Arts, Media & Entertainment: Art Quotes

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"You don't need a uniform color: We used a mixture of brick red, browns and grays, and then threw in seashells, branches and various types of rock, so our walls ended up looking like cave paintings!"

Randy Bachman, Musician

"Then, you were supposed to discover the city, where they were. But because somebody like skeletons. And that they discovered that they were at a cheap price, we used too many skeletons all over the place, and the public got the wrong message"

John Hench, Artist

"You can have information and ease of use and have artistic integrity at the same time. The art of being a good Web designer is getting yourself into that middle ground and treating it as a final destination instead of as a compromise"

Mike Davidson, Writer

"I was in 20 Shakespearean plays by the time I was 20"

John Lithgow, Actor

"Acting allows me to explore new worlds, to discover characters by delving into their lives, and ultimately to become someone else entirely"

Pierce Brosnan, Actor

"The first piece of art that I ever bought-when I could afford it-was a Warhol sketch from the period when he was just getting out of doing commercial work and more into art. It's a sketch of a young guy's face. I guess the gallery that I bought it from thought I would like it because the young guy kind of looked like James Dean"

James Franco, Actor

"Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding"

Kenneth Tynan, Critic

"A good drama critic is one who perceives what is happening in the theatre of his time. A great drama critic also perceives what is not happening"

Kenneth Tynan, Critic

"I just saw the emotion in everything, so I got to feel everything that was going on and that I was viewing, but I couldn't think in terms of structure, which is the whole point of deep focus"

Gil Kane, Artist

"How can you say when you're attracted to something? It's not easy to articulate my tastes"

Jeff Goldblum, Actor

"I don't expect that we're going to become the biggest craze. If it happened, I'd be really shocked. I think people will dig it, but there will be a sea of people who just don't get it"

Dustin Diamond, Actor

"Scratch an artist and you surprise a child"

James Huneker, Writer

"I've always been creative, I think"

Emily Watson, Actress

"You have to examine a scene on the page first. Then you get into the basics of acting: Who are you? Who are you talking to? How do you feel about that person?"

Debbie Allen, Actress

"One day I would like to have my own art show"

Kiana Tom, Model

"The Broadway audience is made up of a greater percentage of tourists now. There's not nearly as much variety and danger and challenge in what's being offered"

John Lithgow, Actor

"For me, working on stage is much more exhausting than all the other mediums, but it's also much more thrilling"

John Lithgow, Actor

"It's that I don't like white paper backgrounds. A woman does not live in front of white paper. She lives on the street, in a motor car, in a hotel room"

Helmut Newton, Photographer

"In the photographs themselves there's a definite contrast between the figures and the location - I like that kind of California backyard look; clapboard houses, staircases outdoors"

Helmut Newton, Photographer

"I used to hate doing color. I hated transparency film. The way I did color was by not wanting to know what kind of film was in my camera"

Helmut Newton, Photographer

"I danced for 15 years of my life, which was my love and my passion"

Heidi Klum, Model

"The whole essence of good drawing - and of good thinking, perhaps - is to work a subject down to the simplest form possible and still have it believable for what it is meant to be"

Chuck Jones, Director

"I have to think as Bugs Bunny, not of Bugs Bunny"

Chuck Jones, Director

"Strangely enough, I'm better on a stage. I love that I feel like I blossom in front of a whole bunch of people"

Hugh Grant, Actor

"I enjoyed doing the gag covers better than the story ones because they were usually simpler. A cover based on an incident in the plot took a great deal of staging to tell a little story that was still part of the book. And it had to make sense on its own"

Carl Barks, Artist

"Design is a constant challenge to balance comfort with luxe, the practical with the desirable"

Donna Karan, Designer

"It irritated me that my fans kept wanting me to retread old ground"

Dario Argento, Director

"The camera is no more an instrument of preservation, the image is"

Berenice Abbott, Photographer

"One of the nice things about acting is that it allows you to open up to the other people within you"

David Duchovny, Actor

"The challenge for me has first been to see things as they are, whether a portrait, a city street, or a bouncing ball. In a word, I have tried to be objective"

Berenice Abbott, Photographer

"People are not recognisable, but places have to be recognisable"

Ann Robinson, Actress

"They will open up to what I would call corporate broadcastings where the non-commercial material will have air time. There's no possibility of that here right now, none"

Ann Macbeth, Author

"Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in"

Amy Lowell, Poet

"They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art"

Charlie Parker, Musician

"I've often wondered, when they've done Of Mice and Men on stage, and I've seen it, how they did that gun thing. I've watched it on stage, but I don't remember it"

Ray Walston, Actor

"Harley's been influential, but I'm not a big Harley fan"

Noah Hathaway, Actor

"Fashion is not frivolous. It is a part of being alive today"

Mary Quant, Designer

"There are some images that I will only use once, and not use again because they don't seem to really hit the nail right on the head, but there are some which are so strong they have to be reduced; sometimes just reusing them makes them stronger"

Keith Haring, Artist

"I think you have to control the materials to an extent, but it's important to let the materials have a kind of power for themselves; like the natural power of gravity, if you are painting on a wall, it makes the paint trickle and it drips; there is no reason to fight that"

Keith Haring, Artist

"Drawing is still basically the same as it has been since prehistoric times. It brings together man and the world. It lives through magic"

Keith Haring, Artist

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