Arts, Media & Entertainment: Art Quotes

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"A great actor is independent of the poet, because the supreme essence of feeling does not reside in prose or in verse, but in the accent with which it is delivered"

Lee Strasberg, Director

"Art is good, but it isn't the best"

Jose Bergaman, Writer

"Cartoonist was the weirdest name I finally let myself have. I would never say it. When I heard it, I silently thought, what an awful word"

Lynda Barry, Cartoonist

"I've played Lear three times, I would love to do it again"

David Ogden Stiers, Actor

"I enjoy all aspects of it, I don't have a preference for any medium. I think each of them has its attractions and I would hope they each inform the other in some way"

Cillian Murphy, Actor

"Usually I am on a work for a long stretch, until a moment arrives when the air of the arbitrary vanishes, and the paint falls into positions that feel destined"

Philip Guston, Artist

"Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see"

Philip Guston, Artist

"I made the first Moebius strip without knowing what it was"

Max Bill, Architect

"My sisters were going out with artists and poets, and eventually it was the creative world which attracted me"

Luc Ferrari, Composer

"To become a classical ballerina, you have to move to New York when you're 12 or 11 and that becomes your life. I just wanted to be good in my company in Charleston and I wanted it to always be part of my life"

Jennifer Garner, Actress

"Art is basically made by dissatisfied people who are willing to find some means to relieve the dissatisfaction"

John Chamberlain, Artist

"When it is working, you completely go into another place, you're tapping into things that are totally universal, completely beyond your ego and your own self. That's what it's all about"

Keith Haring, Artist

"It is done... The precious portrait placed in the hands of the gentlemen for safe keeping"

Dolley Madison, First Lady

"You cannot set art off in a corner and hope for it to have vitality, reality, and substance"

Charles Ives, Composer

"The downside of videos is that it will put my vision in front of other people, so they might not get the chance to create their own"

Carole King, Musician

"Acting is really only part of my life. I'm addicted to it"

Blythe Danner, Actress

"Once the amateur's naive approach and humble willingness to learn fades away, the creative spirit of good photography dies with it. Every professional should remain always in his heart an amateur"

Alfred Eisenstaedt, Photographer

"The theater is magical and addictive"

Angela Lansbury, Actress

"It's the duty of all novelists, all painters, all musicians, all people who try to make art move: to look for something they feel authentically, without paying attention to styles"

Nathalie Sarraute, Lawyer

"A comic can be aesthetically beautiful. I think they captured it beautifully and accurately"

Yancy Butler, Actress

"True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation"

Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Poet

"Look at any inspired painting. It's like a gong sounding; it puts you in a state of reverberation"

Philip Guston, Artist

"The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing"

Eugene Delacroix, Artist

"A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds"

Henry Moore, Sculptor

"But the building's identity resided in the ornament"

Louis Sullivan, Architect

"Every mind which has given itself to self-expression in art is aware of a directing agency outside its conscious control which it has agreed to label 'inspiration'"

Norman Lindsay, Artist

"And it has some weight, I mean, the whole history of the Gargoyles, that's some wonderful stuff"

Keith David, Actor

"But I found that being an artist and doing accurate work is very difficult"

Alan Bean, Astronaut

"What moves those of genius, what inspires their work, is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough"

Eugene Delacroix, Artist

"Art is subject to arbitrary fashion"

Kary Mullis, Scientist

"Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn"

Martin Amis, Author

"All that is necessary to paint well is to be sincere"

Maurice Denis, Artist

"Red is one of the strongest colors, it's blood, it has a power with the eye. That's why traffic lights are red, I guess, and stop signs as well... In fact I use red in all of my paintings"

Keith Haring, Artist

"Acting is the most personal of our crafts. The make-up of a human being - his physical, mental and emotional habits - influence his acting to a much greater extent than commonly recognized"

Lee Strasberg, Director

"I think DOOM had just the right mix of elements that keep people coming back to it: great monsters, excellent weapons with great balance, a spooky environment and extreme speed"

John Romero, Inventor

"It's up to the audience. It always has been"

Kate Smith, Musician

"It was the spirit animating the mass and flowing from it, and it expressed the individuality of the building"

Louis Sullivan, Architect

"God creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it - from what I see, from what the dancers can do, from what others do"

George Balanchine, Dancer

"I don't start with a design objective, I start with a communication objective. I feel my project is successful if it communicates what it is supposed to communicate"

Mike Davidson, Writer

"Some people say my work is often depressing and pessimistic, with the emphasis on death, blood, overcrowding, strange beings and so on, but I don't really think it is"

H. R. Giger, Artist

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