Arts, Media & Entertainment: Art Quotes

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"A contemporary artist can use the findings of all epochs and all styles, from the most primitive literary expressions up to the most refined products of the Baroque"

Juan Goytisolo, Poet

"I think that various styles and methods and approaches are an invention of people who don't understand the process of acting and who try very hard to label things"

Ben Kingsley, Actor

"I think that most actors, and they're a very strange lot, actors, very strange people, but I think that they attempt to keep in touch with the child"

Ben Kingsley, Actor

"It's an old ploy of the bourgeoisie. They keep a standing 'art' to defend their collapsing culture"

George Grosz, Artist

"When you get on stage, you can be anything. You are removed from reality in a way, the real world"

Suzanne Farrell, Dancer

"I'm thought of as a cool, unemotional dancer, but inside I'm not"

Suzanne Farrell, Dancer

"I didn't care too much for ballet, because you had to be more disciplined, and you sort of looked like everyone else. It required a certain kind of conformity that I didn't feel like I wanted to do"

Suzanne Farrell, Dancer

"How do you design it so that people can form a space of their own, and feel quiet and contemplative?"

Michael Arad, Architect

"There is a general knowledge that I am multi-dimensional, that when you are creative, you do a lot of things"

Suzanne Somers, Actress

"I have to experiment with methods, and I'm trying to find an authentic way of making an equivalent of the living, breathing person within the limits of a single picture"

Peter Wright, Celebrity

"I wanted to stimulate thought instead of throwing things out or try to give a perspective. I just put stuff up and it's up for two or three weeks and I get tired of it, so I take it down and put something else up"

Krist Novoselic, Musician

"The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness"

Max Eastman, Author

"It is something we have always excelled at and prided ourselves at - the excellences of our stage performance"

James Young, Musician

"One of the greatest things drama can do, at it's best, is to redefine the words we use every day such as love, home, family, loyalty and envy. Tragedy need not be a downer"

Ben Kingsley, Actor

"The support that we have from the network in terms of watching us at an unusual time in the year and playing our episodes three times in a given week until we built an audience... is exceptional"

Josh Schwartz, Producer

"People think they know who I am, because I've played so many very, very out gay men on stage, and they think that's me"

Nathan Lane, Actor

"I bought my first camera in Seattle, Washington. Only paid about seven dollars and fifty cents for it"

Gordon Parks, Photographer

"You know, the camera is not meant just to show misery"

Gordon Parks, Photographer

"The man at Kodak told me the shots were very good, and if I kept it up, they would give me an exhibition. Later, Kodak gave me my first exhibition"

Gordon Parks, Photographer

"I care more about telly because it made me an actor and there's a much more immediate response to TV. You can address the political or cultural fabric of your country"

Christopher Eccleston, Actor

"You are always damned by things that you do well as an actor"

Christine Baranski, Actress

"When I was nine years old, I use to copy ( not trace ) the covers of the Donald Duck comics. Many years later, I became a close friend of Jack Hannah, the director of the Donald Duck film shorts"

William Jackson

"I'm sad to say that stardom is a commodity in our culture"

Christine Baranski, Actress

"When I speak of the beauty of a game of chess, then naturally this is subjective. Beauty can be found in a very technical, mathematical game, for example. That is the beauty of clarity"

Vladimir Kramnik, Celebrity

"Art is not predictable. Art is not golf, as great as that may be. There are 360 degrees of choice to make"

Tina Weymouth, Musician

"I found every single laugh as Laertes that you can find, and only realized later that you really shouldn't find any at all"

David Hyde Pierce, Actor

"What we were in on, really, was the invention of animation"

Marc Davis, Artist

"At the ballet, you really feel like you're in the presence of something outside the rest of your life. Higher than the rest of your life"

Robert Caro, Writer

"Seek art from every time and place, in any form, to connect with those who really move you"

Martha Beck, Author

"I never went to a ballet until I was 45 years old. I don't know why?"

Robert Caro, Writer

"It does not seem that the contradiction which exists between the aristocratic function of art and the democratic structure of modern society can ever be resolved"

Herbert Read, Poet

"I'm a firm believer that actors take to work who they aren't at home. People show their other self in their art or in their work"

Robin Tunney, Actress

"The New York City Ballet is obviously speaking to a whole new generation and bringing it the same wonder and beauty that it brought previous generations"

Robert Caro, Writer

"Sometimes during a ballet I'll look around and see all these rows of intent faces, concentrating on this beautiful thing up on the stage"

Robert Caro, Writer

"I try and reduce myself to an almost blank slate and hope to God that I am creative"

Ben Kingsley, Actor

"Yes, the first job I had at the studio was Snow White. I don't like the term particularly, but I got stuck with the human characters. They just didn't have that many people who could draw humans"

Marc Davis, Artist

"The only sin is ugliness, and if we believed this with all our being, all other activities of the human spirit could be left to take care of themselves"

Herbert Read, Poet

"I wanted nothing else than to make the object as perfect as possible"

Erno Rubik, Inventor

"Rather than disliking theatre, I've expressed a preference for television because it tends to deal in its small way, much more with issues, and is able to reach a broader church of people than theatre"

Christopher Eccleston, Actor

"In acting there's two different things: You're either pitching in a scene, or you're catching"

Robin Tunney, Actress

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