Quotes About Art

The drama may be called that part of theatrical art which lends itself most readily to intellectual discussion: what is left is theater.

I did theatrical caricatures.

And I don't consider Broadway the acropolis of theatrical art. I mean Broadway is commercial - that's what it is. It's expensive seats and a lot of them that have to be filled every night. Off-Broadway and Off-Off Broadway, as far as I'm concerned, is in New York the pride of New York theater.

Direction is the most invisible part of the theatrical art. You don't see it.

Theatre has to be theatrical. It has to draw attention to itself, like poetry.

Opera is a very stimulating place to work, and I believe it offers the most intense theatrical experience possible.

The black person is the protagonist in most of my paintings. I realized that I didn't see many paintings with black people in them.

I hate flowers - I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move.

The theme my generation explored was the relationship between capitalism and art.

I hear filmmakers saying, 'I wanted to make to make a film about this issue, or this theme,' but I never start like that.

Any material may be used but the theme is the same and the response is the same for all artwork... we all have the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly.

The history of American art, in a way, begins with Jackson Pollock and his big paintings. This theme of bigness - all painters and sculptors have dealt with it ever since.

I feel like now fashion is just part of how I think about everything. When I send out a mood board to our contributors every month about our monthly theme, there are photos from our fashion shows, but there are also film stills and album art.

When I was a student looking at Leonardo DaVinci and all those guys - Italian, Dutch, or whatever - it's incredible how each piece of the painting fits to the main theme that they want to express.

Each of my records has a different focus, a different theme.

You have independent films and independent music, but you don't have independent theme parks - I think, in a way, Burning Man is as close, probably, as you get.

An actor doesn't change thought, theme, or mood unless the character does, and the character only does it within the words of the play.

Writing music is very, very clinical. You just sit down at a piano, map out a theme and when all the technicalities come together, out pours the music.

Sometimes the theme of the film is something that comes down to the way you designed the film - that you're saying something about the world. And it's one of the things that I think animation can do, in a way that other forms of filmmaking can't do. Because every single thing you see has got to be designed and created.

Always when you are doing films, the themes swallow you in one way or another.

The whole reason one wants to do lower budget films is because the lower the budget, the bigger the ideas, the bigger the themes, the more interesting the art.

Some months ago, while I was preparing a new work, I told a young cinema executive my intention of including in a soundtrack two themes from Bach. But when he asked me which has been the last hit from that Bach?, then I knew that I had no longer place in cinema.

I can talk to him about anything. We have the same kind of education and—" "What kind of education?" Clay asked. "We enjoy the arts. Music, literature, theater, art. My degree is in classical studies.

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