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

Dance Like A Pronunciation

I had brought from Paris the national prejudice against Italian music; but I had also received from nature that acute sensibility against which prejudices are powerless. I soon contracted the passion it inspires in all...

We need conscious entertainment that engage and influence its consumer to rational thinking.

Communication is very important. And the arts do that, whether it’s film or theater.

If the artist does not fling himself, without reflecting, into his work, as Curtis flung himself into the yawning gulf, as the soldier flings himself into the enemy’s trenches, and if, once in this crater,...

Music, uniquely among the arts, is both completely abstract and profoundly emotional. It has no power to represent anything particular or external, but it has a unique power to express inner states or feelings. Music...

In cities where peace and the arts flourish, men are more consumed by jealousy, worry, and anxiety than they are in cities under the blight of a besieging army. Private sorrows are more bitter than...

A career in the arts can make anyone crazy.

A midst deceit I found the truth;there in the rough I found a diamond.And from the moment we met,I think of no one elseToday I choose to be, to live and breathe;to dream, to weep,...

The foreign accent was a promise, and indeed, all over the country, European imports added spice to the sciences, the arts, and other areas. What one had to give was not considered inferior to what...

…the arts and criminality have always flourished side by side.

When I am in London, all I do is mix with other people in the arts.

When a show ends, for a few days, my body sizzles with leftover energy, like a tree in the wake of a lightning strike.

The value of an artist is more because of his originality than his skill.

Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels.

Anybody that fears and detests witchcraft is not happy with science and technology.

I don’t want to re-write the same old book with the same tired techniques. I’d rather bring something new to the table that’s true to me and that people will have a genuine reaction to....

As a kid, I was heavily into martial arts and wanted to be the next Jean-Claude Van Damme.

I make so many plans but fail at follow-through. Gemini mind once a mat for you to wipe your feet. I’d beg for it. I’d plead ‘Here! I’m here waiting for you to be the...

Just as no monkey is as good-looking as the ugliest of humans, no academic is worthier than the worst of the creators

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...