My own duty as a teacher...is not so much to interpret Beethoven, Wagner, or other masters of the past, but to give… — Antonin Dvorak Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be an actor ever since I was a little kid. I knew that I had to do something… — Ranveer Singh Copy Share Image
In history class, I wrote a poem, 'The Royalists and the Roundheads.' I would write poems about driftwood in art class and… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
Above all else, [Benny Goodman] was a great player, one of the greatest American music has produced. He brought his absolute talent… — Stanley Crouch Copy Share Image
Frank Capra, Hollywood's Horatio Alger, lights with more cinematic know-how and zeal than any other director to convince movie audiences that American… — Manny Farber Copy Share Image
There was a time in my career when I felt like I wasn't being true to myself. I was being moulded into… — Madison Beer Copy Share Image
In a way, her strangeness, her naiveté, her craving for the other half of her equation was the consequence of an idle… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
When you start to think of the arts as not this thing that is going to get you somewhere in terms of… — Lynda Barry Copy Share Image
You do well to wish to learn our arts and ways of life, and above all, the religion of Jesus Christ. These… — George Washington Copy Share Image
The unwritten rules of behaviour are infinite in number, finely shaded, and subtle to the last fraction of a degree. They are… — Hal Porter Copy Share Image
“Simplicity is the highest goal, achievable when you have overcome all difficulties. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Art and literature have given so many people the relief of feeling connected - pulled us out of isolation. It has let… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
I think that I came of age in the 1970s with my own work, and it was a time of conceptual and… — Laurie Simmons Copy Share Image
The heart of our karate is real fighting.There can be no proof without real fighting. Without proof there is no trust. Without… — Mas Oyama Copy Share Image
I never went into aesthetics. Aesthetics is what philosophers have to say about art, and a lot of them take an analytics… — Don Ihde Copy Share Image
I paint; I draw and paint - I've been doing that since I was in third grade, drawing realistically and then changing… — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
I don't have the desire to just keep every record and put it out. That's not what I do. I make records… — Rico Love Copy Share Image
The last word always belongs to the audience. ... Yes, that is a most powerful feeling. One that is worth savouring on… — Ruth Cracknell Copy Share Image
Excellence in art is to be attained only by active effort, and not by passive impressions; by the manly overcoming of difficulties,… — George Stillman Hillard Copy Share Image
Readers have a loyalty that cannot be matched anywhere else in the creative arts, which explains why so many writers who have… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I've constantly tried new things, even as a child, and have always been obsessed with pink. Now I'm just a little more… — Nicki Minaj Copy Share Image
Online is such an important platform... it's all one giant melting pot of talents. The times are changing. It's just art now.… — Lindsey Stirling Copy Share Image
When I was awarded a fellowship in poetry by the National Endowment for the Arts (for "Alphabets"), I felt myself suddenly (vaingloriously)… — Norman Lock Copy Share Image
“A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense and is… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
There are those who think that Zeffirelli's Hamlet is the way to treat Shakespeare. I think that cinema can handle much more.… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
I majored in drama and theater arts at Columbia and was always in acting studio, but that was a liberal arts degree,… — Hari Nef Copy Share Image
Due to the failure of politics, which has become a process of middle-management, art has become one of the last open spaces… — Antony Gormley Copy Share Image
I think that cinema and the arts are central in our lives because we grow up and learn about the world through… — Forest Whitaker Copy Share Image
We struggle against easel painting not because it is an aesthetic form of painting, but because it is not modern, for it… — Alexander Rodchenko Copy Share Image
It is the work of the Canadian artist to paint or play or write in such a way that life will be… — J. E. H. MacDonald Copy Share Image
Acting is primarily is where I want to go. But seeing how the visual effects guys work, and the special effects guys… — James Phelps Copy Share Image
It was just too hard from my standpoint to apply myself properly for the lessons from art school and also work 6… — Mike Royer Copy Share Image
As to the differences between game work and novel writing, well, obviously the former is a lot less lonely - you're in… — Richard K. Morgan Copy Share Image
Basically I made her [ Sara Pocock] listen to funk music for a good month, a nonstop stream of George Clinton. I… — Baron Vaughn Copy Share Image
I was always an emotional, tearful kid. As a child I was really focussed on my fine art - I took it… — Marissa Nadler Copy Share Image
The work ethic at art school is completely different than the work ethic amongst people who get into music. People who paint,… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
At the age when other children, I imagine, experience their first 'feeling' for a person, or for art, or for religion, I… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
I want and need the artist to take me to new places, and the new place that Van Gogh took me not… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
To call a work of art Kitsch is to condemn it for being bad art. But there is a great deal of… — Karsten Harries Copy Share Image
Creating art (music, books, films, etc.) can be beautiful and liberating, but trying to sell art, well, that is the movie business.… — Ronnie Apteker Copy Share Image
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