Arts, Media & Entertainment: Art Quotes

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"Every single time I start to do a picture, without fail, I feel as if I don't know what I'm doing"

Tom Cruise, Actor

"Nowadays people's visual imagination is so much more sophisticated, so much more developed, particularly in young people, that now you can make an image which just slightly suggests something, they can make of it what they will"

Robert Doisneau, Photographer

"See, when I paint, it is an experience that, at its best, is transcending reality"

Keith Haring, Artist

"People were more interested in the phenomena than the art itself. This, combined with the growing interest in collecting art as an investment and the resultant boom in the art market, made it a difficult time for a young artist to remain sincere without becoming cynical"

Keith Haring, Artist

"I found I have to stay painting"

Alan Bean, Astronaut

"People think that whatever I put into strips has happened to me in my life"

Lynda Barry, Cartoonist

"Now, there are so many movies, so many festivals, and so many awards going on, each judged with each other, like your work is worse than others and that's not fair. How can you tell what's best and what's worst from these awards? We're talking about art"

Javier Bardem, Actor

"The only albatross is the hurt you divine from what people say about your art"

Stephen Stills, Musician

"An artist cannot be responsible for what people make of their art. An audience loathe giving up preconceived images of an artist"

Stephen Stills, Musician

"An actor's tribute to me is in his work"

Lee Strasberg, Director

"I started doing cartoons when I was about 21. I never thought I would be a cartoonist. It happened behind my back. I was always a painter and drawer"

Lynda Barry, Cartoonist

"Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry"

Nathalie Sarraute, Lawyer

"The wonderful thing about Food for Thought is that it lets you keep your hand in theater and be in front of a live audience without a commitment of six months, or even three months"

Treat Williams, Actor

"I never had any acting heroes. I never really went to the theatre"

Julie Walters, Actress

"It's a question of not copying the masters, to look for something, good or bad, for oneself. To enter this liberated state of mind, one cannot copy the others"

Nathalie Sarraute, Lawyer

"I have this certain vision of the way I want my comics to look: this sort of photographic realism, but with a certain abstraction that comics can give. It's kind of a fine line"

Daniel Clowes, Author

"So I've done my fair share of theater. I have also been very fortunate in that I've been able to come to New York two or three times a year just to see as many shows as possible. I think the live theater culture here is incredible"

Neil Patrick Harris, Actor

"The dominant invades the entire picture, as it were. In this way I seek to individualize the color, because I have come to believe that there is a living world of each color and I express these worlds"

Yves Klein, Artist

"My contribution to the world is my ability to draw. I will draw as much as I can for as many people as I can for as long as I can"

Keith Haring, Artist

"Once you decide that it is the art that is important and not how popular and well received you are, you no longer have an albatross"

Stephen Stills, Musician

"You make something, and you really have fun with it, and you try to put emotion in it, and at the end of the day, you have no idea how the tide is going to fall. You don't know if everyone's going to like it, if everyone's going to hate it, if it's going to be like you're a media darling, or all of a sudden you're a sellout. You have no idea"

Regina Spektor, Musician

"In my experience a painting is not made with colors and paint at all. I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint?"

Philip Guston, Artist

"The interesting thing about Bettie Page that I discovered was to leave the mystery. She always retained a little mystery. Let there be some unknowns"

Gretchen Mol, Actress

"The trick is to have my own particular taste and feel for the theater to audiences who have been used to one particular style and taste for nearly 40 years"

Michael Ritchie, Director

"Far from creating a new formalism, what these can yield is something far transcending surface values since they not only embody form as beauty, but also form in which intuitions or ideas or conjectures have taken visible substance"

Max Bill, Architect

"We call those works of art concrete that came into being on the basis of their inherent resources and rules - without external borrowing from natural phenomena, without transforming those phenomena, in other words: not by abstraction"

Max Bill, Architect

"The orbit of human vision has widened and art has annexed fresh territories that were formerly denied to it"

Max Bill, Architect

"I love the rehearsal process in the theatre, and the visceral sense of contact and communication with a live audience"

Judd Nelson, Actor

"Image is an international language"

Marjane Satrapi, Artist

"The exciting part of acting, I don't know how else to explain it, are those moments when you surprise yourself"

Tom Cruise, Actor

"Daylight reveals color; artificial light drains it"

Helena Rubinstein, Businessman

"It's exciting to do something like this because usually what happens in theater is that, after the first or second reading of a play, it falls apart completely and the rehearsal process is such that you begin to pick up the pieces and put it back together again"

Treat Williams, Actor

"I didn't want to be an artist"

Carole King, Musician

"I have so much respect for people in the theater. You can't do 10 or 15 takes. It's all live. It's like life in motion"

Puff Daddy, Musician

"I am a night painter, so when I come into the studio the next morning the delirium is over"

Philip Guston, Artist

"When something really extreme happens, you have to find a way to embrace that and include it in how you think about the character. Sometimes it's not easy"

David Ogden Stiers, Actor

"I find that communication as an actor and person is an important part of who I am. And I'm really drawn into the psychology of those dynamics"

Zachary Quinto, Actor

"I don't really approach a character as to whether or not it's good or bad. I just approach a character as to where it lives in me"

Zachary Quinto, Actor

"Before I do a play, I say that I hope it's going to be for as short a time as possible, but once you do it, it is a paradoxical pleasure. One evening out of two, there are five minutes of a miracle and for those five minutes you want to do it again and again. It's like a drug"

Isabelle Huppert, Actress

"Style, no matter how outrageous it is, is still an expression of someone's personality. And my personality is somewhere stuck in the classics"

Liev Schreiber, Actor

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