Arts, Media & Entertainment: Art Quotes

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"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

"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

"I use something that is a real staple in the directing world. It's called a dance floor. You lay it down so that it's so smooth, you can roll around, and you can put furniture on top of it. It's seamless and you don't see it"

Debbie Allen, Actress

"Acting is an art form, and you want to take roles that are challenged, and it's more of a challenge, I think, to play dark characters. Not that I want to always play those, but it is a challenge and challenges are rewarding and fun"

James Franco, Actor

"I needed an outlet in high school and came across painting. I've actually been painting longer than I've been acting. A movie is a collaborative effort, and with painting you just have yourself!"

James Franco, Actor

"I like photographing the people I love, the people I admire, the famous, and especially the infamous. My last infamous subject was the extreme right wing French politician Jean-Marie Le Pen"

Helmut Newton, Photographer

"He brought imagination to the story of the Creation"

Harvey Keitel, Actor

"I just throw it out and see what happens. If it sounds and feels right, then I continue"

F. Murray Abraham, Actor

"The only thing an artist has to remember is to never lose faith in his vision"

James Lee Burke, Author

"Painting does what we cannot do - it brings a three-dimensional world into a two-dimensional plane"

Chuck Jones, Director

"I'm just having a wonderful time. It's an interesting thing that I'm very comfortable with this material and I don't know why. Maybe it's because I did Macbeth"

F. Murray Abraham, Actor

"I come from a family of business people, but I had the idea I wanted to become an artist"

Dick Bruna, Artist

"That's why people listen to music or look at paintings. To get in touch with that wholeness"

Corita Kent, Artist

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