Arts, Media & Entertainment: Art Quotes

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"I really wanted there to be something in my life that I enjoy just for the beauty of it"

Robert Caro, Writer

"My dream is to eventually open a children's theatre"

Moira Kelly, Actress

"Just letting it out is one of the definitions of bad art"

Dennis Potter, Dramatist

"Some of these sketches were done at the very beginning of the Pirates project, when I was trying to find a direction for myself. That was the early sixties... maybe 61 or 62"

Marc Davis, Artist

"I'm drawing the gossip surrounding the celebrity, or the image the celebrity tries to push on us"

Hilary Duff, Actress

"The modern work of art, as I have said, is a symbol"

Herbert Read, Poet

"Art is pattern informed by sensibility"

Herbert Read, Poet

"We're all so mauled by information, but it's recycled information. We need to shut it out. So, you've got to get bizarre. This is an artist's purpose - to break away from the recycled. Performance art can do that"

Jack Bowman, Actor

"At that time, the people that were in the animated film business were mostly guys who were unsuccessful newspaper cartoonists. In other words, their ability to draw living things was practically nil"

Marc Davis, Artist

"The first professional training I received of any kind was when I was 14 years old and we were in Kansas City, Missouri. I attended the Kansas City Art Institute for one summer"

Marc Davis, Artist

"I don't think anyone can tell you what it is that makes you a star"

Desi Arnaz, Actor

"The makeup is simply an extension of the personality, and colors, clothing, makeup all express something"

Gene Simmons, Musician

"I think actors always retain one foot in the cradle. We're switched on to our youth, to our childhood. We have to be because we're in the business of transferring emotions to other people"

Derek Jacobi, Actor

"When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination"

Ellen Key, Writer

"Actually, I think Art lies in both directions - the broad strokes, big picture, but on the other hand the minute examination of the apparently mundane. Seeing the whole world in a grain of sand, that kind of thing"

Peter Hammill, Musician

"Surrealism: An archaic term. Formerly an art movement. No longer distinguishable from everyday life"

Brad Holland, Illustrator

"Many of the contradictions in Postmodern art come from the fact that we're trying to be artists in a democratic society. This is because in a democracy, the ideal is compromise. In art, it isn't"

Brad Holland, Illustrator

"If they were starting their careers today, Rockwell and Picasso would probably both be painting on black velvet"

Brad Holland, Illustrator

"Cubism is still the most important art movement for the same reason that John D. is still the most important Rockefeller"

Brad Holland, Illustrator

"The slapdash way producers used to assemble a show seems a little unbelievable when we talk about them now"

Ethel Merman, Musician

"The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke"

Jerzy Kosinski, Novelist

"The only people left in America who seem not to be artists are illustrators"

Brad Holland, Illustrator

"The chance to be both artistically appreciated and commercially appreciated... That's what you hope for"

Gerard Butler, Actor

"I attend surprisingly few shows. The type of theater that is popular today just doesn't appeal to me"

Ethel Merman, Musician

"When you act, you're always playing a version of yourself. You can't bring more to the role than what you are"

Bradley Whitford, Actor

"Performance art can involve the audience with taste, smell and sounds not available with electronic media and not practical with conventional theater. This is due to the usually small audience"

Jack Bowman, Actor

"Performance art can be produced in a coffee house setting"

Jack Bowman, Actor

"All good performance pieces have some philosophical validity. That's the difference between mere theater and performance art"

Jack Bowman, Actor

"Drawing is giving a performance; an artist is an actor who is not limited by the body, only by his ability and, perhaps, experience"

Marc Davis, Artist

"If I'm interrupted, it's just a minor inconvenience, but not a disaster, because it's easy to get back where I was: that is, the paint has not changed consistency; the light has not moved"

Buffy Sainte-Marie

"Just because people can express themselves through their art doesn't mean they are great communicators in person"

Christie Brinkley, Model

"I had this idea that I wanted to do this mixture of visions of African American women and visions of African American men. And call it 'The Men' and call it 'The Women' and show different faces of these two people"

Faith Ringgold, Artist

"With 'Carousel,' I had an idea and it all came out quickly"

George Murray, Poet

"I'm not so presumptuous to feel that they're gonna get it right away, get exactly what I have in mind. I hope that they'll enjoy looking at it at any rate, whatever it is. And that's why I started writing stories on my work"

Faith Ringgold, Artist

"Mapplethorpe presented the body as a sexual object, separating it from the humanity of the person. He added nothing to photography as a medium. I hold his work in low regard"

Jerzy Kosinski, Novelist

"Political art expresses the cliches you agree with, unlike propaganda, which expresses the cliches you don't"

Brad Holland, Illustrator

"I've never understood why artists, who so often condescend to the cliches of their own culture, are so eager to embrace the cliches of cultures they know nothing about"

Brad Holland, Illustrator

"Style is the most valuable asset of the modern artist. That's probably why so many styles are reported lost or stolen each year"

Brad Holland, Illustrator

"The truth is, we haven't really figured out yet how artists are going to thrive in modern mass societies. We're all experiments"

Brad Holland, Illustrator

"I started producing work with an ecstatic addiction"

Ben Nicholson, Artist

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