Arts, Media & Entertainment: Art Quotes

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"I never say I have a preference for one medium as opposed to another"

Christine Baranski, Actress

"Sir Larry could be very strict and a disciplinarian, too. He had many faces; he wore many hats. But, ultimately, he loved the theater and he loved actors"

Derek Jacobi, Actor

"I am an actor and I live in the world of pretend in my working capacity. I live in the world of my imagination"

Derek Jacobi, Actor

"You come in off the street, through the doors of the theater. You sit down. The lights go down and the curtain goes up. And you're in another world"

Robert Caro, Writer

"Ballet is sort of a mystery to me. And I don't want to unravel that mystery"

Robert Caro, Writer

"Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty - as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it"

Florence King, Writer

"I got a heart tattooed on my foot. It's my first tattoo"

Goldie Hawn, Actress

"Fear, conformity, immorality: these are heavy burdens. They drain us of creative energy. And when we are drained of creative energy, we do not create. We procreate, but we do not create"

David McCallum, Actor

"I went to college for one semester, and I took every subject I could, and I ended up failing. So I thought to myself, "Ever since I was a kid, I've loved expression" - and that's when I started thinking about acting"

Derek Luke, Actor

"A performance art piece is unprecedented. It is difficult to censor since it has a good possibility of never being done before"

Jack Bowman, Actor

"Before I got through high school, I had attended 22 different schools. In the time before I was well acquainted with the latest school, I would amuse myself by drawing and found that I was pretty good at it"

Marc Davis, Artist

"Conception, my boy, fundamental brain work, is what makes all the difference in art"

Dante G. Rossetti, Poet

"In my photographs it is apparent that there was no posing at the moment I released the shutter"

Jerzy Kosinski, Novelist

"We also have the option of scanning in an image from outside the computer... a photo, or a sketch done with traditional tools; and we can then paint, manipulate, process, change, and further develop the image within the computer, watching our progress on the monitor"

Buffy Sainte-Marie

"I work closely with the printer to get the final print the way I want it"

Buffy Sainte-Marie

"The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract"

Ellen Key, Writer

"When I was a young actor... the more different you were from the part you played, the more talent it reflected"

Dirk Benedict, Actor

"Choreography is mentally draining, but there's a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancers and the music"

Alvin Ailey, Dancer

"The pictures are created by the listener, with a little help from the broadcaster. The pictures are perfect. If you're showing pictures, different things in that picture can distract from the spoken word"

Bob Edwards, Journalist

"With the success of a show, you get an opportunity to call attention to things that you believe in"

Bradley Whitford, Actor

"Once an artist explores the vast variety of tools and features available on the great programs, we're hooked"

Buffy Sainte-Marie

"Digital imaging allows both groups to rise above the limitations of mess and clutter and mechanics, and apply our talents to creating images limited only by our imaginations"

Buffy Sainte-Marie

"I haven't done any building designs since the Loaf House"

Ben Nicholson, Artist

"In this business, life is one long fund-raising effort"

Alvin Ailey, Dancer

"I would like to thank the people who encouraged me to draw army cartoons at a time when the gag man's conception of the army was one of mean ole sergeants and jeeps which jump over mountains"

Bill Mauldin, Cartoonist

"It's Frank's painting on the cover. We were originally going to use a Salvador Dali painting that we got permission from Salvador Dali to use, and Frank found this one, and it really did fit the music much more"

Alice Cooper, Musician

"I felt the most intense pleasure in piercing the stone in order to make an abstract form and space; quite a different sensation from that of doing it for the purpose of realism"

Barbara Hepworth, Artist

"Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings"

Agnes Martin, Artist

"Dramatic experience is not logical; it may be subdued to the kind of coherence that we indicate when we speak, in criticism, of form"

Allen Tate, Poet

"It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process"

Max Eastman, Author

"I like songs and film because you can turn your life into a sort of myth or dream"

Sean Lennon, Musician

"I think it's definitely beneficial for these characters to have good acting voices behind them and it affects the characters in a way that people can feel like they're part of the game and that they know these characters"

Tara Strong, Actress

"We have as many planes of speech as does a painting: planes of perspective which create perspective in a phrase. The most important word stands out, most vividly defined in the very foreground of the sound plane. Less important words create a series of deeper planes"

Konstantin Stanislavisky, Actor

"It's one of my strongest dance pieces - having just done Play Without Words which was veering away from a lot of dance - I thought it would be nice to go back to something with almost the most dance I'd done"

Matthew Bourne, Dancer

"A primitive artist is an amateur whose work sells"

Grandma Moses, Artist

"I spend my time trying to figure art out. I was brought up to believe that the way one processes information is by making it into art. That's how I live my life"

Sean Lennon, Musician

"The creative process is a process of surrender, not control"

Julia Cameron, Author

"Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite - getting something down"

Julia Cameron, Author

"I'm a fan of making things that I've seen but couldn't purchase, or things I bought that didn't fit the way I like"

Andre Benjamin, Musician

"My act has always reflected what's going on in my life"

Kathy Griffin, Comedian

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