It would be interesting to see that black evil come out of my soul"

Kyle MacLachlan, Actor

"Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down"

Malcolm De Chazal, Writer

"No nation as young as America can be expected to become immediately a power in the arts"

John Philip Sousa, Musician

"Governmental aid is a drawback rather than an assistance, as, although it may facilitate in the routine of artistic production, it is an impediment to the development of true artistic genius"

John Philip Sousa, Musician

"One of the things I love about acting is that it reveals a certain something about yourself, but it doesn't reveal your own personal story"

Jessica Lange, Actress

"Through every moment on stage for the first time, I felt like I was finally right where I belonged"

Peter Gallagher, Actor

"So I went to Chicago in 1940, I think, '41, and the photographs that I made there, aside from fashion, were things that I was trying to express in a social conscious way"

Gordon Parks, Photographer

"The moment the curtain rose on that first ballet, I knew something wonderful and new had come into my life. I can still see the first scene. The ballet was Divertimento No. 15"

Robert Caro, Writer

"The ballet embodies the notes of music. And sometimes you almost feel like you can see the notes dance up there on the stage"

Robert Caro, Writer

"I always considered myself a dancer before anything else"

Annette Funicello, Actress

"Animation did not become the dominant form of children's television until the '60s"

Annette Funicello, Actress

"I think if I were to go back on stage I might be in great danger of acting"

Ben Kingsley, Actor

"The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that there's some intelligence behind the cartoons, and there's a lot of work that's gone into it, so it can't all be just a lie"

Damon Albarn, Musician

"You only have a week to do a show. I mean, there's only so deep you can dig in that week"

David Hyde Pierce, Actor

"On the first season of our show, I commissioned a Native American artist to make up, 'cause I'm known for the tomahawk, besides the hair and the leather outfit and the whole thing"

Joe Lando, Actor

"It wasn't a problem for me drawing humans, although I had originally come to the studio with the idea that what I had to offer them was my knowledge in the drawing of animals"

Marc Davis, Artist

"I believe, however, that such abnormal moments can be found in everyone, and it is all the more fortunate when they occur in individuals with creative talent or with clairvoyant powers"

Giorgio de Chirico, Artist

"And really the purpose of art - for me, fiction - is to alert, to indicate to stop, to say: Make certain that when you rush through you will not miss the moment which you might have had, or might still have"

Jerzy Kosinski, Novelist

"It is really hard to do comedy; it takes a lot of energy and focus. It's rather like music: It's a lot of hitting notes precisely"

Christine Baranski, Actress

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