Arts, Media & Entertainment: Art Quotes

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"When I first started all this, it was mostly music fans that came along, Stones fans. But now, I'm being taken seriously. I've got highfalutin' art collectors and everything!"

Ron Wood, Musician

"Let's face it: I paint well. I know it, you know it. There's no arguing really, is there?"

Ron Wood, Musician

"To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts - absolute gifts - which have not been acquired by one's own effort. And, moreover, to succeed, the artist much possess the courageous soul"

Kate Chopin, Author

"It is impossible to disregard such an important medium as television. We should know how to use it, learn to work in it and express new values in it"

Tahar Ben Jelloun, Poet

"People love coming on television, even if they have to show their miseries"

Victoria Abril, Actress

"It is easy to have a lot of paintings or projects hanging around that are 'almost done.'"

Thomas Kinkade, Artist

"The musician writes for the orchestra what his inner voice sings to him; the painter rarely relies without disadvantage solely upon the images which his inner eye presents to him; nature gives him his forms, study governs his combinations of them"

Hermann Ebbinghaus, Psychologist

"No rendering can really simulate the way the light bounces off the bronze panel. From some angles, it's almost a mirror, and from others it's a matte surface"

Michael Arad, Architect

"One of my great influences was Don Knotts as Barney Fife"

Martin Short, Actor

"Star Trek has brought so much of what I want within my grasp"

DeForest Kelley, Actor

"It was really a magical moment, to see this idea that's in your head"

Michael Arad, Architect

"I'm not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers"

Robert Wyatt, Musician

"It's always been performance art, but now it's on a different level"

Mark Roberts, Actor

"More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result"

Damon Albarn, Musician

"The most significant piece of advice my father gave me early on about acting was, don't get caught acting. Really believe in what you're doing and then commit to it. Even if it feels uncomfortable, even if you feel that you're gonna look like an ass. It's all acting, but find the truth in a moment as opposed to just pretending you have, and rather than trying to act your way out of it"

Kiefer Sutherland, Actor

"I don't know how many millions of photographs have been taken of me"

Boris Becker, Athlete

"I was only in one play at Steppenwolf, in the early days"

Douglas Wood, Writer

"I believe every chess player senses beauty, when he succeeds in creating situations, which contradict the expectations and the rules, and he succeeds in mastering this situation"

Vladimir Kramnik, Celebrity

"For us chess players, the language of artist is something natural"

Vladimir Kramnik, Celebrity

"Painting is seen as picture making, the making of an art object, something that can stand on its own"

Peter Wright, Celebrity

"I have never subscribed to the Dirty Pallet school of painting"

Peter Wright, Celebrity

"I'm definitely incredibly attracted to the aesthetic of what is typically deemed goth stuff, but. A lot of my experience growing up was in being around that kind of thing, and it's just what sinks into a person's brain"

Jhonen Vasquez, Cartoonist

"At this very moment I'm behind on a compilation that Slave Labor is doing for Free Comic Book Day"

Jhonen Vasquez, Cartoonist

"Actors take risks all the time. We put ourselves on the line. It is creative to be able to interpret someone's words and breathe life into them"

Patty Duke, Actress

"For me, art and chess are closely related, both are forms in which the self finds beauty and expression"

Vladimir Kramnik, Celebrity

"The concept that an artist would be revered by popular culture is an immediate dismissal of his relevance as an artist"

Thomas Kinkade, Artist

"When I look at some of my old work, the pieces I find most interesting are the ones with people in them"

Peter Wright, Celebrity

"I used to paint landscapes without any people in them, but now I paint people who happen to be in a particular place. They might be outside a pub, or on a beach, or in a studio. They might have clothes on, or they might not"

Peter Wright, Celebrity

"I felt the need to get back to painting and I thought the best way was to start drawing, so I enrolled in a life drawing class. I soon discovered that people made very interesting subjects and I am still surprised that I had never discovered it before"

Peter Wright, Celebrity

"It's taken folk a while to come around, hasn't it? Even the boys in the band weren't too sure about the whole art thing. They just wanted me to concentrate on the music. But they respect it now"

Ron Wood, Musician

"I have 15,000 comics in a warehouse, all bagged individually"

Method Man, Musician

"I love theater"

Kristin Davis, Actress

"Most creative work is a process of people passing ideas and inspirations from the past into the future, and adding their own creativity along the way"

Joichi Ito, Businessman

"Theatre is expensive to go to. I certainly felt when I was growing up that theatre wasn't for us. Theatre still has that stigma to it. A lot of people feel intimidated and underrepresented in theatre"

Christopher Eccleston, Actor

"The money is better in films and television. But in terms of acting, theatre is more rewarding"

Christopher Eccleston, Actor

"I think theatre is by far the most rewarding experience for an actor. You get 4 weeks to rehearse your character, and then at 7:30 pm, you start acting and nobody stops you, acting with your entire soul"

Christopher Eccleston, Actor

"The photographer begins to feel big and bloated and so big, he can't walk through one of these doors because he gets a good byline; he gets notices all over the world and so forth; but they're really - the important people are the people he photographs"

Gordon Parks, Photographer

"I learned to love dance for its own sake"

Suzanne Farrell, Dancer

"I always go back to theatre. It's probably where I'll draw my last breath"

Peter Gallagher, Actor

"Everything seems to be going faster and faster. It's really harder to create something that endures. The New York City Ballet has succeeded in doing that!"

Robert Caro, Writer

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