“For the canons of good society are, or should be, the same as the canons of art. Form is absolutely essential to… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
My fashion is my most prized possession for two reasons: 1) because it is a visualization of all the hard work I've… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, we played a jump rope game called double Dutch - where you had to jump over two… — Chris Gardner Copy Share Image
I'm an advocate of music in schools. It's important to me that music is in as many schools as possible across this… — Chrisette Michele Copy Share Image
I think comedy is an angry art form; it's an outsider art form. Anger and comedy are really connected. If I'm angry… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
In America, people really love movies here and it's part of the culture. Even in Germany, still sometimes, the theater is always… — Baran Odar Copy Share Image
“Writing is emblematic art form, which means that the book will never be any greater than the writer’s ability to perceive, classify,… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
I think its pretty clear that film is the pre-eminent art form of our age. If Michaelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci were… — Banksy Copy Share Image
The [Frank] Sinatra interpretation of the music, as opposed to some other music that you were listening to - where you felt… — Robert Davi Copy Share Image
There used to be an art form called the 'comedy of manners.' Why aren't comedies of manners made now in this country?… — Steve Allen Copy Share Image
If I were a carpenter, I'd find a way to empower using that skill. I'm using as much as God has given… — Avery Brooks Copy Share Image
People look at technology as sometimes an end to things, and it isn't an end in certain cases. In the movie business,… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
The great advantage of the circus, and the reason it is so popular, is really the ideal combination of art and sport.… — Robert Lepage Copy Share Image
The problem with our art form: it's so ephemeral, and catching performances can be so difficult... the important thing is what happens… — Judith Weir Copy Share Image
I'd love if between 'La La Land' and 'The Greatest Showman' we generate a new wave of movie musicals because, as an… — Michael Gracey Copy Share Image
And yet the artist will go on with his work without knowing in some way if any of his representations are sound… — Plato Copy Share Image
“But rather than relying on a thin, idealized hope that we will all one day just get along, we can approach conflict… — Diane Musho Hamilton Copy Share Image
You know, for a long time being a heavily tattooed woman was viewed as something gross, or you're either a criminal or… — Kat Von D Copy Share Image
I think casting a show is an art form in and of itself. We're all so different - the cast is made… — Ari Graynor Copy Share Image
Many science fiction writers are literary autodidacts who focus on the genre primarily as a literature of ideas rather than as a… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
Once the audience has to use themselves to cross the distance to the character, that's what's really exciting. That's when it starts… — Dallas Roberts Copy Share Image
In what I do for a living, trust and confidence are key. Inevitably, you can't make brave choices and do your best… — David Oyelowo Copy Share Image
America is a nation of liars, and for that reason science fiction has a special claim to be our national literature, as… — Thomas M. Disch Copy Share Image
If you immerse yourself too single-mindedly in your chosen art form whether it's video games, movies, comics or whatever, your work can… — Jordan Mechner Copy Share Image
Punk was sort of an angry stance against things that had happened just before, against the pop of glam rock, against progressive… — Gary Kemp Copy Share Image
No photographer should be blamed when, instead of capturing reality, he tries to show things he has seen only in his imagination.… — Philippe Halsman Copy Share Image
Leigh Bowery was actually quoted as saying, "Flesh is my most favorite fabric." I've seen many a freak make a scene and… — Boy George Copy Share Image
Sometimes it's necessary for soaps to hang on to an audience by sensationalizing, but it's a beast I don't understand any more,… — Sarah Lancashire Copy Share Image
Ragtime has about the same amount of respect as comics. And in a way they're similar art forms. Ragtime is highly compositional,… — Chris Ware Copy Share Image
Cinema is a kind of pan-art. It can use, incorporate, engulf virtually any other art: the novel, poetry, theater, painting, sculpture, dance,… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The way to take the arts seriously is not to defend this or that art form for its own sake. Pursuing arts… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
My mother Reba Vidyarthi was a Kathak dancer while my father Govind Vidyarthi was a theatre personality. Later on, he worked for… — Ashish Vidyarthi Copy Share Image
Fiction is able to do one thing better than any other art form: it is able to convey a convincing sense of… — Arthur Phillips Copy Share Image
Acting is an art form and you want to take roles that are challenged and it's more of a challenge I think… — James Franco Copy Share Image
He [A. J. Balfour] was eminently one of the Cole Porter school of famous men, who only fell to rise again. Picking… — Arthur Balfour Copy Share Image
I love the art form of songwriting. I get to carry a lot of vibes to a lot of people. My songs… — Glenn Hughes Copy Share Image
Now that a cappella is sort of coming to the forefront of the music world, I think people are starting to realize… — Mitch Grassi Copy Share Image
Stand-up is a real art form in itself and one that I really think to be good at you have to devote… — Rob Corddry Copy Share Image
I wanted to open the dialogue about race in ballet and bring more people in. It's just beautiful to see the interest… — Misty Copeland Copy Share Image
I wish people would understand that comedy is an art form, and that the same thing that makes a Picasso painting is… — Godfrey Copy Share Image