. . . rock and roll, as I see it, is the ultimate populist art form, democracy in action, because it's true:… — Lester Bangs Copy Share Image
Stand-up is one of the art forms where you don't have to look nice, and I hope it stays that way. — Roisin Conaty Copy Share Image
Honesty is the best part of any art form. If you don't have that, you're kidding yourself and your listener. — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
Opera is an exclusive art form, so it cannot be that popular. I just do what I love to do. — Anna Netrebko Copy Share Image
Because theatre is a story-telling art form, we feel entitled to assume that the playwright got there before we got there. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Cinema is very important to me. I derive a lot of strength from this art form, and I believe that it is… — Parvathy Copy Share Image
Ballet is like any other art form in that we all start out knowing nothing about it. — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
Learning to trust our intuition is an art form, and like all other art forms, it takes practice to perfect. — Shakti Gawain Copy Share Image
I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form, but as a medium of information. When I write an advertisement,… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
I don't wait on the music industry to qualify me or give me my paycheck. I go about my business as an… — Perry Farrell Copy Share Image
The problem with a popular art form is that those who want something more are in a hopeless minority compared with the… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
Movie making is not like other art forms, like painting, or writing a novel, because that can be digested or interpreted... It… — M. Night Shyamalan Copy Share Image
Hip hop - it's an art form but it's a culture as well. You grow up in the culture and you never… — LeCrae Copy Share Image
Because I am a storyteller I live by words. Perhaps music is a purer art form. It may be that when we… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I could be just a writer very easily. I am not a writer. I am a screenwriter, which is half a filmmaker...… — Paul Schrader Copy Share Image
I was an English major in college, I went to a creative-writing program, and all my life, I really read and thought… — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
“Judging your early artistic efforts is artist abuse. This happens in any number of ways: beginning work is measured against the masterworks… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
“Dinner is the most like jazz of all the meals, in that jazz is part form and part improvisation. You decide what… — Deborah L. Halliday Copy Share Image
“All of human civilization, he says, is basically a result of immortality projects: the cities and governments and structures and authorities in… — Mark Manson Copy Share Image
“The pain and exhaustion of her body dropped away from her mind as she gathered the energy of the world and let… — J.D. Lakey Copy Share Image
“He is a good, kind man,” said Mma Potokwane. “And such men are often too busy. I have noticed that round here… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
I think the power of the short film is incredibly underrated. It is way easier to get someone to watch a 15-minute… — Nicholas Ozeki Copy Share Image
Narrative, fiction filmmaking is the culmination of several art forms: theater, art history, architecture. Whereas doc filmmaking is more pure cinema, like… — George Hickenlooper Copy Share Image
“One day the English language is going to perish. The easy spokenness of it will perish and go black and crumbly —… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
The realm of classical music is so vast - not only in terms of style but of era, age and the purposes… — David Finckel Copy Share Image
I just hope people see the work that I'm doing. I hope they acknowledge comedy and what an art form it is.… — Janelle James Copy Share Image
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
I really respect those guys that get $250,000 for punching up scripts, because it's an art form. — Bert Kreischer Copy Share Image
You know, I feel like my job is to write a book. Then filmmakers come and they make a movie. And they're… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
Cinema is a form of art, and like every other art form, cinema also needs freedom of expression. — Taapsee Pannu Copy Share Image
Acting was a hobby for me when I started out, or maybe it was because there weren't a lot of examples of… — Regina King Copy Share Image
Like most modern Americans, I assume individuality is not only a fundamental value, but a goal in life, an art form. — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
People are really seeing that drag is an art form, that it's so much more than self-expression. — Sasha Velour Copy Share Image
Wrestling is an art form. I don't worry about those who don't get it; I worry about satisfying those who do. — Paul Heyman Copy Share Image
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… — Leslie Fiedler Copy Share Image
I do feel a commitment to this art form and to my father's teachings, and the older I am getting, the more… — Anoushka Shankar Copy Share Image
There are documentaries that will just save your life and be the conduit to the art form you started out loving. — Debra Granik Copy Share Image
Just like music, I consider wrestling to be an art form, and I have a vision of what that art should look… — Austin Aries Copy Share Image
As I've gotten less righteous, less pedagogic, I have become more loving of the artificiality, the art form, the imitation of life… — Ira Sachs Copy Share Image
I do feel a commitment to this art form and to my father's teaching, and I think the older I get I'm… — Anoushka Shankar Copy Share Image
