Arts, Media & Entertainment: Art Quotes

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"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

"The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of view, I think. All that we can hope for is to put some order into ourselves"

Willem de Kooning, Artist

"An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will"

Willem de Kooning, Artist

"I want to do something creative, not just easy"

Sebastian Bach, Musician

"Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic"

Antonio Gaudi, Architect

"A lot of the people who have come to know the company in the last few years will not have seen this piece"

Matthew Bourne, Dancer

"I try not to do anything by formula"

Sean Lennon, Musician

"Where as in animation, you have to kind of do a series of drawings in between to complete the movement"

Gerald Scarfe, Artist

"Putting out commercial pieces and promoting them and trying to sell them to people is not necessarily what it means to be an artist"

Sean Lennon, Musician

"It's one of the things that looks good written down, but the reality is that you think about the pieces you're doing and try to bear in mind everyone in the audience"

Matthew Bourne, Dancer

"Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love"

Claude Monet, Artist

"In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death"

Damien Hirst, Artist

"I always feel like the art's there and I just see it, so it's not really a lot of work"

Damien Hirst, Artist

"If you practice an art, be proud of it and make it proud of you. It may break your heart, but it will fill your heart before it breaks it; it will make you a person in your own right"

Maxwell Anderson, Playwright

"The deaf community is in a favorable position because they have a national theatre and training groups of their own to get them started. Deaf actors have often acquired very valuable skills and experience before they get their break"

Richard Masur, Actor

"He lives with his creativity in high gear"

John Travolta, Actor

"I try to be a truthful artist and I try to show a level of courage. I enjoy that. I'm a messenger"

Jeff Koons, Artist

"It's harder to be a success globally and be artistic. Harder to have that balance than just to be artistic when nobody understands you"

Andre Benjamin, Musician

"I miss performing before a live audience - the energy and excitement - there's nothing to compare with it"

Rena Marlette Lesnar, Model

"Generally, the French highly promote culture and the arts, and photography is in their blood"

Herb Ritts, Photographer

"It was like two different photographers, and shot in three different locations and it was really fun to do. There were 12 beautiful girls in it. It was great"

Gisele Bundchen, Model

"I think it's better when you're natural, when you just do whatever you want, instead of doing classes where I see all these other people holding back because they've been trained with certain skills or techniques. I'm like, whatever"

Gisele Bundchen, Model

"I don't think about art when I'm working. I try to think about life"

Jean-Michel Basquiat, Artist

"I'm pretty selective. I generally edit the contact sheets and then do work prints. Because I have my own lab and printers, I can afford the luxury of going through the contact sheets for black-and-white, making up work prints, seeing them big, and honing them down"

Herb Ritts, Photographer

"I think a lot of the time these days people are so concerned about having the right camera and the right film and the right lenses and all the special effects that go along with it, even the computer, that they're missing the key element"

Herb Ritts, Photographer

"I always enjoyed art history because, growing up in California, my exposure was limited, and it was a new experience. To learn the history of art opened up certain things to me, made me see. It intrigued me"

Herb Ritts, Photographer

"I think the art world... is a very small pond, and it's a very inbred pond. They rely on information from an elect elite sect of galleries, primarily in New York"

Thomas Kinkade, Artist

"It ain't the picture and it ain't the camera - it's the operator"

Simon Travaglia, Author

"When it comes down to it, it's giving people a good night out in a basic way and I think my company guarantees that. There's always something new and something to excite us and surprise us, and that's why people come back, I hope"

Matthew Bourne, Dancer

"The thing about Broadway: they always welcome you with open arms"

Brooke Shields, Actress

"Like most celebrities, of course, I adore all the Mario games"

Josie Maran, Model

"What I particularly liked was that, coming from California and not being involved in the New York scene, I developed my personal way, in my own way, at my own pace"

Herb Ritts, Photographer

"I'm just an artist and I'm doin' what I like to do"

Mos Def, Musician

"I start a picture and I finish it"

Jean-Michel Basquiat, Artist

"I've done a lot of acting. I'm not saying I'm the greatest, but I'd love to act, I'd love to sing"

Jessica Hahn, Celebrity

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