Art Form Quotes

316 Art Form quotes by 273 unique authors

I expect to see the coming decades transform the planet into an art form; the new man, linked in a cosmic harmony that transcends time… — Marshall McLuhan
Music is an art form that doesn't need to be explained. It needs to be performed; it needs to be felt; it needs to be… — Roberta Flack
An art form requires genius. People of genius are always troublemakers, meaning they start from scratch, demolish accepted norms, and rebuild a new world. — Henri Langlois
I think jazz is a beautiful, democratic music. It encourages musicians with very strong, and many times, very different points of view to work together… — Marcus Miller
Music has the power to bring people together like no other art form. — Michael Franti
Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it. — Sam Kinison
I could be just a writer very easily. I am not a writer. I am a screenwriter, which is half a filmmaker... But it is… — Paul Schrader
Opera is the ultimate art form. It has singing and music and drama and dance and emotion and story. — Diane Paulus
That's something lacking in a lot of modern-day families - just talking. It's almost a lost art form. — Ryan Kwanten
To sculpt a head of hair with scissors is an art form. It's in pursuit of art. — Vidal Sassoon
Songwriting is a very frustrating art form. You have to get on tape exactly what's playing inside your head — Michael Jackson
Autonomy, adventure, imagination: entrepreneurshi p comprehends all this and more for us. The characteristic art form of our age may be the business plan. — William Deresiewicz
There is something about seeing real people on a stage that makes a bad play more intimately, more personally offensive than any other art form. — Anatole Broyard
In LA I was watching At the Movies with Ebert and Roper, it was, nice to see them differentiate between the subject matter and the… — Michael Berryman
There's a unique bond of trust between readers and authors that I don't believe exists in any other art form; as a reader, I trust… — Dan Simmons
Jerry Falwell turned gay bashing into a very successful art form.... the first fundamentalist to exploit the fear and loathing of homosexuals to raise hundreds… — Mel White
Whereas painting is a more rarefied art form, with a limited audience, I recognized film as this extraordinary social tool that could reach tremendous numbers… — Kathryn Bigelow
[Rewriting is] a whole other art form; it's about craftsmanship. — Sam Shepard
The novel is perhaps the highest art form because it so closely resembles life: it is about human relationships. It's technique, page by page, resembles… — Joyce Carol Oates
Something about music urges us to engage with its larger context, beyond the piece of plastic it came on-it seems to be part of our… — David Byrne
I don't get many hecklers now but answering them is an art form in itself. — Paul Daniels
Few photographers have ever considered the photography of wild animals, as distinctly opposed to the genre of Wildlife Photography, as an art form. The emphasis… — Nick Brandt
I'm realistic about my age and realistic about the fact that there's an awful lot less in front of me than there is behind me.… — Roger Daltrey
I always argued against the auteur theory; films are a collaborative art form. I've had some fantastically good people help me make the movies. — Alan Parker
Comedy is the one absolutely self-aware art form. Actually, hip-hop's another one, I suppose. Because in your songs you're talking about how good a hip-hop… — Bo Burnham

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