Art Quote by Sidney Lumet Download Open image “It's art. It's commerce. It's heartbreaking and it's fun. It's a great way to live.” — Sidney Lumet ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Business Commerce Fun Heartbreaking Way Way to live
Art is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it! — Rick Sutter Copy Share Image
I was brought up feeling that art is a very important part of one's life. It's something that I not only enjoy, it's something… — David Rockefeller Copy Share Image
For me, art is about learning and about living with people. It's alive. — Miuccia Prada Copy Share Image
I love art. But I love it because it is the expression of a living philosophy. It's the leftovers. Art is what's left over… — Kirsha Kaechele Copy Share Image
I love the way art moves people emotionally. I love the fact that when someone purchases art it is the one thing that will… — Jack White Copy Share Image
It makes me happy to think that this world of art-as-investment is a minuscule fraction of the art world overall. Most people who create,… — Adam Davidson Copy Share Image
The art feeds my mind and soul and the job pays my bills. Finding the balance can be a challenge, but I am very… — Guinevere Van Seenus Copy Share Image
The best thing about art is that it is the one luxury in life that can be enjoyed by everyone. And it lasts forever. — Lynda Resnick Copy Share Image
There are no minor decisions in movie making. Each decision will either contribute to a good piece of work or bring the whole movie… — Sidney Lumet Copy Share Image
In drama, the characters should determine the story. In melodrama, the story determines the characters. — Sidney Lumet Copy Share Image
There's a powerful magic about being a writer that I still marvel at. — Sidney Lumet Copy Share Image
There are no personal revelations other than feelings arising from the work itself — Sidney Lumet Copy Share Image
The varying physical characteristics of the actors may also necessitate changes. Sean Connery is six feet four. Dustin Hoffman isn't. — Sidney Lumet Copy Share Image
Suffice to say that the theme (the WHAT of the movie) is going to determine the style (the HOW of the movie). — Sidney Lumet Copy Share Image
If I don't have a script I adore, I do one I like. If I don't have one I like, I do one that… — Sidney Lumet Copy Share Image
Don't let the difficulty of actually achieving a shot make you think that the shot is good. — Sidney Lumet Copy Share Image
Over-length is one of the things that most often results in the destruction of the movie in the cutting room. — Sidney Lumet 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
