When musical theatre is working and people are really connecting with the characters, and then the music adds that strong emotional element,… — Stephen Schwartz Copy Share Image
The condition of the theater is always an accurate measure of the cultural health of a nation. A play always exists in… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
“If professional religious leaders cannot instruct us in mythological lore, our artists and creative writers can perhaps step into this priestly role… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
As for the author, he is profoundly unaware of what the classical or romantic genre might consist of… In literature, as in… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Beauty is the only human aspect which cannot be captured on any canvas howsoever hard an artist tries. At the most, the… — Faraaz Kazi Copy Share Image
Actually, I am helping everybody by doing remixes. It is also like a cause for me because I think artists who are… — Tanishk Bagchi Copy Share Image
I have a fondness for making paintings that go beyond just having a conversation about art for art's sake or having a… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
In the sixties, the recycling of pop culture turning it into Pop art and camp had its own satirical zest. Now we're… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
To be a performance artist, you have to hate theatre. Theatre is fake... The knife is not real, the blood is not… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
Really, universally, relations stop nowhere, and the exquisite problem of the artist is eternally but to draw, by a geometry of his… — Henry James Copy Share Image
The art of writing, like the art of love, runs all the way from a kind of routine hard to distinguish from… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“The Nobodies Who are not, but could be. Who don't speak languages, but dialects. Who don't have religions, but superstitions. Who don't… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
Why was the painting made? What ideas of the artist can we sense? Can the personality and sensitivity of the artist be… — Gerald Brommer Copy Share Image
The Arts and Sciences, essential to the prosperity of the State and to the ornament of human life, have a primary claim… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Most artists should be able to make the album that they want. You don't necessarily pick the singles that you want when… — Wale Copy Share Image
Truth is the first thing that present-day literature lacks. The writer has drowned himself in lies, he is too accustomed to speak… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
It always felt like you were trying too hard to look like the audience or something. That whole thing about the artistic… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
This has always been my problem with genres is that they've turned into marketing tools. I've never been a person that allows… — Ayshay Copy Share Image
Whatever they are, can Comics be "Art"? Of course they can. The "Art" in a piece is something independent of genre, form,… — Phoebe Gloeckner Copy Share Image
I love TV. I love being behind the scenes on a TV show but there's something about, I don't know there's something… — Simon Cowell Copy Share Image
“True perfection seems imperfect, yet it is perfectly itself. True fullness seems empty, yet it is fully present. True straightness seems crooked.… — Lao Tzu Copy Share Image
For me, that's one of the best validations as an artist. To have a stranger come up to you and say that… — Sarah McLachlan Copy Share Image
It is not without trepidation that I have appropriated the codes of the Sublime and the Picturesque in my work. After all,… — John Pfahl Copy Share Image
Whether I moved people to throw punches or cry, I did that through my art and what I do. I would never… — Johnny Weir Copy Share Image
I was always a weird girl in school, who did theatre and came to school with lots of red lipstick on or… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
I am in Rome! Oft as the morning ray Visits these eyes, waking at once I cry, Whence this excess of joy?… — Samuel Rogers Copy Share Image
The art of storytelling is in development, not fact sheets. There are posts you have to hammer into the ground from the… — Karen Traviss Copy Share Image
In the '80s, there was a fixed costume of a heroine, and not the physical costume, but this is what a heroine… — Shefali Shah Copy Share Image
We've had real strong aboriginal male artists who've crossed over to the mainstream who have toured the U.K., who have been a… — Jessica Mauboy Copy Share Image
Artistic creation, after all, is not subject to absolute laws, valid from age to age; since it is related to the more… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
“No artist desires to prove anything. Even things that are can be proved. No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It's a good feeling to be at a place where you know who you are as an artist. I didn't know back… — Tiffany Villarreal Copy Share Image
Poetry is - it's an art form, but, to me, it's also a weapon, it's also an instrument. It's the ability to… — Amanda Gorman Copy Share Image
"Black culture" is ready for whatever. I sense some momentum and excitement around black artists (especially in comedy, which is where most… — Baratunde Thurston Copy Share Image
These pictures possibly give rise to questions of political content or historical truth. Neither interests me in this instance. And although even… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
“Style is the answer to everything. A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thing To do a dull thing with… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Mene mene tekel upsharin,' Jace said with a faint smile. 'You don't recognize it? It's from the Bible, vampire. The old one.… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I began to wonder - I knew I was an artist or wanted to be one - but I was wondering whether… — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
“As a citizen, of course. As a parent, of course. But as an artist, that's where the paradox is - your responsibility… — David Cronenberg Copy Share Image
My mother was an artist, and I was fairly good at art as a child. I was always the best drawer in… — Natalie Babbitt Copy Share Image
