Being Quote by Stephen Schwartz

I studied under Elmer Bernstein.

— Bear McCreary

Only talent interests me in paintings and books. Not general ideas, but the individual contribution.

— Vladimir Nabokov

An interviewer once asked me to discuss my collaboration with Elmer Bernstein, and precisely why I chose to work with him. My first thought…

— Martin Scorsese

My life as a working theorist began three months after this preliminary study and background reading, when Oscar gently nudged me toward working on…

— Rudolph A. Marcus

I've never been very good at manipulating my career, but fortunately I haven't needed to.

— Elaine Paige

He has made a profession out of a business and an art out of a profession.

— Anonymous

From an artist's point of view, I always want to work with the writers I admire.

— Jim Lee

I'm trying to get every man involved in art, into experimental music, or painting, or novel-writing.

— Harvey Pekar

There certainly is an affinity between a person and his work, but it is not easy to define what this affinity is, and on…

— Vincent Van Gogh

“Where visual artists are concerned, the Baroque sculptor and architect Bernini and the painter and sculptor Picasso were clearly adept at both experiential and…

— Winifred Gallagher

We're in an era where you learn about techniques, but you don't experience anything crucial in yourself about a piece of work from an…

— Rob Nilsson

I think, anyone in the arts, you're self-employed; it's so difficult.

— Sam Heughan