Quotes About Art

You don't have to patronize your audience, and you can mix art and commerce in a profound way. You can simultaneously play to the sophisticated, 60-year-old theatergoers and to 4-year-olds.

We have to take risks with art. If we don't, it all becomes a bit boring

I have the dream to continue being in an art context, but also be able to continue doing stuff in television on the web.

My study of religion, which I regard in many ways as an art form, is a search for meaning.

I guess that storytelling would be for me to keep making art that touches people in a way that nothing else can.

I've learned you can't take any steps to protect any art. It is so vulnerable.

I think comedy and music are both things that we need as human beings. I think that both art forms can touch people.

I think joy is just as instructive as pain, and I like it better. I never meant to suffer any more than I could help; my nature was meant for happiness, a daylight art and living.

I made the decision that my contribution needed to be more musical than political. My music was enough, politically. Art matters. Art was enough. My music was enough to say what I had to say.

I think music can definitely be art; I also think music can be crap and not be art.

I expect art to make me scream, art to reveal soul.

There is no purity with regards to the marketplace and art, I believe.

Mel [Bochner] sets a very high standard. He expects only the best and most thoughtful and rigorous examinations, not only of the history of art but your own practice.

Just so [becoming a chef ] that I could support my art habit. You know? I mean, this is - this is something where you've been literally given an opportunity to put the world on pause for a second.

I think its sad that movies and television have caused the theatre to fade as a popular art form. I hope to get young people into the theatre and expose them to Shakespeare.

Alexander Pope once wrote that the theater aspires to wake the soul by gentle strokes of art - to raise the genius and to mend the heart.

The great artist takes what he needs.

Energy is eternal delight; and from the earliest times human beings have tried to imprison it in some durable hieroglyphic. It is perhaps the first of all the subjects of art.

During my training I was trained in Psycho-politics. This was the art of capturing the minds of a nation through brainwashing and fake mental health.

Twitter is not art. But it inspires me in the way that art used to inspire me.

Art curates compassion. Art to me breaks down walls and allows us to step into somebody else's shoes.

Nowadays anyone can show their art to anybody via the Internet.

Great stories don't often make great movies. Its' a crafted art form.

I graduated from high school with the art award and I had made a ton of short films, but it was before DVDs with director commentary.