Arts, Media & Entertainment: Art Quotes

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"Lawrence Ferlinghetti had a tremendous education as an artist and also an enormous knowledge of literarture"

David Amram, Composer

"I wish to share and pass down some of my generation's traits, and encourage young people to create their own art, music, and literature"

David Amram, Composer

"Discipline in art is a fundamental struggle to understand oneself, as much as to understand what one is drawing"

Henry Moore, Sculptor

"I think art can reflect tragedy"

John Corigliano, Composer

"The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts"

Henry Moore, Sculptor

"In the past 10 years, I've looked at life as this Pollock stuff. And now I'm almost in the post Pollock phase"

Ed Harris, Actor

"Most of us came out of Popeye, so turning Popeye into something believable was tricky enough"

Gil Kane, Artist

"For me the purest and truest art in the world is science fiction"

C. J. Cherryh, Writer

"When I was onstage doing the work, adrenaline killed the pain because I never hurt in front of an audience"

Jerry Lewis, Comedian

"I admit there's an element of brutality in all my work - it's part of the truth about human existence, I always want to explore - but the last thing I'm trying to do is put on some kind of freak show, inviting people to get off on other people's pain and humiliation"

Todd Solondz, Writer

"It is a peculiar part of the good photographer's adventure to know where luck is most likely to lie in the stream, to hook it, and to bring it in without unfair play and without too much subduing it"

James Agee, Novelist

"It's also that comedians don't have the kind of narcissism that actors have. They're writers who perform their own material. It's more interesting. And they're sexy because they risk more. Stand-up comedians risk more than anyone!"

Rachel Weisz, Actress

"The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for artists"

Logan Pearsall Smith, Critic

"I'm a performer. I push the envelope, I work in a very uncontrolled manner onstage. I do a lot of free association, it's spontaneous, I go into character"

Michael Richards, Actor

"Picasso said once, when being interviewed, that one should not be one's own connoisseur"

Kenneth Koch, Poet

"I can't write, I can't paint, I don't compose"

Richard Attenborough, Actor

"But only if I believe that my directing talents will improve the material I'd be working on. I want to make sure I don't sacrifice beautiful material on the altar of my direction"

Andre Braugher, Actor

"I'd sleep under a Vermeer"

John Lithgow, Actor

"It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work"

Henry Moore, Sculptor

"Precision is not one of the qualities that comes out in my work"

Gil Kane, Artist

"DC used to print up all of their pages, they were the only company that did it"

Gil Kane, Artist

"Good design begins with honesty, asks tough questions, comes from collaboration and from trusting your intuition"

Freeman Thomas, Designer

"We are going to finish this picture just the way I want it... because you cannot compromise an artist's vision"

Ed Wood, Director

"In general, I don't know when inspiration will pop up"

Larry Niven, Writer

"I also paint and enjoy acrylic medium; some of my close friends have paintings I did for them"

Kiana Tom, Model

"It has a really timeless feel"

David Campbell, Politician

"People gave us everything for free. We were allowed only so much film per picture, but there was no limit to the creativity. I like to say that they let us loose like wild dogs in the streets of Paris"

Helmut Newton, Photographer

"Nobody taught Picasso how to paint - he learned for himself. And nobody can teach you to be a producer. You can learn the mechanics, but you can't learn what's right about a script or a director or an actor. That comes from instinct and intuition. It comes from inside you"

Dino De Laurentiis, Director

"Fashion is a very particular world, as you know"

Heidi Klum, Model

"My hobbies are painting, crafts, and I like golfing"

Nancy Kerrigan, Athlete

"Reality TV is sleazy, it is manipulative. It is as momentary as anything in popular culture"

Morley Safer, Journalist

"Franz Kline, who became known for his black and white paintings, did a whole series of gorgeous landscapes and wonderful portraits that may still hang in Greenwich Village"

David Amram, Composer

"One thing changes every evening: It's the audience, and I'm working my magic. I'm always learning from it"

Eli Wallach, Actor

"I believe that true beauty of chess is more than enough to satisfy all possible demands"

Alexander Alekhine, Celebrity

"Chess for me is not a game, but an art. Yes, and I take upon myself all those responsibilities which an art imposes on its adherents"

Alexander Alekhine, Celebrity

"I feel very strongly about dresses on every level - a dress feels like underpinning"

Donna Karan, Designer

"I'm trying to trick people into thinking about the unthinkable by using pop culture images"

John Shirley, Author

"I have a quiet and an artistic side that many people don't know of"

Kiana Tom, Model

"I wouldn't be surprised if some day, they put the Simpsons in the Smithsonian. It's become part of our culture, those characters"

Joe Mantegna, Actor

"It was a lot of fun doing the Nike commercials, too"

Jason Mewes, Actor

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