it’s all a popularity contest, which unfortunately often has more to do with good looks rather than actual talent.

I think it’s important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you’ve got to try new stuff and challenge yourself and take chances.

I’m a product of an East Coast liberal arts educational system.

When you’re in a show, all through rehearsals Tech Week hovers out there like a magical holy grail. In reality, Tech Week is always a train wreck of missed cues, forgotten lines, malfunctioning set pieces...

Give a poet a pen

Remove idleness from the world and soon the arts of Cupid would perish.

We didn’t come to the world just to entertain, we came to play remarkable roles, and our reward is to see you doing more than us.

It’s quite simple. I just don’t feel right without a pen in my hand denting a hole through my notepad.

I wanted to be a martial arts film star when I was a teenager.

When there is no tension between the inner beingness and that which is being expressed, there is grace.

Advertising has always been a huge unrecognised source of outdoor relief for the arts.

I’m a sworn enemy of convention. I despise the conventional in anything, even the arts.

France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.

This was awkward to infinity. Alex living here would change my entire routine. I was sharing a bathroom with my boyfriend. How scary was that? I had tampons and pads and everything in there. He...

It is not true that I oppose government funding of the arts.

An arts degree is like a diploma in origami. And about as much use.

Arts without a spiritual relative is like frying buns with water.

Many people don’t realize the connection between music and literature and I’m here to tell them that it does exist!

A lot of people don’t realize, when you are acting in a martial arts film, you’re not just performing martial arts. You’re not just performing martial arts. You’re actually acting as much as any other...

Dancing, at its best, is independence and intimacy in balance.

We need our Arts to teach us how to breathe

In the arts the way in which an idea is rendered, and the manner in which it is expressed, is much more important than the idea itself.

Fiorello LaGuardia saved City Center. The real man saved it, and he made this building into a performing arts venue.

The first few weeks of school were always surreal, like you landed on an alien planet with strange teachers and unfamiliar classrooms, even though the lockers and cafeteria seemed familiar.

Be drawn to the visual arts for it can expand your imagination.

Do people absolutely need the arts to get by day-to-day? You can make that claim, but they also really need a lot of things before that.

I realize that some of you may have come in hopes of hearing tips on how tobecome a professional writer. I say to you, “If you really want to hurt yourparents, and you don’t have...

The proliferation of creative power can transform the world for all of its inhabitants.

You can’t enjoy art or books in a hurry.

If it were customary to send little girls to school and teach them the same subjects as are taught to boys, they would learn just as fully and would understand the subtleties of all arts...

But the culture-vultures and the intellectual snobs, and the self-appointed guardians of the Muses, often frighten off the average person from the free development of this appetite.

Every piece of art is a mirror and serves the function of reflectivity to expose to you and reveal to you more of who you are.

I wanted to paint a picture some day that people would stand before and forget that it was made of paint. I wanted it to creep into them like a bar of music and mushroom...

I think of myself as a little kid, and I had a wild imagination, but it was something that was encouraged and supported, which helped steer me into the arts.

If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.

What we do is look for high standards of excellence in the arts.

The canvas is the door to another dimension. The paintbrush is the key.

She preferred the quiet solitary atmosphere, to create in her own world of paint and colour, the thrill of anticipating how her works would turn out as she eyed the blank sheets of paper or...

The arts are a major life nourishment.

Support for the arts — merde! A government-supported artist is an incompetent whore!

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man’s life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.”[Moral...

Ars longa vita brevis

I paint. I love the visual arts.

Women have sat indoors all these millions of years, so that by this time the very walls are permeated by their creative force, which has, indeed, so overcharged the capacity of bricks and mortar that...

The loss of these tastes [for poetry and music] is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be injurious to the intellect, and more probably to the moral character, by enfeebling the emotional part of...

Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity.

I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty

Righteous, I like that. Kinda fitting when you think about it. If we danced and shared music, we’d be too busy en-joy-in’ life to start a war.

In America, applause is won only by physical exertion.

The beauty of art is that it comes from the heart.