Art form Quotes

One can be a great artist without being a great technician. There have been many famous ballet stars who did not have…

— Fernando Bujones

Comedy, although it is not one of the fine arts - it's a vulgar art, it's one of the people's arts, it's…

— George Carlin

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

— Curtis Jackson

Stage performing is a dying art form.

— Ronnie Spector

I'm very interested in dance, and I'm very interested in how people express themselves through movement. And of course, cinema is a…

— Joe Wright

The book it reminded me of most is Henry Miller’s The Books in My Life. Like Miller, Shields manages to convey his…

— Andre Alexis

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

— Sam Kinison

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

— Renee Fleming

Dick Clark was a really great influence in my career; he helped me a lot with his whole organization, and they were…

— Cyndi Lauper

“Whenever an art form loses its fire, when it gets weakened by intellectual inbreeding and first principles fade into stale tradition, a…

— Christopher McDougall

I think movies are now like going to a museum and seeing the latest exhibit - people just aren't going. It really…

— Parker Posey

Photography was inspired by painting, cinema by theatre and photography, I don't believe that any new art form was ever created from…

— David Cage

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

— Jason Marsden

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

Every innovation scraps its immediate predecessor and retrieves still older figures – it causes floods of antiques or nostalgic art forms and…

— Marshall McLuhan

In my opinion nobody owns the patent on the art form of professional wrestling and the way it does its business.

— Austin Aries

He [A. J. Balfour] was eminently one of the Cole Porter school of famous men, who only fell to rise again. Picking…

— Arthur Balfour

You always want to try and evolve an art form. It's not a very humble ambition; it reeks of arrogance. If you…

— Jay Baruchel

When I started in the comic book business, 'Art Of' books were strictly the provenance of the greats, like Rembrandt and Da…

— Jim Starlin

Hollywood was born schizophrenic. For 75 years it has been both a town and a state of mind, an industry and an…

— Richard Corliss

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

Look for positive people and situations. Call a friend who sees the good in others. Spend time with a colleague who affirms…

— Nate

My definition [of genius] would be about being completely involved in your art form. So that's outside of sciences. Within the arts…

— Russell Crowe

The most important thing about Jazz at Lincoln Center is the fact that it's the first time that perhaps the most important…

— Rafael Vinoly

My activism has to do with my conscience; I cannot let certain things slide without doing something. My public speaking is part…

— Lee Maracle