Arts, Media & Entertainment: Art Quotes

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"Actually, my favourite roles have been in theatre, but on TV, my faves were Slap Maxwell and Larry Sanders"

Megan Gallagher, Actress

"You know like it has its own personality, its own character"

Marc Newson, Designer

"In some theoretical way I know that a half-million people hear the show. But in a day-to-day way, there's not much evidence of it"

Ira Glass, Journalist

"And then you have the classical ballerinas, they're like sopranos. Applied to the dance"

Ninette de Valois, Dancer

"Acting is doing, because everything you say or do is some kind of an action, some kind of a verb. You're always connected to the other person through some kind of action"

Mira Sorvino, Actress

"The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep"

Paul Strand, Photographer

"I think I may have become an actor to hide from myself. You can escape into a character"

John Candy, Comedian

"I feel like there's too many paintings left unpainted that I just don't want to take the time away"

Alan Bean, Astronaut

"I have more artistic control in a smaller show. But it doesn't really matter. Sometimes you can have the smallest role in the smallest production and still make a big impact"

Neil Patrick Harris, Actor

"Art is longer than life"

Lee Strasberg, Director

"An actor is an actor is an actor. The less personality an actor has off stage the better. A blank canvas on which to draw the characters he plays"

Arthur Lowe, Actor

"You can give some kind of spark of life to a comic that a photograph doesn't really have. A photograph, even if it's connecting with you, it seems very dead on the page sometimes"

Daniel Clowes, Author

"As I told you, from the time I was fifteen, I thought the theater was too much involved with actors trying to make the audience love them, being over emotional"

Richard Foreman, Playwright

"Acting gave me the opportunity to do outrageous things. It allowed me to be sad, happy, angry and lustful, even if it was just vicariously"

Joan Allen, Actress

"I acquired an admiration for Japanese culture, art, and architecture, and learned of the existence of the game of GO, which I still play"

Philip Warren Anderson, Scientist

"Painting and sculpture are very archaic forms. It's the only thing left in our industrial society where an individual alone can make something with not just his own hands, but brains, imagination, heart, maybe"

Philip Guston, Artist

"Well rounded forms gives smooth sounds; sharper or angular forms give harder and harsher sounds"

Norman McLaren, Artist

"The good moral work of art should have all the qualities that a good amoral work of art should have, such as formal unity, balance, contrast, and a sensitivity to the material out of which it is made"

Norman McLaren, Artist

"I love to be creative"

Michael Schenker, Musician

"Around 1980, I went back to painting with a vengeance"

Martin Mull, Actor

"You know, it was just another presentation of my work, and a funny one, because the cards are quite different from the normal Tarot deck, no?"

H. R. Giger, Artist

"I loved doing Shakespeare. My two favorite roles, in fact, have been Viola in Twelfth Night and Helena in A Midsummer Night's Dream"

Blythe Danner, Actress

"I dream that someday the step between my mind and my finger will no longer be needed. And that simply by blinking my eyes, I shall make pictures. Then, I think, I shall really have become a photographer"

Alfred Eisenstaedt, Photographer

"The colors I choose there was to paint the first hotel, the Disneyland Hotel. Because of the cloudy sky we had in Paris, it had to be a particular kind of color who will fight those grey days. And also something you can see when you're driving up 'There it is! We're arriving!'"

John Hench, Artist

"Even in China. Children there, next to the Great Wall, who had never seen Mickey Mouse, responded. So the studio did have that skill to communicate with images"

John Hench, Artist

"Even if you can't draw, do a little doodle or rip an illustration from a magazine - these visuals will help bring your idea to life"

John Emmerling, Businessman

"Sometimes when I see a performance that really takes me, I struggle. How can I express this to this person? I want this person to know how I felt. I want to get this across, and it's not very easy"

John Astin, Actor

"But I think theatre in a repressive society is an immensely exciting event and theatre in a luxurious old, affluent old society like ours is an entertaining event"

Janet Suzman, Actress

"Art includes everything that stimulates the desire to live"

Remy de Gourmont, Novelist

"You know some people say that you make watches or perfume bottles, it's all different things"

Marc Newson, Designer

"I have been extremely lucky with reviewers and critics throughout my career"

Kate Smith, Musician

"I grew up with art from the innocent age of ten - with art, but with no sense of identity"

John Lone, Actor

"But the whole idea of the transformation... mystery, transformation, and manipulations - those were the things that Marcel was a magician at. That's his magic"

Robert Barnes, Celebrity

"They said they wanted a lot of feathers, glitter, colourful colours. A costume. So I had a lady here in Calgary make it. She just kind of put together what I had in mind"

Owen Hart, Entertainer

"It was exactly an assembly line. You could look into infinity down these rows of drawing tables"

Gil Kane, Artist

"First of all, there was a guy named Charles Nicholas, who used to do all of the inking that Jack and Simon didn't do. Simon used to do splashes and covers, but Charles Nicholas, after a while, did the inside of all of the stuff"

Gil Kane, Artist

"Comics were going down for the second time, and here, all of a sudden, came this thing and for the next fifteen years, romance comics were about the top sellers in the field; they outsold everything"

Gil Kane, Artist

"I don't think you really can send an exact message, because any two viewers are so disparate, in terms of their backgrounds, their point of view, their histories, that there's no telling what that message might be"

Martin Mull, Actor

"You don't know how much artists go through to make it look so easy. It's all in the practice"

Lauryn Hill, Musician

"Until quite recently dance in America was the ragged Cinderella of the arts"

Shana Alexander, Journalist

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