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I was hoping to attend the School of Visual Arts and had a portfolio built up. -- Kevin Dillon
At the School of Visual Arts in New York, you can get your degree in Net art, which is really a fantastic way of thinking of theater in new ways. -- Laurie Anderson
In 1989 I came to New York to go to the School of Visual Arts. Then, after two years, I switched over to the New School for Social Research and did cultural anthropology in the graduate school there. -- Aleksandra Mir
I had done student films for the School Of Visual Arts and for NYU and all these schools in New York, so those were my first film experiences, but they were student films, so I guess they don't really count. -- Guillermo Diaz
I took myself out of the business to study film at NYU and the School of Visual Arts. I grew up on movie sets and was fascinated with the camera and behind-the-scenes work. I felt it would help my career as an actor if I knew all aspects of film. -- Devin Ratray
I paint. I love the visual arts. -- Kristin Bauer van Straten
I've always been involved in the visual arts and music. -- Adam Jones
Be drawn to the visual arts for it can expand your imagination. -- Barbara Januszkiewicz
Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts. -- Yahoo Serious
Evidently the arts, all the visual arts, are becoming more democratic in the worst sense of the word. -- Eugenio Montale
I found that it wasn't so oddball to like music and poetry and visual arts, they're kindred spirits. -- J. Carter Brown
I am a hobbyist photographer so I relate to the visual arts that way, but I'm not a painter. -- Annie Parisse
I don't paint. I am a hobbyist photographer, so I relate to the visual arts that way, but I'm not a painter. -- Annie Parisse
A picture book is a small door to the enormous world of the visual arts, and they're often the first art a young person sees. -- Tomie dePaola
I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time. -- David Bowie
I just dreamed about living in Paris and being French. I always loved the visual arts, film and theatre, and I hoped to be involved in creating beautiful products and images. -- Maureen Chiquet
In the visual arts, particularly painting, I distrust all those abstractions, those artificial constructions. I have a very simple way of judging them: if I can do them, they are not art. -- F. Sionil Jose
You have kids studying master class visual arts who are pushed to make films that will be successful economically; that's what they focus on. So they work for corporate interest instead of artistic expression. -- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
To have my fan club. I am very proud of doing everything. I try to support my parents, friends and fans. I am also proud of my performing in the visual arts, and motion television. -- Chris Burke
That's why I ended up going to Lancaster University, because they had a visual arts course, and in the first year it was like a broad visual arts course in sculpture, painting, graphics - all of that. -- Andy Serkis
Modernism has a reputation for being a forbidding phenomenon: its visual arts disconcertingly non-representational, its literary efforts devoid of the consolations of plot and character - even its films, it's argued, fall well short of that true desideratum: entertainment. -- Will Self
There is no society ever discovered in the remotest corner of the world that has not had something that we would consider the arts. Visual arts - decoration of surfaces and bodies - appears to be a human universal. -- Steven Pinker
I think that music and visual arts can complement themselves nicely. They do different things - the music forces you into a different mood and perspective whilst the visual stuff can engage you in a more direct cognitive manner. -- Aaron Koblin
It's the same with visual arts, you have some really cool, wonderful striking images that make you think and then again you have wonderful striking images that just take you away from the existing world for a second. And I like the latter a bit more. -- Ville Valo
I wasn't a big fan of social anthropology. And, luckily, that created room for me to work in visual arts because I sort of ignored my requirements. I think I was attracted to social anthropology because I liked to travel and was always interested in far-off places. -- Darren Aronofsky
I don't think any particular painters have inspired me, except in a general sense. It was more a matter of corroboration. The visual arts, from Manet onwards, seemed far more open to change and experiment than the novel, though that's only partly the fault of the writers. There's something about the novel that resists innovation. -- J. G. Ballard
Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s. -- Camille Paglia
I went to an arts school as a kid. We had to take dance every other day, along with drama, music and visual arts. However, wearing black tights was something I dreaded... and still have nightmares about it to this day. I think I was a pretty good dancer. I suppose that training helped me land parts in musicals... or has just given me nightmares! -- Jake Epstein
I was quite keen on silviculture, the growing of trees, and that was something I gave a lot of thought to. Maybe I could've gone in that direction. But it just so happened that while I was trying to make up my mind, I enrolled in art school, and there I began to develop my interest in music, parallel with my interest in the visual arts. -- Ian Anderson
I like visual arts, and what I love doing is participating in the making of it. -- Sonia Braga
I was an artistic dilettante for a while, in photography and collage and the visual arts. -- Thomas F. Wilson
Lucifer is the patron saint of the visual arts. Color, form-all these are the work of Lucifer. -- Kenneth Anger
Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one. -- Eugenio Montale
I am a hobbyist photographer so I relate to the visual arts that way, but Im not a painter. -- Annie Parisse
As a visual arts teacher, I have to keep my mind open. I have explores styles from pointillism to cubism. -- St. Lucia
The primary purpose of the Museum is to help people enjoy, understand, and use the visual arts of our time. -- Alfred H. Barr, Jr.
The visual arts must communicate to the human spirit, forcing individuals to reflect on themselves and their existence beyond their own self-interest. -- Dean Mitchell
As the spiral of modern art history continues to wind down, we can see the increasing demand for tradition in the visual arts. -- Igor Babailov
Our one goal is to give the world a taste of peace, friendship and understanding. Through the visual arts, the art of celebration of life. -- Steven Spielberg
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I believe education in music, theater, dance, and the visual arts... is part of a well-rounded education and can provide so much joy, now and in the future. -- Rudy Giuliani
My fiction has been influenced by the visual arts, though not in obvious ways, it seems to me. I don't offer tremendous amounts of visual information in my work. -- Jonathan Lethem
I'd have been a filmmaker or a cartoonist or something else which extended from the visual arts into the making of narratives if I hadn't been able to shift into fiction. -- Jonathan Lethem
I'd have been a filmmaker or a cartoonist or something else which extended from the visual arts into the making of narratives if I hadn't been able to shift into fiction." -- Jonathan Lethem
All the arts, music, the visual arts, acting and dancing arts, cooking arts, and I believe sports, will save the human race because they can leap over barriers, religions, leap over barriers of race, politics. -- Pete Seeger

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