Arts, Media & Entertainment: Art Quotes

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"To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano"

James Whistler, Artist

"The vast majority of English folk cannot and will not consider a picture as a picture, apart from any story which it may be supposed to tell"

James Whistler, Artist

"An artist's career always begins tomorrow"

James Whistler, Artist

"One of the most important things to me is to make things real, not have models who are perfectly groomed or clothes that are too perfect. It all has to have a twist because that's how people live"

Tommy Hilfiger, Designer

"The New York City Ballet is always about the realm of possibilities, the realm of what the human body can do, what the human spirit can do. And it's about listening, it's about listening to remarkable music and how we respond to that"

John Guare, Playwright

"The ballet makes us look at those bodies, it makes us listen to that music, it makes us wonder at the geometry, of the way they come together. The way that extraordinary space is controlled and given such emotional force"

John Guare, Playwright

"People go to see beautiful paintings to see how much they cost. Wow. The practical value is that it shows you what the human spirit can do"

John Guare, Playwright

"I think that every year that the New York City Ballet is alive is worthy of celebration. Because otherwise, the terrible thing is just that we take it for granted"

John Guare, Playwright

"However, the moral center of New York City, I believe, is the New York City Ballet"

John Guare, Playwright

"Does any art have a practical value? People love to talk about how expensive a painting is. That's the only way we can talk about paintings in this century"

John Guare, Playwright

"And what would be great numbers in a Broadway show are now on stage of the New York City Ballet"

John Guare, Playwright

"All the New York City Ballet does is hit beautiful home runs"

John Guare, Playwright

"The media works in sound bites. They can make you look like a genius or stupid!"

Kato Kaelin, Celebrity

"The stage is near and dear to me"

Bela Lugosi, Actor

"Every article on these islands has an almost personal character, which gives this simple life, where all art is unknown, something of the artistic beauty of medieval life"

John Millington Synge, Poet

"Evidently the arts, all the visual arts, are becoming more democratic in the worst sense of the word"

Eugenio Montale, Poet

"Art is the production of objects for consumption, to be used and discarded while waiting for a new world in which man will have succeeded in freeing himself of everything, even of his own consciousness"

Eugenio Montale, Poet

"Against the dark background of this contemporary civilization of well-being, even the arts tend to mingle, to lose their identity"

Eugenio Montale, Poet

"I'm interested in creating a space where different histories can meet"

Grace Wales Bonner, Designer

"I want to create something that feels intimate and human"

Grace Wales Bonner, Designer

"I think about how I can create a world that feels true to me"

Grace Wales Bonner, Designer

"I like to be creative and I'm lucky that I have a couple of different outlets, and I'm lucky that I get to use them"

Jamie Kennedy, Actor

"I think if you're artistic in any way, you're probably born with it. I guess it's a talent that can be learned here and there, but I think the instinct to tell a story or to create something happens maybe in the womb"

Gabriel Macht, Actor

"Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected"

William Plomer, Writer

"One is born to be a great dancer"

George Balanchine, Dancer

"In my ballets, woman is first. Men are consorts. God made men to sing the praises of women. They are not equal to men: They are better"

George Balanchine, Dancer

"In ballet, a complicated story is impossible to tell... We can't dance synonyms"

George Balanchine, Dancer

"But I'm the only one who can paint the moon, because I'm the only one who knows whether that's right or not"

Alan Bean, Astronaut

"I like to do theater and hopefully be effective. Most actors, at least contemporary actors of my generation, can't do it. They don't have the chops"

Jeffrey Wright, Actor

"With BSG, sci-fi is the human experience taken beyond the envelope. When I first became involved with the project, I knew that I would be able to play a human being for many years, exploring and reflecting on issues that would impact people's lives"

Mary McDonnell, Actress

"Art is when things appear rounded"

Maurice Denis, Artist

"All artists are now free to express their own personality"

Maurice Denis, Artist

"Believe me, it jabs you. When you're on the side of buses and New York loves you, you love to go out there every night. It's like a race. Curtain opens, out you go, and New York is yours"

Angela Lansbury, Actress

"The strips are nearly effortless unless I am really emotionally upset, a wreck"

Lynda Barry, Cartoonist

"Let's be real: It's just TV; it's just entertainment"

Chi McBride, Actor

"Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again"

Philip Guston, Artist

"There is a deep question whether the possible meanings that emerge from an effort to explain the experience of art may not mask the real meanings of a work of art"

Jerome Bruner, Psychologist

"I was involved with drama departments since the 5th grade. I played at it. It was an escape"

Adam Baldwin, Actor

"I never wanted to become an actress because I'd read great literature or seen great Shakespeare. It was more just wanting to understand what the people were really like, why they said all the strange things they did"

Julie Walters, Actress

"Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort"

Robert Quillen, Journalist

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