Acting Quote by Anne Bogart

I think that art is an act of violence, and the more emotionally engaged you are in a piece of art, the more violent…

— Nicolas Winding Refn

I don't believe that art makes people violent in any way. I don't. But I do believe art can show people how to be…

— Nicolas Winding Refn

In theatre, the main objective is to make the art happy, not the audience! If you have to choose between the audience and the…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Art should cause violence to be set aside and it is only art that can accomplish this.

— Leo Tolstoy

Art is a way to get strength from something that is life-affirming. It can be quite violent and still be life-affirming.

— Val Kilmer

“Humans have terrible passions that can go either way: create or destroy, it all depends on where they emerge. Art is not a tranquil…

— Jessica Zafra

In theatre, the main objective is to make the art happy, not the audience!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous, you don't want it.

— Duke Ellington

If there isn't at least the threat of violence in art, it tends to be kind of tiresome.

— Teller

Art, especially the stage, is an area where it is impossible to walk without stumbling. There are in store for you many unsuccessful days…

— Anton Chekhov

So at a time in which the media give the public everything it wants and desires, maybe art should adopt a much more aggressive…

— Thom Mayne

Art is man's distinctly human way of fighting death,

— Leonard Baskin