Quotes about Art Form

Somewhere in my head, a private conviction exists that 'Search is the Process' and 'Discovery the Art Form. Votes: 3

If Wagner lived today, he would probably work with film instead of music. He already knew back then that the Great Art Form would include a sort of fourth dimension; it was really film he was talking about. Votes: 3

Music happens to be an art form that transcends language. Votes: 1

In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport. Votes: 1

Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it. Votes: 1

Music has the power to bring people together like no other art form. Votes: 1

Creating a wonderful drama is an art form, while comedy is just entertainment. Votes: 1

Graffiti's always been a temporary art form. You make your mark and then they scrub it off. Votes: 1

I think you can do anything with comics that you could do in just about any art form. Votes: 1

There hasn't been anything real since grunge. That was the last movement led by music or an art form. Votes: 1

As far as playing jazz, no other art form, other than conversation, can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction. Votes: 1

I consider skateboarding an art form, a lifestyle and a sport. 'Action sport' would be the least offensive categorization. Votes: 1

Ballet is an incredibly difficult, beautiful art form that takes a lot of training, a lot of time, and a lot of hard work. Votes: 1

Silent pictures show us how we lived and what our attitudes were. And as an art form, they can be wonderfully entertaining and often inspirational. Votes: 1

Salad can get a bad rap. People think of bland and watery iceberg lettuce, but in fact, salads are an art form, from the simplest rendition to a colorful kitchen-sink approach. Votes: 1

When we hear some beautiful piece of Mozart or admire a wonderful building, we suddenly become present in ourselves. That's unusual nowadays because dishevelment and distraction have become an art form. Votes: 1

I feel like skateboarding is as much of a sport as a lifestyle, and an art form, so there's so much that that transcends in terms of music, fashion, and entertainment. Votes: 1

The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it... try to fake three laughs in an hour - ha ha ha ha ha - they'll take you away, man. You can't. Votes: 1

What 'War and Peace' is to the novel and 'Hamlet' is to the theater, Swan Lake' is to ballet - that is, the name which to many people stands for and sums up an art form. Votes: 1

I'm happy to be a writer - of prose, poetry, every kind of writing. Every person in the world who isn't a recluse, hermit or mute uses words. I know of no other art form that we always use. Votes: 1

It is essential to do everything possible to attract young people to opera so they can see that it is not some antiquated art form but a repository of the most glorious music and drama that man has created. Votes: 1

Comedy is the one absolutely self-aware art form. Actually, hip-hop's another one, I suppose. Because in your songs you're talking about how good a hip-hop artist you are. It's like a painter painting a panting of himself painting a painting. Votes: 1

One of the most amazing things about mathematics is the people who do math aren't usually interested in application, because mathematics itself is truly a beautiful art form. It's structures and patterns, and that's what we love, and that's what we get off on. Votes: 1

Barack Obama's life was so much simpler in 2009. Back then, he had refined the cold act of blaming others for the bad economy into an art form. Deficits? Blame Bush's tax cuts. Spending? Blame the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. No business investment? Blame Wall Street. Votes: 1

Let's face it: professing a deep interest in movies, the absolutely dominant global art form of the last century, is at this point like professing an interest in air. Passion is nice. Erudition is admirable. But it's like that moment when good manners cross over into meaningless etiquette. Votes: 1

At this point in my life - age 24 - I have chosen a fairly strange path that not many are walking. I am a professional spoken word poet who tours the world performing and teaching. I run an organization called Project VOICE dedicated to using this art form as an education and empowerment tool in schools and communities of all kinds. Votes: 1

I think music is the greatest art form that exists, and I think people listen to music for different reasons, and it serves different purposes. Some of it is background music, and some of it is things that might affect a person's day, if not their life, or change an attitude. The best songs are the ones that make you feel something. Votes: 1

It'll be the Internet and piracy that will kill film. There's a philosophy that the Internet should be free, but the reality is that piracy will destroy the film industry and film as an art form because it's expensive to make a movie. Maybe you'll have funky little independent movies, and it'll go back and then start up again some other way. Votes: 1

Art is nothing without form. Votes: 0

Cinema is an art form. Votes: 0

Capitalism is an art form. Votes: 0

You can't rush an art form. Votes: 0

Art is a form of catharsis. Votes: 0

Art is a form of consciousness. Votes: 0

Headline writing is an art form. Votes: 0

Art is the highest form of hope. Votes: 0

Tragedy is the highest form of art. Votes: 0

Japanimation is a whole different art form. Votes: 0

Stage performing is a dying art form. Votes: 0

Art strives for form, and hopes for beauty. Votes: 0

I consider tragedy the highest form of art. Votes: 0

Actors have no color. That's the art form. Votes: 0

the one universal form of art is music. Votes: 0

War is the highest form of modern art. Votes: 0

All great art is a form of complaint Votes: 0

For fun? Maybe evil is an art form. Votes: 0

To most women art is a form of scandal. Votes: 0

All great art is a visual form of prayer. Votes: 0

I spent my life making fashion an art form. Votes: 0

Any form of art is a form of power. Votes: 0

Movies are the art form most like man's imagination. Votes: 0

Classical art stands for form; romantic art for content. Votes: 0

[Rewriting is] a whole other art form; it's about craftsmanship. Votes: 0

Cinema is arguably the 20th century's most influential art form. Votes: 0

Like seduction, the Priestess took poisoning to an art form. Votes: 0

Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous. Votes: 0

Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century. Votes: 0

I like music because it's the only invisible art form. Votes: 0

I always think that art is a form of sacrifice. Votes: 0

Football is an art form in itself. All sports are. Votes: 0

To Norwegians, the polka is a form of martial art. Votes: 0

Insanity is a legal term. Crazy is an art form. Votes: 0

I think comedy is the hardest art form there is. Votes: 0

Art is our weapon. Culture is a form of resistance. Votes: 0

Every single art form is involved in film, in a way. Votes: 0

Unquestionably, standup comedy is and has always been an art form. Votes: 0

It is in its pure form that an art hits hard. Votes: 0

Art is a form of catharsis emotional release, purging, cleansing, purifying. Votes: 0

It's a new art form, showing people how little we care. Votes: 0

A piece of art is a compact form of the universe. Votes: 0

Art is form struggling to wake from the nightmare of nature. Votes: 0

In this art form, in any art form, generalities are useless. Votes: 0

Music is the noise that surrounds the stillness of the art form. Votes: 0

The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it... Votes: 0

Movies suddenly became film and cinema an art form and terribly chic... Votes: 0

Great stories don't often make great movies. Its' a crafted art form. Votes: 0

Self-nurturance, or learning to bask in bliss, is an acquired art form. Votes: 0

Insecurity's best cover is perfectionism. That's where it becomes an art form. Votes: 0

Simply making decisions, one after another, can be a form of art Votes: 0

The internet has surrounded television and turned television into an art form. Votes: 0

Reading is an art form, and every man can be an artist. Votes: 0

Film in the 20th century, it's the American art form, like jazz. Votes: 0

Art is a form of play rejoicing before the face of God. Votes: 0

Teaching is a sacred profession. And art is a form of teaching. Votes: 0

The highest art is no art. The highest form is no form Votes: 0

To me art is a form of manifest revolt, total and complete. Votes: 0

Being funny is a gift, and, when done well, is an art form. Votes: 0

Every song, every form of art, clothing, shoes, it has to be special. Votes: 0

This so-called contemporary art is not a form, but a philosophy of society, Votes: 0

Nothing more inelegant and ineffective than an art conceived in another art's form. Votes: 0

I think that limitations are the most important part of any art form Votes: 0

The purpose of music as an art form, is to engage the audience. Votes: 0

I think comedy is an angry art form; it's an outsider art form. Votes: 0

Anime is intended to have ambiguous features. That's part of the art form. Votes: 0

Gardening is an art form, but it has lost its sense of history. Votes: 0

A work of art is a form that articulates forces, making them intelligible. Votes: 0

In art as in life, form and subject, body and soul, are one. Votes: 0

Some say art is our highest form of hope. . . . Perhaps it's our only hope. Votes: 0

Art is a form of love. Art is the ultimate gift. Art heals life. Votes: 0

Films are an art form which are sold after packaging in this commercial world Votes: 0

Abstract art has helped us to experience the emotional power inherent in pure form. Votes: 0

I've always wanted to be an animator. That's an ultimate art form, right there Votes: 0

Understanding is a form of blindness. Good art, I think, can never be understood. Votes: 0

I've always wanted to be an animator. That's an ultimate art form, right there. Votes: 0

I love the art form, but working in film can be a disheartening experience. Votes: 0

Art is foremost a state of mind, and only secondarily a problem of form. Votes: 0

Writing is the one art form that really should allow you to hang yourself. Votes: 0

But... watching Steven Barnes taught me to treat my life like an art form. Votes: 0

The whole idea of ideas in art is useless. Only have ideas about form. Votes: 0

I do not think there is any question of photography being an art form! Votes: 0

True art takes note not merely of form but also of what lies behind. Votes: 0

I loved comedy all my life. I think it's a real powerful art form. Votes: 0

Magic is an art form where you lie and tell people you are lying. Votes: 0

Art in its highest form is art that serves and instructs society and human development. Votes: 0

It's disappointing to see films become pure entertainment, so that it's not an art form. Votes: 0

My whole theory about art is the disparity that exists between form, masses and movement. Votes: 0

Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Votes: 0

Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form. Votes: 0

Art is only the search, it is not the final form. It's unlimited, it's forever. Votes: 0

All art is the tension, expressed between the uncontainable and its one perfect inevitable form. Votes: 0

Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form." Votes: 0

All art is a form of artifice.For in art there can be no prejudices. Votes: 0

Washington is a mean town where human sacrifice has been raised to an art form. Votes: 0

I don't get many hecklers now but answering them is an art form in itself. Votes: 0

Art is a product of nature in general, in the particular form of human nature. Votes: 0

Art for me is a form of nourishment. I need the land. I need it. Votes: 0

Music connects with the soul. I think it's the quickest art form to the soul. Votes: 0

The ability to workshop in stand-up comedy is incomparable to any art form, in my opinion. Votes: 0

Good art is a form of prayer. It's a way to say what is not sayable. Votes: 0

The film is the first art form capable of demonstrating how matter plays tricks on man. Votes: 0

Comics are my first love, and I hate seeing an art form that I love suffer. Votes: 0

Whatever poetry that was in me was coming out in the form of constructing art books! Votes: 0

I want to be an art-hero - I want to change the form of the novel. Votes: 0

I see filmmaking as a business and pity anyone who regards it as an art form. Votes: 0

Mathematics is not merely an idle art form, it is an essential part of our society. Votes: 0

Other than conversation, no other art form can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction like Jazz. Votes: 0

I'm a text artist. It's an unsung art form because it's so ahead of its time. Votes: 0

The object of art is to crystallize emotion into thought, and then fix it in form. Votes: 0

Art sometimes imitates life. When it does, science fiction presages what form that life may take. Votes: 0

You gotta know when to be lazy. Done correctly, it's an art form that benefits everyone. Votes: 0

I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form, but as a medium of information. Votes: 0

I think the short story is a very underrated art form. We know that novels deserve respect. Votes: 0

Most great art is freedom within form. Without form, we are amateurs, without freedom, we are robots. Votes: 0

Whoever invented smooth jazz, man, I wanna kill 'em: You're turning an art form into a hooker. Votes: 0

To sculpt a head of hair with scissors is an art form. It's in pursuit of art. Votes: 0

I haven't ever found any great writing on that wonderful and often unappreciated art form, the insult. Votes: 0

In Africa, music is not an art form as much as it is a means of communication. Votes: 0

Life is very nice, but it lacks form. It's the aim of art to give it some. Votes: 0

Ballet is like any other art form in that we all start out knowing nothing about it. Votes: 0

Make no mistake about it, magick is an art form, and every true magician is an artist. Votes: 0

To be interested in short stories, you have to be interested in fiction as an art form. Votes: 0

Music is an art form too. Sometimes other forms of art can be inspiring to the musician. Votes: 0

My art is a form of restoration in terms of my feelings to myself and to others. Votes: 0

The most effective way of destroying art is the canonization of one given form. And one philosophy. Votes: 0

All art is a form of hacking, it's a kind of breeching open of a closed system. Votes: 0

My worry is that opera will become an historic art form as opposed to a living, breathing thing. Votes: 0

We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth. Votes: 0

Writing is a creative art form and the acting and directing is more of an interpretive art form. Votes: 0

... the novel is called upon like no other art form to incorporate the intellectual content of an age. Votes: 0

Art is a form of asset. Hedge-fund managers who have made money fast should diversify into other areas. Votes: 0

Martial art is a form of expression, an expression from your inner self to your hands and legs. Votes: 0

What is interesting about self-analysis is that it leads nowhere - it is an art form in itself. Votes: 0

I've always felt that music is an art form that deserves to live the life of the artist. Votes: 0

That's something lacking in a lot of modern-day families - just talking. It's almost a lost art form. Votes: 0

The function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible. Votes: 0

All great literature has an uncreeded and luminous theology behind it... Art [is] a form of active prayer. Votes: 0

God must love art because most of the Bible is expressed in the form of story or poetry. Votes: 0

I have frequently stated that I regard chess as an art form, where creativity prevails over other factors. Votes: 0

Seek art from every time and place, in any form, to connect with those who really move you. Votes: 0

Knowing when you're not good at something and knowing when you are good at something is an art-form. Votes: 0

Punk rock has become another viable art form. It always was. But now it's like everyone's doing it. Votes: 0

Theatre is the art form of the present: it exists only in the present, and then it's gone. Votes: 0

Being an art form, verse cannot be "free" in the sense of having no limitations or guiding principle. Votes: 0

Always keep your ego in check and not be afraid to listen. Listening is a great art form. Votes: 0

Immodest and attractive is easy. Modest and repulsive is easy too. But modest and attractive is an art form. Votes: 0

Books work as an art form (and an economic one) because they are primarily the work of an individual. Votes: 0

While appropriation art is critical to art, it's an ambiguous art form in the world of the Supreme Court. Votes: 0

Songwriting is a very frustrating art form. You have to get on tape exactly what's playing inside your head Votes: 0

Art is a form of supremely delicate awareness... meaning at-oneness, the state of being at one with the object. Votes: 0

When artists give form to revelation, their art can advance, deepen and potentially transform the consciousness of their community. Votes: 0

I like natural disasters and I think that they may be the highest form of art possible to experience Votes: 0

There is no point where art so nearly touches nature as when it appears in the form of words. Votes: 0

One of the things that's good for me is that I can go from one art form to another. Votes: 0

Yes, I am a thorough republican. No other form of government is so favorable to the growth of art. Votes: 0

My study of religion, which I regard in many ways as an art form, is a search for meaning. Votes: 0

I love music videos, I really do. I think it's kind of sad that it's a dying art form. Votes: 0

Music gets us in touch with our emotions in a way that's more intimate than any other art form. Votes: 0

Opera is the ultimate art form. It has singing and music and drama and dance and emotion and story. Votes: 0

Swearing is an art form. You can express yourself much more exactly, much more succinctly, with properly used curse words. Votes: 0

If cooking becomes an art form rather than a means of providing a reasonable diet, then something is clearly wrong. Votes: 0

All art is a vision penetrating the illusions of reality, and photography is one form of this vision and revelation. Votes: 0

In America, the only truly popular art form is the movies. Most people consider painting a hobby and literature, schoolwork. Votes: 0

Radio is the art form of sports casting. If you're any good, you can do a great job on radio. Votes: 0

I think after music is performance because it is also an immaterial form of art, and then there's everything else. Votes: 0

There may be a parallel between woodcuts and radio; radio plays are a living art form everywhere except the USA. Votes: 0

I have to confess I'm not a huge comics fan in the wider sense of comics as an art form. Votes: 0

Opera is an exclusive art form, so it cannot be that popular. I just do what I love to do. Votes: 0

The prime motivation in making almost any film is success, because film is the art form of the 20th century. Votes: 0

Honesty is the best part of any art form. If you don't have that, you're kidding yourself and your listener. Votes: 0

Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter. Votes: 0

For what is philosophy but an art - one more attempt to give "significant form" to the chaos of experience? Votes: 0

Learning to trust our intuition is an art form, and like all other art forms, it takes practice to perfect. Votes: 0

Is creativity some obscure, esoteric art form? Not on your life. It's the most practical thing a business-man can employ. Votes: 0

Happiness is a talent like any other. It's another art form. Some people are good at it, some people aren't. Votes: 0

To receive gratitude with grace is a form of gratitude by itself, and not always an easy art to master. Votes: 0

Art is the reordering of nature - the qualities of space and time - in new perceptual and material form. Votes: 0

The art form is to become one with the hurdle, to make it your friend, and I embraced that process. Votes: 0

Tea is more than an idealization of the form of drinking; it is a religion of the art of life. Votes: 0

Music and acting are the same thing: you must understand that art is only the search, not the final form. Votes: 0

Fighting is an expression. It's a form of speech, and that's why they call it martial arts. It's an art. Votes: 0

Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in a memorable form - or else it is not art. Votes: 0

Acting is like any other art form, in that you have the option to go very big or go very small. Votes: 0

Opera is an extremely disciplined art form, and every excess a singer indulges in has a direct effect on the voice. Votes: 0

I don't think hip-hop is a dying art form. I think it's impossible for hip-hop to be a dying art form. Votes: 0

Like most modern Americans, I assume individuality is not only a fundamental value, but a goal in life, an art form. Votes: 0

I definitely think that fashion is a form of art and love that people can express themselves through what they wear. Votes: 0

I made nepotism an art form, so I get to work with a lot of relatives and they're part of it. Votes: 0

Because theatre is a story-telling art form, we feel entitled to assume that the playwright got there before we got there. Votes: 0

"We can't name it, but we can sing along." That is my ultimate relationship to any art form, but especially music. Votes: 0

Art is a form of intelligence, it can be developed, it's linked to intuition and it's something that all humans have Votes: 0

Non-figurative art is created by establishing a dynamic rhythm of determinate mutual relations which excludes the formation of any particular form. Votes: 0

I don't think there is such a thing as being too raunchy when it comes to the art form of burlesque. Votes: 0

If wrestling can be considered an art form, then [Ric Flair] is using oils, and the many others merely water colors. Votes: 0

A true artist is practically married to his or her art form so I just couldn't turn my back on it. Votes: 0

I think of filmmaking as a form of communication. Maybe it's also an art, but that's for somebody else to decide. Votes: 0

All of the generations go to what is chic for them, and theater seems to be an older generation's art form. Votes: 0

Jazz is an art form that depends on its antecedents, there must be respect for the people that have gone before. Votes: 0

There is no better deliverance from the world than through art, and a man can form no surer bond with it. Votes: 0

Hollywood, America's greatest modern contribution to world culture, is a business, a religion, an art form, and a state of mind. Votes: 0

Wrestling is an art form. I don't worry about those who don't get it; I worry about satisfying those who do. Votes: 0

Ive come to believe in the primacy of form - the notion of art seducing you through your senses, through your eyeballs. Votes: 0

Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic; it is merely a form of emotional masturbation... Votes: 0

Stand-up is an amazing art form, I think, because it's all about you having complete control of the situation, but absolutely none. Votes: 0

I grew up in the 80s and that was the first time advertising was considered seriously as anything resembling an art form. Votes: 0

Writing is a channeling of an individual experience; so is reading. That's what's so exciting about this art form - it's interactive. Votes: 0

I wouldnt want to be remembered as the guy who contaminated a perfectly legitimate form of protest art with money and celebrities. Votes: 0

I wouldn't want to be remembered as the guy who contaminated a perfectly legitimate form of protest art with money and celebrities. Votes: 0

Writing as an art form belongs to all people, regardless of economic class or educational level. . . . A writer is someone who writes. Votes: 0

Death is imposed only on creatures, not their creations, and has therefore always appeared in art in a broken form: as allegory. Votes: 0

Death is imposed only on creatures, not their creations, and has therefore always appeared in art in a broken form: as allegory. Votes: 0

I don't think theater is dying, and musicals are a great American art form. We've got apple pie, jazz and musical theater. Votes: 0

Many have genius, but, wanting art, are forever dumb. The two must go together to form the great poet, painter, or sculptor. Votes: 0

There is a definite argument to be made that videogames are becoming an art form put together by artists of different types. Votes: 0

I've come to believe in the primacy of form - the notion of art seducing you through your senses, through your eyeballs. Votes: 0

A blind man can make art if what is in his mind can be passed to another mind in some tangible form. Votes: 0

Television as we have it isn't an art form - it's a piece of furniture that is good for a few things. Votes: 0

If you consider yourself a part of the culture, then finances can't allow you to be bigger than the actual art form. Votes: 0

Jazz comes from our way of life, and because it's our national art form, it helps us to understand who we are. Votes: 0

A lot of people who get into any art form have some form of mental..something in their head which is unstable Votes: 0

I chose faces and figures as my subject matter simply due to the fact that the human form is already beautiful art. Votes: 0

To me, figure skating is an art form, and that's what I always try to bring in, even to my competitive programs. Votes: 0

A chair is not just a product of decorative art in a space, it is a form and a space in itself Votes: 0

In Washington, of course, evading responsibility is an art form, so it is not always easy to tell who's responsible for which mess. Votes: 0

There is a lot of snobbery towards pop music, to me and pop in general - it's kind of a despised art form. Votes: 0

In movies, storytelling and every single art form, we're creating wonder. You're starting with a blank page and creating something that doesn't exist. Votes: 0

I'm fascinated with video games, though I can't really play them. It's definitely an art form that intrigues me to no end, though. Votes: 0

. . . rock and roll, as I see it, is the ultimate populist art form, democracy in action, because it's true: anybody can do it. Votes: 0

Hollywood was born schizophrenic. For 75 years it has been both a town and a state of mind, an industry and an art form. Votes: 0

No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul. Votes: 0

Film is the only art form whose raw materials are so horrendously expensive that the artist cannot afford to buy them for himself. Votes: 0

Sometimes words are not needed, and the simplicity of expressing yourself through an art form is one of the best ways of communication. Votes: 0

Being an artist is dragging your innermost feelings out, giving a piece of yourself, no matter in which art form, in which medium. Votes: 0

Look. Art knows no prejudice, art knows no boundaries, art doesn't really have judgement in it's purest form. So just go, just go. Votes: 0

I think a craft becomes an art form when the space of possible solutions becomes so huge that engineering can't carry you through. Votes: 0

To be honest, I sort of feel like 'movie actor' isn't of this time. I love it. But it's a 20th-century art form. Votes: 0

Wrestling needs to be about the art form again. It needs to be about painting a picture and having a really good match. Votes: 0

A richer present I design, A finished form, of work divine, Surpassing all the power of art; A thinking head, a grateful heart. Votes: 0

I wasn't trying to turn graffiti into an art form. I just wanted to learn about art. I wanted to learn this game. Votes: 0

I'll walk through fire to do what I do because the movie business, when it's right, is the coolest art form ever invented. Votes: 0

The most fundamental truth to be told in any art form, as far as Blacks are concerned, is that America is killing us. Votes: 0

Being content with what you have already is an art form that leads to a peace that can't be replaced by anything else. Votes: 0

In the art of design, color is to form what verse is to prose,--a more harmonious and luminous vehicle of the thought. Votes: 0

Freeform radio is an art form. The airwaves are the empty canvas, the producer is the artist, and the sound is the paint. Votes: 0

Movies will end up being this esoteric art form, where only singular people will put films out in a small group of theaters. Votes: 0

For the canons of good society are, or should be, the same as the canons of art. Form is absolutely essential to it. Votes: 0

It's a collaborative art form where we can both learn something from the other. That's what you want from the relationship with a director. Votes: 0

It's not enough for me to cover theater, I have to throw myself around every other art form, and do so thoroughly and relentlessly. Votes: 0

Prepared and fast foods have given us the time and freedom to see cooking as an art form - a form of creative expression. Votes: 0

As I've gotten less righteous, less pedagogic, I have become more loving of the artificiality, the art form, the imitation of life in film. Votes: 0

It is a peculiar art form, but I think it's a necessary art form - and I do believe it's a noble art form. Votes: 0

I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians. Votes: 0

I started connecting things to my body during my childhood. I approached the computer as a mediating element, as a form of visual art. Votes: 0

An art form requires genius. People of genius are always troublemakers, meaning they start from scratch, demolish accepted norms, and rebuild a new world. Votes: 0

Tattooing is historical, cultural and a great form of art but it should always be safe for both the client and the tattoo practitioner. Votes: 0

The reason why the music [jazz] is important is because it's an art form-an ancient art form-that takes in the mythology of our people. Votes: 0

The novel is the first art form that is an honest-to-god commodity. That's what makes it different from both high art and folk art. Votes: 0

Comics, at least in periodical form, exist almost entirely free of any pretense; the critical world of art hardly touches them, and they're 100% personal. Votes: 0

Autonomy, adventure, imagination: entrepreneurshi p comprehends all this and more for us. The characteristic art form of our age may be the business plan. Votes: 0

The party is a true art form in Sydney and people practise it a great deal. You can really get quite lost in it. Votes: 0

I don't think that jazz, as any kind of an art form, has any permanence attached to it, apart from the practitioners of it. Votes: 0

Cooking hasn't yet been accepted as the art form it is. It should be on the level with any of the other art forms. Votes: 0

I don't care about my "impact" - I only care about the theater as an art form and criticism as an act of writing. Votes: 0

90% of every art form is garbage - dance and stand-up, painting and music. Focus on the 10% that's good, suck it up, and drive on. Votes: 0

There is no art form that has so much in common with film as music. Both affect our emotions directly, not via the intellect. Votes: 0

The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. Authority over him and his art is ridiculous. Votes: 0

I always argued against the auteur theory; films are a collaborative art form. I've had some fantastically good people help me make the movies. Votes: 0

Comedy is really not like any other art form in that it's very specialized and varied in it's content, but generic in it's title. Votes: 0

I believe that people have to be sensitized more about the many jobs an individual can branch out to after studying an art form. Votes: 0

Jazz is about the only form of art existing today in which there is freedom of the individual without the loss of group contact. Votes: 0

Hip hop is still strong. As an art form, music helps people express themselves, find meaning in their own lives and connect with their tribes. Votes: 0

Disco deserved a better name, a beautiful name because it was a beautiful art form. It made the consumer beautiful. The consumer was the star. Votes: 0

To me, movies are valuable as an art form and as a wonderful means of popular entertainment. But I think movies have gone terribly wrong. Votes: 0

The importance of colour is as nothing compared with that of form, chiaroscuro and arrangement. They are the true and enduring bases of pictorial art. Votes: 0

There is something about seeing real people on a stage that makes a bad play more intimately, more personally offensive than any other art form. Votes: 0

I've worked with some great orchestras and amazing classical musicians, but I don't like the conceptualization of classical music as an elitist form of art. Votes: 0

Hip-hop is such a disposable art form from a business standpoint. It never treats its artists as art; it never treats its product as art. Votes: 0

Run DMC brought us out of that underground-only feel. They brought rap above ground and made it respectable as an art form to mainstream music. Votes: 0

The first things to study are form and values. For me, these are the things that are the basics of what is serious in art. Votes: 0

I'm delighted with it, because it used to be that films were the lowest form of art. Now we've got something to look down on. Votes: 0

I was an artist, but not a self-proclaimed great artist, just a common man who was working in a form of art which is universal. Votes: 0

New Orleans jazz is a complex and embracing art form that began about the same time as the blues and encompassed many of its excellences. Votes: 0

Movies were never an art form, they were entertainment. It just evolved into an art form from there, and it's still evolving in different ways. Votes: 0

Madame Schmid belonged to that large class of persons who believe that a man who engages in any form of art is necessarily a loafer. Votes: 0

The number of opera houses around the world and the high attendance rates show that opera an art form that is more popular than ever. Votes: 0

There still is some opposition to it in some museums and art schools, but I think photography has really grown into a mature art form. Votes: 0

I'm especially interested in the music of John Cage.. ..I would like to do some experimenting with the relationship between his freeform sound and free-form art. Votes: 0

We believe that the cinema's capacity for getting around, for observing and selecting from life itself can be exploited in a new and vital art form Votes: 0

Acting is somewhat mysteriously taught. There are so many different methods and systems and processes for teaching acting because it will always be an elusive art-form. Votes: 0

As long as there are musicians who have a passion for spontaneity, for creating something that's never been before, the art form of jazz will flourish. Votes: 0

Conversing with children is a fine art.... An art form that demands large amounts of both honesty and misdirection. Or maybe discretion is a better word. Votes: 0

When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine. Votes: 0

The newsprint thesp celebrity interview as a middle-brow art form suffers from desperate overproduction. There'll be at least 10 in the broadsheets today and every Sunday hereafter. Votes: 0

As long as there are musicians who have a passion for spontaneity, for creating something thats never been before, the art form of jazz will flourish. Votes: 0

Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change. It can not only move us, it makes us move. Votes: 0

If a work of art is to explore new environments, it is not to be regarded as a blueprint but rather as a form of action-painting. Votes: 0

Form your life humanly, and you have done enough: but you will never reach the height of art and the depth of science without something divine. Votes: 0

Writing is the only art form where a good number of the artists make a slice of their living criticizing one another in print, in public. Votes: 0

I don't think that any 'ism' is higher than literature or art. So I'm a formalist. I greatly honor and respect the form of a work. Votes: 0

According to me [Sigmund ] Freud did not notice that the dream expresses the inner experiences in a symbolic form,resembling in that, poetry or other art forms. Votes: 0

For nine years I worked to change what was hairdressing then into a geometric art form with color, perm without setting which had never been done before. Votes: 0

The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessible. Votes: 0

If you're someone who's making film or TV or music, or any kind of art form now, there's a billion outlets and they all have an opinion. Votes: 0

I think pornography is the only art form where you can be videotaped on a shaky handy cam sucking off a horse and be considered a star. Votes: 0

I just wish the crowd I was associated with was more passionate about what they were doing and less consumed with the commerce of the art form. Votes: 0

I think that other people covering my work is really exciting... Im really open to that kind of thing because I think interpretation is an art form... Votes: 0

Movies are brand new. Film is less than 150 years old. It's brand new, compared to any other art form, all of which are thousands of years old. Votes: 0

Undeniably the American art form, too. And yet more and more, we see films made that diminish the American experience and example. And sometimes trash it completely. Votes: 0

In Harlan, Kentucky, we told stories the way some people play music. ... In the mountains, storytelling is truly an art form, and as much recreation as communication. Votes: 0

Whereas painting is a more rarefied art form, with a limited audience, I recognized film as this extraordinary social tool that could reach tremendous numbers of people. Votes: 0

This was my first novel [The Dissemblers ]. I've never seriously written short stories, and actually find short stories much more intimidating as an art form than novels. Votes: 0

Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change - it can not only move us, it makes us move. Votes: 0

Though some may think there should be a separation between art/music and politics, it should be reinforced that art can be a form of nonviolent protest. Votes: 0

Conceptual art, for me, means work in which the idea is paramount and the material form is secondary, lightweight, ephemeral, cheap, unpretentious and/or ‘dematerialized’ Votes: 0

Visual media is the dominant art form in our present day culture, whereas poetry is, at best, a proxy. Yet poetry and film are both "dream factories." Votes: 0

Visionary idealism is a male art form. The lesbian aesthete does not exist. But if there were one, she would have learned from the perverse male mind. Votes: 0

If the group is an art form of the future, then convening groups is an artistry we must cultivate to fully harvest the promise of the future. Votes: 0

Ideas alone can be works of art; they are in a chain of development that may eventually find some form. All ideas need not be made physical. Votes: 0

Whether our work is art or science or the daily work of society, it is only the form in which we explore our experience which is different. Votes: 0

Fashion is one of the most beautiful forms of art we have. It's a form of art that every person gets to possess and create for themselves. Votes: 0

Today's cinema is a global art form, it is impossible to make movies for a market the size of France, representing no more than 4% of the world's total. Votes: 0

The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity. Votes: 0

There's the fact that animation is extremely time-consuming, tedious, labor-intensive, and therefore, extremely expensive as an art form to really do it right, to really do full animation. Votes: 0

Cinema is still a very young art form with extraordinary techniques and very impressive special effects but sometimes it seems the soul has been taken out of things. Votes: 0

I've always thought of the book as a visual art form, and it should represent a single artistic idea, which it does if you write your own material. Votes: 0

Boxing is really an art form. It might just look like two people beating each other up, but when you look closer, it's actually quite beautiful and interesting. Votes: 0

Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks. Votes: 0

Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks Votes: 0

We need to remind ourselves that contemporary art is first of all a form of conceptual gymnastics, in which we learn to coexist with what we don't understand. Votes: 0

Art without accomplishment becomes a form of faith, sustained more by the intensity of its common practice than by the pleasure it gives to its adherents in private. Votes: 0

Celebrity has become, for better or worse, an art form. An artist can use themselves as a medium to become a celebrity as a walking work of art. Votes: 0

I think rap definitely has its place in the art world. I think it is an art form. But, just like any art form, you can misuse it. Votes: 0

I think comedy has evolved like every art form, and people probably do less standing around and telling jokes, and more things that have to do with reality. Votes: 0

I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into film in some way. Votes: 0

I was a huge Muppet fan growing up, but that was the extent of my puppet knowledge. I really loved the art form and the whole Henson universe. Votes: 0

As one passion begins to fail it is necessary to form another, for the whole art of going through life tolerably is to keep oneself eager about anything. Votes: 0

The musical has always been in jeopardy - until - or was in jeopardy until it was realised that it is probably the safest living theatre art form. Votes: 0

Art always serves beauty, and beauty is the joy of possessing form, and form is the key to organic life since no living thing can exist without it. Votes: 0

The work of art expresses precisely those things which do not die. It must do so, however, in a form that bears witness to the artist's own era. Votes: 0

Writing is no dying art form in America because most published writers here accept the wisdom and the necessity of encouraging the talent that follows in their footsteps. Votes: 0

I have the opportunity to learn about the fashion world, and I appreciate it as an art form... But I never want it to take over my acting. Votes: 0

I never approved of talkies. Silent movies were well on their way to developing an entirely new art form. It was not just pantomine, but something wonderfully expressive. Votes: 0

People understand what art is supposed to look like, and so it's easy to make something that looks like art but isn't - especially in an abstract form. Votes: 0

The vitality of art is its capacity for infinite expansion. One form doesn't preclude another any more than the existence of Mozart makes the existence of Bach superfluous." Votes: 0

After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved science and art tend to coalesce in aesthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are artists as well. Votes: 0

Photography, like any other art, is a form of communication. The artist is not blowing bubbles for his own gratification, but is speaking a language, is telling somebody something. Votes: 0

The highest art form of all is a human being in control of himself and his airplane in flight, urging the spirit of a machine to match his own. Votes: 0

Surely the novel should be a form of art - but art was not enough. It must contain not only the perfection of art, but the imperfection of nature. Votes: 0

Storytelling, a primitive art, is as old as the beginning of mankind. People want to receive what's out there in the form of stories, not just facts, opinion, analysis. Votes: 0

One can compare art education to the solid foundation for a house - once it's built properly, it will hold any shape or form you will place on it. Votes: 0

Of course, music is an art form, and it's not all that competitive. But we don't ever intend to be the second-best band on a stage at any show. Votes: 0

Like every art form, there are jealousies and angers and competitiveness in magic. But there's camaraderie among magicians, whether you perform it for a living or you're an enthusiast. Votes: 0

Facility is an obstacle to any creativeness. In any art form. You get a nice effect without effort, sometimes by accident, and you're satisfied; but there's nothing substantial underneath. Votes: 0

Art, whatever form it takes, requires hard work, craftsmanship and creativity. As a writer, I know my grammar, cadence, the music of prose, and the art of the narrative. Votes: 0

At culinary school, none of the things we use to define ourselves outside that world - actor, producer, student - none of that matters. It's a magical art form. Votes: 0

The form of a work of art, which gives speech to their thoughts and is, therefore, their mode of talking, is always somewhat uncertain, like all kinds of speech. Votes: 0

Dance removes you from this construct of the world that you have, and it's a conversation that you're having with people. That's how dance grew, as an art form. Votes: 0

The point of art is not simply to express ourselves, but to create an external, concrete form in which the soul of our lives can be evoked and contained. Votes: 0

Fantasy (in this sense) is, I think, not a lower but a higher form of Art, indeed the most nearly pure form, and so (when achieved) the most potent. Votes: 0

A work of art can only come from the interior of man. Art is the form of the image formed upon the nerves, heart, brain and eye of man. Votes: 0

Everywhere there is craft and technique; everywhere there is artistry and form. Art itself, technique, is ponderous and clumsy, and because of its awkwardness it obstructs that inner element... Votes: 0

My activism has to do with my conscience; I cannot let certain things slide without doing something. My public speaking is part of an art form that is cultural. Votes: 0

Each moment calls for a different stylistic essence and a different sense of impact, and mastery of this balance is an art form - a very learnable art form. Votes: 0

Clothing is viral, impermanent in a way that public art cannot be. So I like thinking of how corporate-created clothing can be seen as a form of public art. Votes: 0

There's no such thing as a war against terrorism. It's idiotic. These are slogans. These are lies. It's advertising, which is the only art form we ever invented and developed. Votes: 0

I don't feel that rap has been respected as an art form. Because people have seen rappers rap off the top of their heads, they don't think it is difficult. Votes: 0

I think movies are now like going to a museum and seeing the latest exhibit - people just aren't going. It really is a dying art form. It feels frustrating. Votes: 0

Chicago was where I realized that improv is its own thing, its own art form. And through that, you kind of develop a work ethic of not selling it short. Votes: 0

If you're not comfortable with delay, frustration and impatience, get out of the Senate. It's the nature of the institution, but I think we've taken it to an art form. Votes: 0

Scapegrace leaped up. “I am the Killer Supreme! I make murder into an art form!” Skulduggery hit him again and Scapegrace did a little twirl before falling. Votes: 0

Whatever art form you're working in, it's crucial to see it clearly, to feel it clearly, and not to worry about the results, or how someone else will see it. Votes: 0

There are only two reasons that anybody does something for 50 years. You've got to believe in what you are doing and love the art form. I love harmony-tight, close harmony. Votes: 0

The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle. Votes: 0

Basketball isn't a game; It's an art form. You master the fundamentals so you can forget 'em, so you can improvise and just concentrate on what really matters: getting buckets. Votes: 0

Country and western is ignored by the intellectuals. They don't look at it as an art form. They think it's just somebody sitting on his couch singing about his life. Votes: 0

I don't consider myself a songwriter, I've tried, I've written a few with friends but that's an art form I'm gonna leave to guys like Jimmy Ritchey and Kevin Fowler. Votes: 0

You can't but know that if you can capture the emotions of the audience as well as their minds, the play will work better, because it's a narrative art form. Votes: 0

When a stock doubles, sell half - then what you have is a free position. Then it becomes more of an art form. When you sell depends on individual circumstances. Votes: 0

I think of fashion as an art form as well as an industrial product - and something that has to be sold well and has to be of high quality. Votes: 0

I started doing roles and working with people that I really respected and became passionate about the art form of acting. And I'm still trying to figure it out. Still learning. Votes: 0

The death of every art form seems imminent at least once in every century; but while the very funeral arrangements go forward, some child is born who is Michelangelo, Picasso, Yeats. Votes: 0

Music is an art form that doesn't need to be explained. It needs to be performed; it needs to be felt; it needs to be listened to; it needs to progress. Votes: 0

There's always stress involved in any genre or art form, there's always going to be a struggle. If there's no struggle, you wouldn't do anything. What are you going do? Retire? Votes: 0

I've always been fascinated with the juxtaposition of technology in music, not only in recording, but in the keyboard. It's amazing the way you can apply technology to an art form. Votes: 0

A comedian, or any artist, needs their time to develop what they are doing. There has to be some respect for the art form and when it's allowed to be seen. Votes: 0

You don't have to be Picasso or Rembrandt to create something. The fun of it, the joy of creating, is way high above anything else to do with the art form. Votes: 0

Hosting is an art form. Like acting, singing, or comedy hosting is a craft. It's a delicate dance of timing, the ability to read the room, and the art of conversation. Votes: 0

When you eliminate vanity from an art form, and I would think that this would be any art form, what is left is an opportunity to be incredibly naked and truthful. Votes: 0

I can't satisfy myself with just trying to tie all of my imagination into music, especially when music is not appreciated as an art form as much as it used to be. Votes: 0

The tensions are always based on financial resources. Something like film is very problematic because it is viewed as an art form and also as an industry with a pure commercial base. Votes: 0

Black and white is a very minimalist art form and unlike color photographs does not pretend to mimic the world in a manner similar to the way the human eye might perceive... Votes: 0

Technology is technology and then art form and people's creativity is another thing. Anything that helps an artist do anything - great! Technology for technology sake doesn't mean much to me anyway. Votes: 0

I think for a long time it seemed like working in an art form and being a feminist meant portraying women in a perfect, angelic light. And there's nothing feminist about that. Votes: 0

The very best way I can make any reader believe in the nuts and bolts of an art form... is to know the mechanics, to make the characters grounded in convincing detail. Votes: 0

Hip-hop was started as a very egocentric, testosterone, machismo-driven art form. The way that people are trying to take away that masculinity that is a such an intrinsical part of hip-hop music. Votes: 0

I started skateboarding at around age 10, and enjoyed the artistic aspect of it as much as the sporting aspect, so for me it was more of an art form and a lifestyle. Votes: 0

Those of us who have tested gravity under a hoop know its mystical properties. Robin Layton, as I would have expected, has turned this staple of Americana into a gorgeous art form. Votes: 0

The only art form that Americans have created that's recognized around the world is jazz music born in a community that had the peculiar experience of being unfree in a free land. Votes: 0

We play different people - our art form is performance art - so unless you're playing the same type of person, I don't know if you could improve or make it worse. Votes: 0

I think it's very important for any actor to eventually produce, and create the projects they want to create. I believe it's all a part of the same art form, which is storytelling. Votes: 0

An important document of the paper of record at a crucial, make-or-break juncture in its long, glorious history, and a love letter to the dying art form that is the great American newspaper. Votes: 0

I've always been fascinated with the strong emotional ties that music can have. A song can bring you back to a place or a season of life like no other art form can. Votes: 0

As an art form, opera is a rare and remarkable creation. For me, it expresses aspects of the human drama that cannot be expressed in any other way, or certainly not as beautifully. Votes: 0

I'd always wanted to tell people that when I work on my body I'm thinking about classical sculpture, so I jumped at the chance to show off body building as an art form. Votes: 0

I think it's sad that movies and television have caused the theatre to fade as a popular art form. I hope to get young people into the theatre and expose them to Shakespeare. Votes: 0

I think its sad that movies and television have caused the theatre to fade as a popular art form. I hope to get young people into the theatre and expose them to Shakespeare. Votes: 0

I believe that we respond most and best to work in any art form (and to other experience as well) if we are pluralistic, flexible, relative in our judgments, if we are electic. Votes: 0

I love rock-n-roll. I think it's an exciting art form. It's revolutionary. Still revolutionary and it changed people. It changed their hearts. But yeah, even rock-n-roll has a lot of rubbish, really bad music. Votes: 0

What cultural revolutionaries do not seem to grasp is that, far from being a grass-roots art form that has been taken over by businessmen, rock itself comes from the commercial exploitation of the blues. Votes: 0

The realm of classical music is so vast - not only in terms of style but of era, age and the purposes for which it was composed - it is an enormous art form. Votes: 0

I don't think rap really fits in to 'American Idol' in the sense that I believe rap is an art form in itself more akin to poetry, more akin to drama, if you will. Votes: 0

Acting is an art form. If you are not creating something that's unusual and informative and at least has the possibility of being illuminating, then you are not into it as an art form. Votes: 0

I love music. I think it's a higher art form, in a way, than movies. You know, a film you see once, maybe twice. A song will follow you forever. It's a magical thing. Votes: 0

[Jazz] is a music of freedom and wonder. It's our indigenous art form, and I'm still blessed to travel around the world and people lay out the carpet for us, so it's quite touching. Votes: 0

I have spent my life paying attention to my art form, developing my art form, worrying about my show and what I'm bringing to people, making sure that I give them a fine trade. Votes: 0

Yes, bad or mediocre ballets can be useful to the dancers and temporarily fun for the audience, but in the long run, the lowering of standards can only erode the art form we all love. Votes: 0

Film editing is now something almost everyone can do at a simple level and enjoy it, but to take it to a higher level requires the same dedication and persistence that any art form does. Votes: 0

I've loved the opportunity to learn about the fashion world and appreciate it as an art form, and I look forward to my continued education, but I never want it to take over my acting. Votes: 0

Motion pictures are the art form of the 20th century, and one of the reasons is the fact that films are a slightly corrupted artform. They fit this century - they combine Art and business! Votes: 0

The only advice I would give Christians entering the world of arts: give yourself a period of time, maybe three or four years. If you haven't made it in your chosen art form, dump it. Votes: 0

What happens when an art form becomes ambiguous, I think, is that the standards are lowered. You can say anything is jazz. So I think it's important to reflect on what made jazz so special. Votes: 0

I don't know if I hadn't grown up poor, and in the neighborhood I did, if I would have had that much to bring to my art form. I call upon my past with characters. Votes: 0

I think I realized it was an art form at the beginning, but it took me a really long time before I was able to view what I was performing myself as an art form. Votes: 0

Novel writing is the slowest art form in the world. It is not a sprint. It is not even a marathon. It is a series of marathons that stretch over and over across a continent. Votes: 0

At its best, cinema does retain a remarkable ability to speak to people of every age, from every background, and in ways that almost any other art form in popular culture struggles to compete with. Votes: 0

What I do as an art form is try to make people feel good and if I do try to make them feel bad, it's for a reason. There's something I am trying to say. Votes: 0

The novel is perhaps the highest art form because it so closely resembles life: it is about human relationships. It's technique, page by page, resembles our technique of living day by day-a way of relating. Votes: 0

Avant-garde architects have never been able to depend on the support of the establishment, since the customary patrons of this most conservative and slowly moving art form have historically been resistant to innovation and experiment. Votes: 0