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Somewhere in my head, a private conviction exists that 'Search is the Process' and 'Discovery the Art Form. -- Abe Ajay
If Wagner lived today, he would probably work with film instead of music. He already knew back then that the Great Art Form would include a sort of fourth dimension; it was really film he was talking about. -- Harmony Korine
Music happens to be an art form that transcends language. -- Herbie Hancock
In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport. -- Julia Child
Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it. -- Sam Kinison
Music has the power to bring people together like no other art form. -- Michael Franti
Creating a wonderful drama is an art form, while comedy is just entertainment. -- Jason Reitman
Graffiti's always been a temporary art form. You make your mark and then they scrub it off. -- Banksy
I think you can do anything with comics that you could do in just about any art form. -- Harvey Pekar
There hasn't been anything real since grunge. That was the last movement led by music or an art form. -- Daphne Guinness
As far as playing jazz, no other art form, other than conversation, can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction. -- Stan Getz
I consider skateboarding an art form, a lifestyle and a sport. 'Action sport' would be the least offensive categorization. -- Tony Hawk
Ballet is an incredibly difficult, beautiful art form that takes a lot of training, a lot of time, and a lot of hard work. -- Sutton Foster
Silent pictures show us how we lived and what our attitudes were. And as an art form, they can be wonderfully entertaining and often inspirational. -- Kevin Brownlow
Salad can get a bad rap. People think of bland and watery iceberg lettuce, but in fact, salads are an art form, from the simplest rendition to a colorful kitchen-sink approach. -- Marcus Samuelsson
I feel like skateboarding is as much of a sport as a lifestyle, and an art form, so there's so much that that transcends in terms of music, fashion, and entertainment. -- Tony Hawk
The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it... try to fake three laughs in an hour - ha ha ha ha ha - they'll take you away, man. You can't. -- Lenny Bruce
What 'War and Peace' is to the novel and 'Hamlet' is to the theater, Swan Lake' is to ballet - that is, the name which to many people stands for and sums up an art form. -- Robert Gottlieb
I'm happy to be a writer - of prose, poetry, every kind of writing. Every person in the world who isn't a recluse, hermit or mute uses words. I know of no other art form that we always use. -- Maya Angelou
It is essential to do everything possible to attract young people to opera so they can see that it is not some antiquated art form but a repository of the most glorious music and drama that man has created. -- Bruce Beresford
Comedy is the one absolutely self-aware art form. Actually, hip-hop's another one, I suppose. Because in your songs you're talking about how good a hip-hop artist you are. It's like a painter painting a panting of himself painting a painting. -- Bo Burnham
One of the most amazing things about mathematics is the people who do math aren't usually interested in application, because mathematics itself is truly a beautiful art form. It's structures and patterns, and that's what we love, and that's what we get off on. -- Danica McKellar
Barack Obama's life was so much simpler in 2009. Back then, he had refined the cold act of blaming others for the bad economy into an art form. Deficits? Blame Bush's tax cuts. Spending? Blame the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. No business investment? Blame Wall Street. -- John Sununu
Let's face it: professing a deep interest in movies, the absolutely dominant global art form of the last century, is at this point like professing an interest in air. Passion is nice. Erudition is admirable. But it's like that moment when good manners cross over into meaningless etiquette. -- David Rakoff
At this point in my life - age 24 - I have chosen a fairly strange path that not many are walking. I am a professional spoken word poet who tours the world performing and teaching. I run an organization called Project VOICE dedicated to using this art form as an education and empowerment tool in schools and communities of all kinds. -- Sarah Kay
I think music is the greatest art form that exists, and I think people listen to music for different reasons, and it serves different purposes. Some of it is background music, and some of it is things that might affect a person's day, if not their life, or change an attitude. The best songs are the ones that make you feel something. -- Eddie Vedder
It'll be the Internet and piracy that will kill film. There's a philosophy that the Internet should be free, but the reality is that piracy will destroy the film industry and film as an art form because it's expensive to make a movie. Maybe you'll have funky little independent movies, and it'll go back and then start up again some other way. -- Helen Mirren
Art is nothing without form. -- Gustave Flaubert
Cinema is an art form. -- Anurag Kashyap
Capitalism is an art form. -- Camille Paglia
You can't rush an art form. -- Chet Faker
Art is a form of catharsis. -- Dorothy Parker
Art is a form of consciousness. -- Susan Sontag
Headline writing is an art form. -- Jennifer Lee
Art is the highest form of hope. -- Gerhard Richter
Tragedy is the highest form of art. -- Joyce Carol Oates
Japanimation is a whole different art form. -- Lucy Liu
Stage performing is a dying art form. -- Ronnie Spector
Art strives for form, and hopes for beauty. -- Rose Bird
I consider tragedy the highest form of art. -- Joyce Carol Oates
Actors have no color. That's the art form. -- Whoopi Goldberg
the one universal form of art is music. -- Faith Baldwin
War is the highest form of modern art. -- Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
All great art is a form of complaint -- John Cage
For fun? Maybe evil is an art form. -- Gregory Maguire
To most women art is a form of scandal. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
All great art is a visual form of prayer. -- Wendy Beckett
I spent my life making fashion an art form. -- Charles James
Any form of art is a form of power. -- Ossie Davis
Movies are the art form most like man's imagination. -- Francis Ford Coppola
Classical art stands for form; romantic art for content. -- Robin G. Collingwood
[Rewriting is] a whole other art form; it's about craftsmanship. -- Sam Shepard
Cinema is arguably the 20th century's most influential art form. -- Beeban Kidron
Like seduction, the Priestess took poisoning to an art form. -- Karen Azinger
Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous. -- Toni Morrison
Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century. -- Marshall McLuhan
I like music because it's the only invisible art form. -- Sean Lennon
I always think that art is a form of sacrifice. -- Alejandro Jodorowsky
Football is an art form in itself. All sports are. -- Chris Zylka
To Norwegians, the polka is a form of martial art. -- Garrison Keillor
Insanity is a legal term. Crazy is an art form. -- Hunter S. Thompson
I think comedy is the hardest art form there is. -- John Popper
Art is our weapon. Culture is a form of resistance. -- Shirin Neshat
Every single art form is involved in film, in a way. -- Sydney Pollack
Unquestionably, standup comedy is and has always been an art form. -- Shelley Berman
It is in its pure form that an art hits hard. -- Robert Bresson
Art is a form of catharsis emotional release, purging, cleansing, purifying. -- Dorothy Parker
It's a new art form, showing people how little we care. -- Lorde
A piece of art is a compact form of the universe. -- Thomas Kinkade
Art is form struggling to wake from the nightmare of nature. -- Camille
In this art form, in any art form, generalities are useless. -- Zubin Mehta
Music is the noise that surrounds the stillness of the art form. -- Russell Simmons
The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it... -- Lenny Bruce
Movies suddenly became film and cinema an art form and terribly chic... -- Judith Crist
Great stories don't often make great movies. Its' a crafted art form. -- Kevin Costner
Self-nurturance, or learning to bask in bliss, is an acquired art form. -- Sarah Ban Breathnach
Insecurity's best cover is perfectionism. That's where it becomes an art form. -- Beth Moore
Simply making decisions, one after another, can be a form of art -- John Gruber
The internet has surrounded television and turned television into an art form. -- T Bone Burnett
Reading is an art form, and every man can be an artist. -- Edwin Louis Cole
Film in the 20th century, it's the American art form, like jazz. -- Martin Scorsese
Art is a form of play rejoicing before the face of God. -- Hans Rookmaaker
Teaching is a sacred profession. And art is a form of teaching. -- Stephen Sondheim
The highest art is no art. The highest form is no form -- Bruce Lee
To me art is a form of manifest revolt, total and complete. -- Jean Tinguely
Being funny is a gift, and, when done well, is an art form. -- Craig Ferguson
Every song, every form of art, clothing, shoes, it has to be special. -- Afrojack
This so-called contemporary art is not a form, but a philosophy of society, -- Ai Weiwei
Nothing more inelegant and ineffective than an art conceived in another art's form. -- Robert Bresson
I think that limitations are the most important part of any art form -- Lars von Trier
The purpose of music as an art form, is to engage the audience. -- Unarine Ramaru
I think comedy is an angry art form; it's an outsider art form. -- Margaret Cho
Anime is intended to have ambiguous features. That's part of the art form. -- M. Night Shyamalan
Gardening is an art form, but it has lost its sense of history. -- William Howard Adams
A work of art is a form that articulates forces, making them intelligible. -- Guy Davenport
In art as in life, form and subject, body and soul, are one. -- Edward Abbey
Some say art is our highest form of hope. . . . Perhaps it's our only hope. -- Roma Tearne
Art is a form of love. Art is the ultimate gift. Art heals life. -- Robert Genn
Films are an art form which are sold after packaging in this commercial world -- Shah Rukh Khan
Abstract art has helped us to experience the emotional power inherent in pure form. -- Anton Ehrenzweig
I've always wanted to be an animator. That's an ultimate art form, right there -- Jason Marsden
Understanding is a form of blindness. Good art, I think, can never be understood. -- Robert Rauschenberg
I've always wanted to be an animator. That's an ultimate art form, right there. -- Jason Marsden
I love the art form, but working in film can be a disheartening experience. -- Madonna Ciccone
Art is foremost a state of mind, and only secondarily a problem of form. -- Marc Chagall
Writing is the one art form that really should allow you to hang yourself. -- Peter Sotos
But... watching Steven Barnes taught me to treat my life like an art form. -- Larry Niven
The whole idea of ideas in art is useless. Only have ideas about form. -- Matthew Collings
I do not think there is any question of photography being an art form! -- Ansel Adams
True art takes note not merely of form but also of what lies behind. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I loved comedy all my life. I think it's a real powerful art form. -- Roseanne Barr
Magic is an art form where you lie and tell people you are lying. -- Teller
Art in its highest form is art that serves and instructs society and human development. -- Harry Belafonte
It's disappointing to see films become pure entertainment, so that it's not an art form. -- Richard Linklater
My whole theory about art is the disparity that exists between form, masses and movement. -- Alexander Calder
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. -- Jean Cocteau
Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form. -- Toni Morrison
Art is only the search, it is not the final form. It's unlimited, it's forever. -- Gary Busey
All art is the tension, expressed between the uncontainable and its one perfect inevitable form. -- Robin Morgan
Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form." -- Toni Morrison

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