Art Quote by Toni Cade Bambara

It's a creative enterprise, just like art, just like painting, music. Creating something can be done in different categories, so to do it in…

— Robert Redford

Our job is to make manifest the story, to be it. In a sense, the theatre is such a big star itself, bigger than…

— Mark Rylance

Working on a play is a vibrant and collaborative business. Everyone from the choreographer to the music director to the director to the writers…

— Trey Anastasio

Performing in the theater is a very ethereal profession because you do it once and it goes out into the ether and it goes…

— Brian Stokes Mitchell

Compared to other forms of drama, performance art is often thought of as inaccessible and overly artsy. I prefer to think of it as…

— Amy Hill

Playwrights have texts, composers have scores, painters and sculptors have the residue of those activities, and dance is traditionally an ephemeral, effervescent, here-today-gone-tomorrow kind…

— Twyla Tharp

I think when you're doing a musical, you have to be attuned to the director's vision. You're working with a variety of people, singers…

— Arlene Phillips

As a writer, I think about films I work on in a traditional Hollywood kind of a way. I'm curious to see how it…

— Morgan Neville

My metaphor for translation has always been that translation is really a performance art. You take the original and try to perform it, really,…

— Ken Liu

There are dance artists, painting artists and writing artists. Authors are writing artists. You can practice art in whatever medium you choose, and words…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

In the end, it's about the reality. You want something that's believable in the performances; you want something that's believable in the storytelling, in…

— Matt Czuchry

That's the magic of art and the magic of theatre: it has the power to transform an audience, an individual, or en masse, to…

— Brian Stokes Mitchell