The portrait is one of the most curious art forms. It demands special qualities in the artist, and an almost total kinship… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
It's kind of a crazy art form, movies, in that you have to get it right the day you do it, generally. — Noah Baumbach Copy Share Image
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
We started combining the use of light and the use of theatrics and the use of as many art forms as possible,… — Alice Cooper Copy Share Image
Run DMC brought us out of that underground-only feel. They brought rap above ground and made it respectable as an art form… — Ice Cube Copy Share Image
My worry is that opera will become an historic art form as opposed to a living, breathing thing. — Renee Fleming Copy Share Image
Working with actors who are directors is magnificent. Because they understand the art form intimately, and they know exactly how everything works. — Robert Zemeckis Copy Share Image
In using the English language to create an entirely new art form, the pioneers of Hip Hop created a vessel that grew… — Jamaal Bowman Copy Share Image
As an art form, opera is a rare and remarkable creation. For me, it expresses aspects of the human drama that cannot… — Luciano Pavarotti Copy Share Image
Salad can get a bad rap. People think of bland and watery iceberg lettuce, but in fact, salads are an art form,… — Marcus Samuelsson Copy Share Image
I think that music is a very difficult art form in which to be avant-garde. When we sit down to listen to… — Steven Soderbergh Copy Share Image
Filmmaking is a completely imperfect art form that takes years and, over those years, the movie tells you what it is. Mistakes… — Jason Reitman Copy Share Image
I've always thought photography was an art form, but it had very low appreciation in the beginning, except for some Europeans, and… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
Though I consider The Chronology of Water to be an anti-memoir for very precise reasons, it is an art form, and thus… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
“There would be no point in asking Zaphod, he never appeared to have a reason for anything he did at all: he… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I had no interest. But after I went to Paris to see the collections for the first time… — Camilla Belle Copy Share Image
“Since the earliest days of the art form, humans have been the most difficult characters to animate. The more realistic the human… — Charles Solomon Copy Share Image
I was on Broadway for three years with Spiderman and that amount of time spent on a show - it's a grind… — Reeve Carney Copy Share Image
“Of course it's juggling,” the man in motley was saying [...] “You know what your problem is, Sir Grenall? You've been seduced… — Gerald Morris Copy Share Image
“One of the basic principles of every single art form has to do not with what’s there—the music, the words, the movement,… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“Invisible prose only!" rules out the sparkling style of [writers]. . . For [whom] vivid prose, and the visionary mind it evinces,… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Even where the game is today, cats don't really focus on necessarily what it is that you're saying so when people say,… — Nick Cannon 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
In fact I don't think of literature, or music, or any art form as having a nationality. Where you're born is simply… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
“Perhaps you are just close to what you have been waiting for all along and ideas start formulating in your mind and… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
We play different people - our art form is performance art - so unless you're playing the same type of person, I… — Regina King Copy Share Image
I've always been fascinated with the strong emotional ties that music can have. A song can bring you back to a place… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
I think a craft becomes an art form when the space of possible solutions becomes so huge that engineering can't carry you… — Bill Budge Copy Share Image
To a heart formed for friendship and affection the charms of solitude are very short-lived. — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
Diversity is strength. Our cinema and our art forms need to diversify so that it tells all stories, all perspectives. — Parvathy Copy Share Image
While appropriation art is critical to art, it's an ambiguous art form in the world of the Supreme Court. — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
As long as there are musicians who have a passion for spontaneity, for creating something thats never been before, the art form… — Charlie Haden Copy Share Image
I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
When you eliminate vanity from an art form, and I would think that this would be any art form, what is left… — Lorraine Toussaint Copy Share Image
“They create goods to grant us a semblance of liberty. If violence is the Gold sport, manipulation is their art form.” — Pierce Brown Copy Share Image
“Behind sunglasses we linger over espresso, talking about pizza as an art form, the geekiness of people's travel clothes...” — Frances Mayes Copy Share Image
Of all the art forms that my family dabbles in, writing suits my temperament the most. — Shweta Bachchan Nanda Copy Share Image
Undeniably the American art form, too. And yet more and more, we see films made that diminish the American experience and example.… — Charlton Heston Copy Share Image
I love to watch people dance. It is the most fantastic skill and art form that anybody can have. — Tabu Copy Share Image
Madrid reacting with the forceful protection of bullfighting as an art form is an example of the survival of the old values. — Bette Ford Copy Share Image