Arts, Media & Entertainment: Art Quotes

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"I have the worst ear for criticism; even when I have created a stage set I like, I always hear the woman in the back of the dress circle who says she doesn't like blue"

Cecil Beaton, Photographer

"We can compare classical chess and rapid chess with theatre and cinema - some actors don't like the latter and prefer to work in the theatre"

Boris Spassky, Celebrity

"The beginning of Book Three is the last one that I drew, where V's conducting the 1812 overture"

David Lloyd, Artist

"Narcissism and the Confederate dead cannot be connected logically, or even historically; even were the connection an historical fact, they would not stand connected as art, for no one experiences raw history"

Allen Tate, Poet

"You know, there's a saying in art that in order to be universal you must be specific. So I think every artist feels that he is dealing with specific things but that it also has significance universally"

David Cronenberg, Director

"When you're modeling you're actually acting for the camera and the photographer. It's more fun, too, because there are no lines to memorize"

Cindy Margolis, Model

"Theatre is more exciting in the sense that you can actually see the audience in the eye. You know there are no takes and retakes. You have one chance to do your job... and you better do it well!"

Christine Lahti, Actress

"No matter what you write or choreograph, you feel it's not enough"

Alvin Ailey, Dancer

"Sixteen million colors in your palette are hard for any artist, especially a beginner, to turn down"

Buffy Sainte-Marie

"As a teenager, I started painting and playing guitar"

Buffy Sainte-Marie

"I would act whether or not I was paid. I would be involved in ensemble groups. I would have the desire to tell stories"

Brendan Fraser, Actor

"I think you have to show homage to creators"

Brendan Fraser, Actor

"I have a book of buildings from 25,000 BC. These are huts built out of mammoth bones. These buildings were beautifully made, from the bones of the body into shelter"

Ben Nicholson, Artist

"I just sit at the drawing board most of the time. I am used to talking to people. I love going to conventions, getting feedback and talking to people. Some artists don't. Some artists sit at their drawing board because their personality actually dictates that"

David Lloyd, Artist

"We still spend more time chasing funds than we do in the studio in creative work"

Alvin Ailey, Dancer

"The key is in remaining just aloof enough from a painting so that you know when to stop"

Buffy Sainte-Marie

"The artistic process in digital art is very much the same as for making other kinds of paintings"

Buffy Sainte-Marie

"That is, an artist who creates lots of work probably experiences prolific days and slower days"

Buffy Sainte-Marie

"Digital art software has empowered both the painterly side of photographers, and the photographer side of painters"

Buffy Sainte-Marie

"But in the old days, visual artists used to fall into two distinct categories: those of us who created images with cameras and those of us who applied stuff onto other stuff, with brushes or other tools"

Buffy Sainte-Marie

"You can just drift unhappily towards this vision of heaven on earth, and ultimately that is what architecture is a vision of: Heaven on earth, at it's best"

Ben Nicholson, Artist

"I'm just interested in meditating on certain ideas, and I like to draw: that's my way of thinking"

Ben Nicholson, Artist

"My works are an imitation of my own past and present"

Barbara Hepworth, Artist

"I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body"

Barbara Hepworth, Artist

"I always want to have more dancers in my company"

Alvin Ailey, Dancer

"Dance is for everybody. I believe that the dance came from the people and that it should always be delivered back to the people"

Alvin Ailey, Dancer

"I feel most strongly about Jerusalem, because architects ultimately have to address that city"

Ben Nicholson, Artist

"Any material may be used but the theme is the same and the response is the same for all artwork... We all have the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly"

Agnes Martin, Artist

"The theater is the thing I love doing most"

Judi Dench, Actress

"I'm a designer of more than clothes. I am a designer of a very creative concept"

Tommy Hilfiger, Designer

"Theatre can't be done again and again and again and again - it's organic"

Kim Cattrall, Actress

"The roles for women in theatre are much better than they are in film"

Kim Cattrall, Actress

"The first professional play I ever saw was The Importance Of Being Earnest, and I just fell in love"

Kim Cattrall, Actress

"Art is an expression of who you are. Parts that I play are my sculptures"

Kim Cattrall, Actress

"It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was"

Buffalo Bill, Celebrity

"Artists, no matter how good their intentions, are always slower than they think"

Mark Millar, Writer

"It's incredibly moving to hear some of our greatest actors performing Shakespeare"

Judi Dench, Actress

"In contrast, the control you have in a theatre is very attractive to me"

Judi Dench, Actress

"I trained as a designer, so I'm always terribly keen about what I'm going to look like"

Judi Dench, Actress

"I love being part of a company, and telling a story"

Judi Dench, Actress

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