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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
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The claims I'm making for art are simply the claims that we naturally make around music or around poetry. We're much more… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Voltaire's novel [Candid] offers us parallel universes, the possibility of entering into alternative worlds existing side by side, and this is something… — Mark Ravenhill Copy Share Image
Architecture traditionally has been the slowest of art forms. It was not unusual for great cathedrals to take centuries to complete, with… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
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The artist is engaged constantly in building anti-environments. (And, by the way, the Courtly Love people were engaged in making love itself… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Therefore, the two processes, that of science and that of art, are not very different. Both science and art form in the… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
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At the end of the day I see myself as a communicator. So any way that I can, any medium, any art… — Tedashii Copy Share Image
The desire to express in an art form and to compose a tableau and vignette whether it's humorous, burlesque, or poetic comes… — Elia Suleiman Copy Share Image
You take a sound, any sound, record it and then change it's nature by a multiplicity of operations. You record it at… — Daphne Oram Copy Share Image
Speaking out against rap music is useless, and it's futile. The reality is there's criticism for everything, but Jay-Z is one of… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Smiles come naturally to me, but I started thinking of them as an art form at my command. I studied all the… — Tyra Banks Copy Share Image
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Look for positive people and situations. Call a friend who sees the good in others. Spend time with a colleague who affirms… — Nate Copy Share Image
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It's a slippery slope when you make the argument that hip hop is only a black person's art. Certainly, its origins are… — Dave Itzkoff Copy Share Image
Theatre's great. It's such an act of faith. It's a wonderful art form where you suspend disbelief for a couple of hours.… — Israel Horovitz Copy Share Image
Opera is the most complete art form. It includes drama, acting, technology (lighting), art (the sets), dance, and the epitome of the… — Karen DeCrow 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
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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
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
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
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
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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
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
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Although photography generates works that can be called art-it requires subjectivity, it can lie, it gives aesthetic pleasure-photography is not, to begin… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Most musicals are informed by very rigid archetypes. If you get a very sophisticated mind writing them, you sense something else, but… — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
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