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Dance is one of the most revealing art forms. -- Mikhail Baryshnikov
Dance is the most fundamental of all art forms. -- Twyla Tharp
There's not a lot of art forms where you can control your presentation and your ideas. -- Gerard Way
What is needed in the theater, in fact for all our art forms, is a vibrant critical tradition. -- F. Sionil Jose
Opera is one of the most important art forms. It should be listened to and appreciated by everyone. -- Luciano Pavarotti
Books and movies are different art forms with different rules. And because of that, they never translate exactly. -- Tom Clancy
We're here to bring beauty to the world and make a difference in this planet. That's what art forms are about. -- Charlie Haden
I'm a big illustration and comic book fan. In my eyes, comic books and illustration are the same kind of art forms. -- Mika
Poetry is one of the oldest of all art forms, and one of its powers for shamans and tribal leaders was the mnemonic. -- Felix Dennis
First of all, what in this world does not revolve around money? But money is a big part of film, unlike a lot of other art forms. -- Spike Lee
You know, I feel like my job is to write a book. Then filmmakers come and they make a movie. And they're two really different art forms. -- Ayelet Waldman
I have trouble with modern art. But in general, all art forms fascinate me - art is the way human beings express what we can't say in words. -- Andrea Bocelli
One of the things I love about opera is that it's the combination of all the art forms, and certainly the world of fashion is a big deal in it. -- Joyce DiDonato
We started combining the use of light and the use of theatrics and the use of as many art forms as possible, and it's still growing - that's the whole idea of it. -- Alice Cooper
But theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of communication with an audience. That's why I call it the most social of the various art forms. -- Wole Soyinka
I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being. -- Thornton Wilder
Melodrama is one of the most stunning art forms. These are stories where the emotions are big, and the situations are big, and the artists believe in the situation dramatically. There's no irony or distance. -- James Gray
I was attracted to a lot of different art forms - dancing, painting. But there's something about music that people hold so close. It's such a powerful art form, and that's why I live for it. -- Ani DiFranco
You perhaps know me as a novelist. Literature is one of the arts - in fact, the noblest of the arts. That is not my opinion; it was first expressed by the ancients. As art, literature has many similarities with the other art forms. -- F. Sionil Jose
If I were a carpenter, I'd find a way to empower using that skill. I'm using as much as God has given - my mind, my voice, my heart, my art forms. This is the highest form of expression on the planet from God, to me, to you. -- Avery Brooks
When movies first came out, maybe they were in black and white and there wasn't any sound and people were saying the theater is still the place to be. But now movies and theater have found their own place in the world. They are each legitimate art forms. -- Hans Zimmer
We haven't lost romance in the digital age, but we may be neglecting it. In doing so, antiquated art forms are taking on new importance. The power of a handwritten letter is greater than ever. It's personal and deliberate and means more than an e-mail or text ever will. -- Ashton Kutcher
Buncha Losers' comedy is one of those homegrown American art forms, up there with infomercials and Elvis-shaped soap carvings. No other civilization could have invented it. The French took a stab with Sartre's 'No Exit,' but then they had to ruin it with a lesson at the end. -- Rob Sheffield
When it comes to partnership, some humans can make their lives alone - it's possible. But creatively, it's more like painting: you can't just use the same colours in every painting. It's just not an option. You can't take the same photograph every time and live with art forms with no differences. -- Ben Harper
I quickly realized that this medium had a lot to offer someone like me. To do Disney-quality hand-drawn cartoons, you have to be a master of two art forms. Seriously, you have to be able to draw like a Leonardo da Vinci or a Michelangelo. But also you have to know movement and timing and control that through 24 frames a second. -- John Lasseter
Music is one of the noblest callings I can think of. It's the highest of all the art forms to me. For example, if my kid said to me, 'I want to give it all up,' whatever it is that they're doing, 'and I want to take my saxophone and go out,' I would say, 'May God go with you. This is a great and noble thing that you're doing.' -- Hugh Laurie
Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms. -- Roy Lichtenstein
Jazz is one of the least learnable art forms. -- Keith Jarrett
Art is a person's private vision expressed in aesthetic forms. -- Chaim Potok
Art is the creation of forms symbolic of human feeling. -- Susanne Katherina Langer
Literature has drawn a funny perimeter that other art forms haven't. -- Jonathan Safran Foer
All art forms employ some means through which images become real. -- Elliot W. Eisner
Art in the blood is liable to take the strangest forms. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
I was always interested in photography and other forms of art. -- Mikhail Baryshnikov
I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms. -- Thornton Wilder
The ideal itself is but truth clothed in the forms of art. -- Octave Feuillet
Kitsch is certainly not "bad art," it forms its own closed system. -- Hermann Broch
Producing perfection from imperfection is, after all, the highest of art forms. -- Frank Herbert
Besides prostitution, magic is one of the oldest art forms that exist. -- David Blaine
I find comedy to be one of the highest of the art forms. -- Taylor Momsen
More people are exposed to movies than to most other forms of art." -- Richard King
I think jazz and comic books are probably the two uniquely American art forms. -- Len Wein
Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse. -- Francis Bacon
The forms of art reflect the history of man more truthfully than do documents themselves. -- Theodor Adorno
Art takes different forms... But it represents something that is basic in all of us-our history. -- George Clooney
Nature in no case cometh short of art, for the arts are copiers of natural forms. -- Marcus Aurelius
The Holy Spirit speaks many languages; among them the languages of art in all its forms. -- Frank Griswold
Music is an art form too. Sometimes other forms of art can be inspiring to the musician. -- Ken Hill
All creative art is magic, is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising. -- Joseph Conrad
All different forms of human expression, art, science, are going to become expanded, by expanding our intelligence. -- Ray Kurzweil
Art forms render ideas accessible to readers who could not receive those insights in any other format. -- Sara Maitland
The practice of listening is one of the most mysterious, luminous, and challenging art forms on Earth. -- Mark Nepo
The impact of black music and black art forms on American culture is really difficult to appreciate. -- Jess Row
There are no vital and significant forms of art; there is only art, and precious little of that." -- Raymond Chandler
All the new media are art forms which have the power of imposing, like poetry, their own assumptions. -- Marshall McLuhan
There are no vital and significant forms of art; there is only art, and precious little of that. -- Raymond Chandler
God is love, I said, but art's the possibility of forms, and shadows are the source of identity. -- Ralph Ellison
The consolation of art comes in many forms... For some it is making, for others it is having. -- Michael Kimmelman
There are only three forms of high art: the symphony, the illustrated children's book and the board game. -- Brian K. Vaughan
Art Deco for me except in its most crazed and attenuated forms, it's jut a matter of taste. -- William Gibson
Art is a discovery and development of elementary principles of nature into beautiful forms suitable for human use. -- Frank Lloyd Wright
And, consequently, the art of propaganda or public information becomes one of the most powerful forms of directive statesmanship. -- John Grierson
Directing is the ultimate way to bring together all the art forms I've been involved with over the years. -- Xander Berkeley
For me art and chess are closely related, both are forms in which the self finds beauty and expression. -- Vladimir Kramnik
One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together. -- Jean-Luc Godard
All forms of madness, bizarre habits, awkwardness in society, general clumsiness, are justified in the person who creates good art." -- Roman Payne
Learning to trust our intuition is an art form, and like all other art forms, it takes practice to perfect. -- Shakti Gawain
I began to see cinema as the perfect combination of so many wonderful art forms - painting, photography, music, dance, theater. -- James Gray
Dogma, static positions, consonance - all these are obstacles to catching the disease of art, at least in its more complex forms. -- Yevgeny Zamyatin
My only concern about art collaborations is that I never thought of myself as an Artist. My tax forms say Musician/Songwriter. -- Sufjan Stevens
Nature and abstract forms are both materials for art, and the choice of one or the other flows from historically changing interests. -- Meyer Schapiro
Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms. -- Marcel Proust
One meets the cat in nearly all forms of art...curiously enough she is not a conspicuous figure in Roman or Greek art. -- Carl Van Vechten
The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions. -- Paul Klee
The forms of art are inexhaustible; but all lead by the same road of aesthetic emotion to the same world of aesthetic ecstasy. -- Clive Bell
I think comedy and music are both things that we need as human beings. I think that both art forms can touch people. -- Kate Bush
The forms of art are inexhaustible; but all lead by the same road of aesthetic emotion to the same world of aesthetic ecstasy." -- Clive Bell
Forms in art arise from the impact of idea upon material... so that thinking and belief and attitudes may endure as actual things. -- Ben Shahn
Art is really about how you capture different things you see around you and bring them into forms and words and shapes and meaning. -- Chath Piersath
I tend to keep my mind open to the different forms of art out there and I am always willing to try new stuff. -- St. Lucia
From the point of view of art, there are no concrete or abstract forms, but only forms which are more or less convincing lies. -- Pablo Picasso
We cannot underestimate the power of the different art forms, and the correspondences between them, which are an unending source of inspiration and enrichment. -- Helene Grimaud
There are forms of art that I might not like to do myself, but I still have respect for the artists who create it. -- Vanessa Paradis
Cooking hasn't yet been accepted as the art form it is. It should be on the level with any of the other art forms. -- Julia Child
All great art is revolutionary because it touches upon the reality of man and questions the reality of the various transitory forms of human society. -- Eric Hoffer
We recognize the distinctness of Asian art when we turn to its traditional forms, recognize it as Japanese, Chinese and Indian, even Balinese or Thai. -- F. Sionil Jose
Art forms that appeal to [leftists] tend to focus on ... defeat and despair ... as if there were no hope of accomplishing anything through rational calculation. -- Theodore Kaczynski
Wisdom and Spirit of the universe! Thou soul, that art the eternity of thought, And giv'st to forms and images a breath And everlasting motion. -- William Wordsworth
Like all art forms, film is a media as powerful as weapons of mass destruction; the only difference is that war destroys and film inspires. -- Nicolas Winding Refn
The portrait is one of the most curious art forms. It demands special qualities in the artist, and an almost total kinship with the model. -- Henri Matisse
There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too. -- Karen Armstrong
Have we not all about us forms of a musical expression which we can take and purify and raise to the level of great art?. -- Ralph Vaughan Williams
There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too." -- Karen Armstrong
We mainly focus on putting music, art, dance, theater, all forms of art, back into the community, so the community can put it into the world. -- Erykah Badu
I have dedicated a significant portion of my time and artistry to making art that addresses various forms of oppression, including white supremacy, misogyny, and biphobia. -- Vivek Shraya
Bragging about what a good deal you got is one of the many great art forms that my people, the Jews, have introduced to American culture. -- David Brooks
Vermont's a place where barns come painted Red as a strong man's heart, Where stout carts and stout boys in freckles, Are highest forms of art -- Robert Tristram Coffin
The love of art in its many forms lives on and enables us to enjoy the past, the present, and look with confidence to the future. -- John Kurtz
There is no line between fine art and illustration; there is no high or low art; there is only art, and it comes in many forms. -- James Gurney
Fashion is one of the most beautiful forms of art we have. It's a form of art that every person gets to possess and create for themselves. -- Jim James
Dumbing down takes many forms: art that is good for you, museums that flatter you, universities that increase your self-esteem. Culture, after all, is really about you. -- Denis Dutton
According to me [Sigmund ] Freud did not notice that the dream expresses the inner experiences in a symbolic form,resembling in that, poetry or other art forms. -- Erich Fromm
As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the greatest adornment of art." -- Albrecht Durer
As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the greatest adornment of art. -- Albrecht Durer
Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in time the truth of the work of art. -- Michel Foucault
Every innovation scraps its immediate predecessor and retrieves still older figures "? it causes floods of antiques or nostalgic art forms and stimulates the search for museum pieces. -- Marshall McLuhan
Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love, and of thought, which, in the coarse or centuries, have enabled man to be less enslaved -- Andre Malraux
There are three forms of visual art: Painting is art to look at, sculpture is art you can walk around, and architecture is art you can walk through -- Dan Rice
Music is one of the highest art forms there is. It can define a life, change a life, or even safe a life, in just three short minutes. -- Alyson Noel
The wise man regulates his conduct by the theories both of religion and science. But he regards these theories not as statements of ultimate fact but as art-forms. -- John B. S. Haldane
Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in time the truth of the work of art." -- Michel Foucault
If you look on the history of art you observe how the most popular forms trample the rest. The abstract expressionists destroyed figurative work for more than 30 years. -- Mark Edward
America does four things better than any other country in the world: rock music, movies, software and high-speed pizza delivery. All of these are sacred American art forms. -- Courtney Love
We're one of the last handmade art forms. There's no fast way to make plays. It takes just as long and is just as hard as it was a thousand years ago. -- Steven Dietz
Martial arts are art forms and require a great deal of discipline and dedication. I so admire people who focus their lives on it, because it's not an easy thing to do. -- Lucy Liu
I think that narrative, fiction filmmaking is the culmination of several art forms: theater, art history, architecture. Whereas doc filmmaking is more pure cinema, like cinema verite is film in its purest form. -- George Hickenlooper
I was attracted to poetry, which is perhaps the purest of the art forms, where love is the medium of exchange and the nobility of love is considered. It's a land of higher ideals. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
I listen to music all the time. I write while listening to music. And I tell myself that the music nourishes the art forms that I do master and domesticate, and have authority over. -- Jonathan Lethem
Unlike all the other art forms, film is able to seize and render the passage of time, to stop it, almost to possess it in infinity. I'd say that film is the sculpting of time. -- Andrei Tarkovsky
I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being. -- Thornton Wilder

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