Art Quote by Elia Kazan Download Open image “I was the hero of the young insurgent working class art movement.” — Elia Kazan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Art Movement Class Hero Insurgent Insurgent Working Movement Working class Young Young Insurgent
I became a war hero before going on to critical acclaim as a professional victim. — Dave Pelzer Copy Share Image
I wanted to start a revolution, using art to build the sort of society I myself envisioned. — Yayoi Kusama Copy Share Image
I was very active. I was always all over the place trying to do a million things, just into this activity. If you asked… — Lauryn Hill Copy Share Image
My activism always existed. My art gave me the platform to do something about the activism. — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
I was involved with the anti-apartheid movement through my work as an artist and also through my political commitment. — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
I'd love to be exciting and say that I was the rebel at school, but sadly I wasn't. — Emily Blunt Copy Share Image
My father wanted to be a hero. He went to the Air Force Academy, was valedictorian, and then he found himself strafing villagers in… — Patty Jenkins Copy Share Image
The essence of the stage is concentration and penetration. Of the screen action, movement, sweep. — Elia Kazan Copy Share Image
I didn't have the problem of finding myself at 45 on the wrong course - I always wanted to be a film director. — Elia Kazan Copy Share Image
What's called a difficult decision is a difficult decision because either way you go there are penalties. — Elia Kazan Copy Share Image
You can't just sit there and do the lines. You have to do something revealing or unusual. — Elia Kazan Copy Share Image
If you're going to play a cowboy, show up with the horse at the audition — Elia Kazan Copy Share Image
I value peace, too, when it is not bought at the price of fundamental decencies. — Elia Kazan Copy Share Image
There was no doubt that there was a vast organization which was making fools of all the liberals in Hollywood and taking their money,… — Elia Kazan Copy Share Image
The makers of entertainment must try, in our field, to be honest and grown-up. — Elia Kazan Copy Share Image
I'm very pro-America, but I feel it necessary to keep in touch with Europe to maintain a perspective. — Elia Kazan Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image