Arts, Media & Entertainment: Art Quotes

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"Now, I had been drawing all this time - especially in France of course - so, when I came back, my father gave me the chance to do a cover for one of the books he published"

Dick Bruna, Artist

"The Upper Bohemia people wore tuxedos in an art gallery, and Lower Bohemia was all of us"

David Amram, Composer

"Socrates didn't care to visit the theater, as a rule, except when the plays of Euripides (which some think, he himself had helped to compose), were performed"

Moses Mendelssohn, Philosopher

"What I think of as style - and I've gotten to this over years of really thinking about it - is that style is the unconscious choices I make"

John Corigliano, Composer

"Art is not only about angst"

John Corigliano, Composer

"I consider myself an artist. God granted me some gifts so that I could express myself artistically"

Don Johnson, Actor

"I'm more into the Spawn toys. They're really cool. They're coming out with a Techno Spawn series and another series, The Dark Ages, which are really cool"

Jason Mewes, Actor

"I realized that I needed to be anonymous on the street and somebody else on the stage. I had tried to put my street self on the stage, but what they want is an actor on stage"

Bobby Darin, Musician

"I was always talking in weird voices from the time I was two. I guess I just found a way to keep doing it! I did get a degree in theater and took some voice-over classes... but most of it is just the same stuff I was doing as a kid!"

Grey DeLisle, Musician

"Disney was not a good animator, he didn't draw well at all, but he was always a great idea man, and a good writer"

Chuck Jones, Director

"I really like to experiment. That's the only way I can work. It's instinctive"

F. Murray Abraham, Actor

"I don't go to these places where there are belly dancers and this and that"

Jeff Goldblum, Actor

"Each character represented a trait that resides in me"

Chuck Jones, Director

"I want a nice picture book with 12 pictures - I do my best with that format"

Dick Bruna, Artist

"I have been drawing all my life"

Dick Bruna, Artist

"The theater, bringing impersonal masks to life, is only for those who are virile enough to create new life: either as a conflict of passions subtler than those we already know, or as a complete new character"

Alfred Jarry, Writer

"The comic page is dying; I didn't want to go with it"

Berke Breathed, Cartoonist

"I love building spaces: architecture, furniture, all of it, probably more than fashion. The development procedure is more tactile. It's about space and form, and it's something you can share with other people"

Donna Karan, Designer

"Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to be acted upon, to be subjective? Living photography is positive in its approach, it sings a song of life - not death"

Berenice Abbott, Photographer

"I did private study for about a month, five days a week, six hours a day. I came to understand the character in ways that I never would've previous to that. I was so innocent in respect to ways of creating characters"

Corin Nemec, Actor

"It's tourists in New York. Everything is geared towards that. It's so hard on Broadway now for them to get people in there. They have to compete with so many other entertainments, so they have to bring a star in, which puts people there out of work"

Delta Burke, Actress

"The Coyote is limited, as Bugs is limited, by his anatomy"

Chuck Jones, Director

"If you start with character, you probably will end up with good drawings"

Chuck Jones, Director

"The first time I acted was in high school in Florida, and when I heard that applause, I felt so alive and felt that electricity go up my spine"

Angela Bassett, Actress

"I thought it would be very nice to become Picasso or Rembrandt, or a Van Gogh"

Dick Bruna, Artist

"Pop culture is great, but it can be bad, at times"

Aisha Tyler, Actress

"What motivates me in art is the ugly and beautiful nature of the truth. It has to be truthful and honest, even if it is ugly and grotesque"

Corin Nemec, Actor

"Art is about expressing the true nature of the human spirit in whatever way one wishes to express it. If it is honest, it is beautiful. If it is not honest, it is obvious"

Corin Nemec, Actor

"It is my greatest joy to live a really good part, even though it imposes great strain. An artist is tired but proud when he has created a great work of art. So it is with the actor who really lives a great role and is proud of the part he played"

Conrad Veidt, Actor

"I trained as a theater actor, and you had a bare stage, and you had to pretend, one prop and you are in the middle of 8th Ave. and traffic is just going by"

Benicio Del Toro, Actor

"Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself"

Berenice Abbott, Photographer

"We are not yet at the point where our size, our being the drama industry, is sufficient to support full time professional crews, and that is very very important"

Ann Macbeth, Author

"When I was at school at Paris, I had special lessons from Mademoiselle Antoine, an actress at the Comedie Francaise, and I was taken to every sort of play. I felt very grand"

Vivien Leigh, Actress

"I've always had a kind of visual eye, and it was a pleasant exercise for that"

Adrian Edmondson, Actor

"The play is always fresh to me. It's not the audience's fault that I've said the words before"

Theodore Bikel, Actor

"Art must take reality by surprise"

Francoise Sagan, Playwright

"So ultimately, it's idealistic to think that artists are able to step away from the power of the media and the way it controls things, and go on doing their own things"

Thom Yorke, Musician

"My argument would be that I don't think there is much that's genuinely political art that is good art"

Thom Yorke, Musician

"It is difficult to make political art work"

Thom Yorke, Musician

"Coming from Britain, I was terrified of meeting all these other artists, because artists over there tend to fight with each other a lot, the premise being that there's not enough room for everybody"

Thom Yorke, Musician

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