Arts, Media & Entertainment: Art Quotes

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"I like to think of myself as kind of a sculptor, only I sculpt people"

Kathleen Quinlan, Actress

"I never was disillusioned with acting because I love acting"

Woody Harrelson, Actor

"Acting is always a challenge"

Robert Downey, Jr., Actor

"I'm trying to do the kind of projects that I want to see in the theatre"

Nicholas Lea, Actor

"The painting is not on a surface, but on a plane which is imagined. It moves in a mind. It is not there physically at all. It is an illusion, a piece of magic, so that what you see is not what you see"

Philip Guston, Artist

"Any excuse to live in New York and do art. Has to be one of the most rewarding experiences in the world"

Tommy Chong, Actor

"You know I was curious - I was interested in all kinds of mystery or deeper meanings in the paintings because I myself have not analyzed why they have turned out like this or like that"

H. R. Giger, Artist

"The show had run its course on the Fox network"

Will Arnett, Actor

"The thing I don't like on television is when somebody does something that makes absolutely no sense just for the shock of it"

Lauren Graham, Actress

"Hamlet is a remarkably easy role. Physically it's hard because it tends to be about three hours long and you're talking the whole time. But it's a simple role and it adapts itself very well, because the thing about Hamlet is, we all are Hamlet"

Liev Schreiber, Actor

"You know, 20 years... the films of television when it started, the literature, radio in communist countries, they're clean as a whistle; there was no violence, no sex, no drugs, nothing"

Milos Forman, Director

"I think it's all about how much you love, understand, and can relate to the material you are given"

Jonathan Brandis, Actor

"I'll eventually go back to theater because the feeling of being on stage where you have the audience right there, you can't replace that with anything"

Sanaa Lathan, Actress

"Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion. Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art"

Remy de Gourmont, Novelist

"Lesbians are likely to be drawn to stand-up, if only because it's cheaper to produce and therefore more accessible for women. But the very form of stand-up is masculine"

Kate Clinton, Comedian

"My play is the ultimate expression of my feeling of the twilight of Western civilization"

Richard Foreman, Playwright

"From that time through the time I was a New Dramatist, when I was something like twenty-two, I saw absolutely everything in New York. Absolutely everything"

Richard Foreman, Playwright

"All the dialogue on tape, and we'd play the tape in performance. Then I thought it'd be interesting if the actors repeated what they heard on the tape, but at a slower speed, so we'd get a web of language"

Richard Foreman, Playwright

"It was in high school that I first became interested in acting. We put on lots of plays"

Blythe Danner, Actress

"Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide"

Ben Okri, Poet

"Well, I never studied design and I went to art school to study art, you know, sculpture and things like that, and ended up making things like sculpture and started making chairs and jewelry together and that's how I started"

Marc Newson, Designer

"Theater in Chicago will always be my first love. It started careers for me and about 50 of my friends. We all love coming back. As soon as the TV show is over, I'll be back in Chicago, doing live theater"

William Petersen, Actor

"There can be nothing exclusive about substantial art. It comes directly out of the heart of the experience of life and thinking about life and living life"

Charles Ives, Composer

"If you see something that you feel is familiar, it gives you an important kind of emotional connection"

Marc Newson, Designer

"I could not separate myself off stage from myself on stage, as so many actors can"

Kate Smith, Musician

"One of the things I love about theater, one of the reasons I'll never give it up, is that it's fifty percent the audience's responsibility"

William Petersen, Actor

"They just wanted to show the entertainment world that we're vulnerable"

Tommy Chong, Actor

"I have tried to preserve in my relationship to the film the same closeness and intimacy that exists between a painter and his canvas"

Norman McLaren, Artist

"We are only beginning to learn what to say in a photograph. The world we live in is a succession of fleeting moments, any one of which might say something significant"

Alfred Eisenstaedt, Photographer

"You get a sense of how the show works and then let your personality take over"

Adam Baldwin, Actor

"I try to not get to the point where one is making wallpaper, or simply painting money. I want to make sure that I am at least trying to weigh myself down, that there's a challenge each time"

Martin Mull, Actor

"I think there are a lot of pictures to make. I sometimes question whether I'm even an artist or just a painter. To me, the making of the pictures is the most important thing"

Martin Mull, Actor

"But don't call me an actor. I'm just a worker. I am an entertainer. Don't say that what I am doing is art"

Javier Bardem, Actor

"I went on countless auditions. I begged my parents until I finally was allowed to be in a theatrical play when I was 13. It was the most important thing in my life"

Kate Hudson, Actress

"If there is some art involved, I'd like it to be that it came through the cracks of daily work"

Martin Mull, Actor

"My real training as an actor was when I started doing theatre"

Steve Buscemi, Actor

"It is the artist's business to create sunshine when the sun fails"

Romain Rolland, Novelist

"Technique is what you fall back on when you run out of inspiration"

Rudolf Nureyev, Dancer

"Walt put everything he knew about communication with images into the park, so it was very familiar"

John Hench, Artist

"I have wanted to be a fine artist painter, and I reached the point in art schools were I'd like to understand more about images and how images communicate information to people. And I was not getting very far in that from my professors"

John Hench, Artist

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