Arts, Media & Entertainment: Art Quotes

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"I've been doing it all along, ever since I got out of art school"

Martin Mull, Actor

"I never stopped making pictures. There were times when more of my income was coming from other sources, and I had to devote more time to television and movies and records"

Martin Mull, Actor

"Firstly, I did it in this huge theatre in Avignon, then to smaller places, then bigger places. You have to change the volume of the voice, give more or less. The way you have to relate to space makes it like sculpture"

Isabelle Huppert, Actress

"But theatre is always a difficult experience"

Isabelle Huppert, Actress

"As I very much liked to draw and paint as a child, I entered a special art program in high school, which was very much like being in an art school imbedded in a regular high school curriculum"

Jerome Isaac Friedman, Physicist

"Good acting is about being as natural and calm as possible. These days producers have such definite ideas that you have to be prepared to do whatever they ask"

Bryn Terfel, Musician

"But the business side of it, as with most creative things, there is no room for business. It is about art. It's not about marketing"

Warren Cuccurullo, Musician

"It's the first time that I've ever had an art show based on a film, but it's a photography collage"

Val Kilmer, Actor

"I love to play for audiences that are simply made of people rather than so-called special people"

John Astin, Actor

"I've just begun to dare to think, I perhaps am a bit of an artist"

David Lean, Director

"If you copy, then it is not self-expression"

Michael Schenker, Musician

"I think you learn a lot about a country from its art. To me, it's part of the drama of life. It teaches you that there are places, moments and incidents in other cultures that genuinely have a life of their own"

Michael Palin, Comedian

"What I am sad about is that there is now, in America, no equivalent to the art circuit"

Richard Attenborough, Actor

"I mean, one of the basic rules when you're acting is that you mustn't stand in judgement on a character, you mustn't say Hitler was a bad man because you can't act in that way"

Janet Suzman, Actress

"For English assignments I was constantly coming up with these strange adventure stories... But I actually wanted to be an artist, or maybe work in the comic book industry"

Paul Kane, Writer

"Early One Morning takes time and, I mean, all things like that I felt were very important"

Anthony Caro, Sculptor

"But I really want to be an artist, so therefore I have to live a little bit like a monk"

John Lone, Actor

"The show is being changed right now, by the way. Jeff Burke is doing it for the Magic Kingdom. And I think it will be better, with new birds, master of ceremonies, etc"

John Hench, Artist

"I suppose that I was a kind of consultant for taste. Is it good taste? Or bad taste? I had an attention to detail, to what would tell best the story. Because many people get excited about the work and drift off from the story"

John Hench, Artist

"But I don't think that sculpture belongs in everyday life like a table does, or like a chair"

Anthony Caro, Sculptor

"You know, radio was a really easy way to do the shows. You'd come in, do a read-through, there'd be a few rehearsals, then you'd come the night of the show and do it in front of the audience and then go home"

Harry Shearer, Actor

"But... watching Steven Barnes taught me to treat my life like an art form"

Larry Niven, Writer

"What theatre started to look at much earlier than any other form was the internal operations of ordinary people, sometimes using mythic models in order to tell the story"

Pete Townshend, Musician

"When you end a successful sitcom, the most sensible thing to do is go back to the theater"

John Lithgow, Actor

"There's nothing like spending an evening with an audience every night"

John Lithgow, Actor

"But what was interesting about what the Who did is that we took things which were happening in the pop genre and represent them to people so that they see them in a new way. I think the best example is Andy Warhol's work, the image of Marilyn Monroe or the Campbell's soup can"

Pete Townshend, Musician

"It's kind of an art, going out and performing. I'd like fans to remember me as a guy who would go out and entertain them, give them quality matches, and not just the same old garbage every week"

Owen Hart, Entertainer

"And so my militant philosophy is this: to make with a brush on canvas is a simple direct delight-to make with the movie is the same"

Norman McLaren, Artist

"My job as a portrait photographer is to seduce, amuse and entertain"

Helmut Newton, Photographer

"It really is a day job, and it also seems to have virtually disappeared-with no remorse, really. It gives me more time to paint"

Martin Mull, Actor

"I had a teacher in art school who said something about the only works he really enjoyed seeing or found much in were works where he had a sense that a discovery was made in the course of making this object. I like to hold to that as my marching orders"

Martin Mull, Actor

"We call ourselves creators, and we just copy"

Lauryn Hill, Musician

"Avedon wouldn't let me put wax between my teeth like I usually did"

Lauren Hutton, Model

"I love painting"

Heidi Klum, Model

"Walt understood all of those things, and even common things about people. For instance: Usually you get your idea of what kind of day it is by looking at the horizon, because the horizon is your eye level. So what Walt did is to eliminate the horizon"

John Hench, Artist

"Mickey is one of the prime examples: Mickey has never been suspected of being an American export. It was deja vu. They gave him a local name and he's been accepted everywhere he goes"

John Hench, Artist

"Some of the French surrealists at the beginning of the war had come over to New York and they brought out this magazine. It was a big, glossy magazine full of surrealist things"

Kenneth Koch, Poet

"I became an art major, took every art class my school had to offer. In college, I majored in Advertising Art and Design"

Len Wein, Cartoonist

"Seeing that picture, for me, was like Chartres Cathedral"

Henry Moore, Sculptor

"There are a lot of wonderful things created in our culture that have been ignored that can speak to them"

David Amram, Composer

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