Arts, Media & Entertainment: Art Quotes

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"There would never have been a British Ballet without Diaghilev. He had a wonderful influence"

Ninette de Valois, Dancer

"I was much more interested in making things than in designing them"

Marc Newson, Designer

"I think it's really important to design things with a kind of personality"

Marc Newson, Designer

"I'm doing things that are more artistic again, more close to the material that I love. I don't disparage those things that I did. They're just not as much reflective of who I am"

Mira Sorvino, Actress

"Classical ballet will never die"

Ninette de Valois, Dancer

"Acting doesn't feel good. It's not comfortable to feel all this stuff, it's not"

Tea Leoni, Actress

"No, Arrested Development was such an amazing experience in every way, and you know it was very unique in that it was a show that received a lot of critical acclaim, and yet we didn't ever achieve the ratings that we wanted"

Will Arnett, Actor

"There's a lot of mediocrity being celebrated, and a lot of wonderful stuff being ignored or discouraged"

Sean Penn, Actor

"If you're willing to put two thoughts into a picture, then you're already ahead of the game"

Sean Penn, Actor

"The perfection of art is to conceal art"

Quintilian, Educator

"You don't see artists sitting around a lot, talking about ideology. They find out what they believe, and what they're doing, by doing it"

Peter Coyote, Actor

"The survival of artistic modes in which we recognize ourselves, identify ourselves, and place ourselves will survive as long as humanity survives"

M. H. Abrams, Critic

"You know that's history, that's why some people say that my stuff is retro, but I don't agree"

Marc Newson, Designer

"I don't have any furniture of mine in my room"

Marc Newson, Designer

"An entertainer should in his public performance keep himself out of any controversy, political or otherwise"

Kate Smith, Musician

"Well, I've been painting for years. I just started doing a lot more in the last couple"

Robyn Hitchcock, Musician

"I've always liked the minds of criminals, they seem similar to artists"

Richard Linklater, Director

"I acted in junior high in the junior high school group, and then when I got into senior high, I was, you know, the main actor of the senior high school"

Richard Foreman, Playwright

"Because even at the age of fifteen, I used to go see all the Broadway shows and feel that they were sentimental, that they were pandering to the audience and trying to manipulate the audience. I had no use for practically any of the shows that were hits"

Richard Foreman, Playwright

"You know, you've got serious pieces, you've got light pieces, you've got cooking segments, you've got health-related topics, so it's not as if they've had a unique personality from the get-go"

Katie Couric, Journalist

"I like to take these unusual characters and then make them as normal as possible, because we all know that the tragedy and the abnormal always hides itself behind the normal"

Isabelle Huppert, Actress

"Filmmakers are going to make films, just like painters are going to paint"

Richard Linklater, Director

"There is no work of art that has ever been made that is absolutely truthful about life"

Richard Foreman, Playwright

"Now, when I started my theater, the modus operandi was having the actors stare right into the audience"

Richard Foreman, Playwright

"The avant-garde makes more sense to me"

John Cale, Musician

"But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio, even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake"

Ira Glass, Journalist

"It doesn't matter so much where the material comes from, as long as it's good"

Steve Buscemi, Actor

"In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought, who won them and who lost them - unless there is a painting, a play, a song or a poem that speaks of the event"

Theodore Bikel, Actor

"For me, acting is doing"

Pierce Brosnan, Actor

"I don't know if you've noticed it. But Duchamp was magnificent"

Robert Barnes, Celebrity

"To be able to get up and be in my studio and work all day is a great joy"

Martin Mull, Actor

"I've always had a certain fascination. It's basically: paint what you know, and this is what I grew up with"

Martin Mull, Actor

"Pollock said several times that he couldn't separate himself from his art. Not knowing much about modern art when I began to read about him, I was much more his persona - his struggles as a human being - that was interesting to me"

Ed Harris, Actor

"I try something new every night. It's an hour show; if it works, I maybe try it a few more times and then move that off and try something new. It's a great workshop for me"

Kate Clinton, Comedian

"Which implies that the real issue in art is the audience's response. Now I claim that when I make things, I don't care about the audience's response, I'm making them for myself. But I'm making them for myself as audience, because I want to wake myself up"

Richard Foreman, Playwright

"I was enchanted by the escape into that meticulous world that seemed real yet not... well, it seemed not real, but very detailed and meticulous, bizarre"

Richard Foreman, Playwright

"The process of art evolving is always one which has fascinated me"

Norman McLaren, Artist

"In any art movement, the art has to move into a new phase - a filmmaker has a desire to make a film that is not like a previous film"

Norman McLaren, Artist

"Of course, it gave the studio an enormous power, because I don't know any other place, who had that skill with images to communicate with. And the need of these kinds of images are even greater now than they ever were, because we are losing our life symbols"

John Hench, Artist

"I also paint, draw and I'm into film and photography as well, and the same thing applies to all of them. You're presenting this material to the general public and hoping that they're going to 'get' what you're doing. Some don't, some do"

Paul Kane, Writer

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