Quotes on Art

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity. Mark Twain After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. Aldous Huxley All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it. Jean Cocteau All music is beautiful. Billy Strayhorn Any good music must be an innovation. Les Baxter But when you get music and words together, that can be a very powerful thing. Bryan Ferry Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune. Kin Hubbard Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism. Howard Dietz Cinema is a director's medium, so you're saying, "What do you want?" Being an actor is about adapting - physically and emotionally. If that means you have to look great for it and they can make you look great, then thank you. And if you have to have everything washed away, then I'm willing to do that too. Nicole Kidman Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out. Martin Scorsese Cinema is a worldwide phenomenon. Wim Wenders Cinema is an old whore, like circus and variety, who knows how to give many kinds of pleasure. Besides, you can't teach old fleas new dogs. Federico Fellini Cinema is still a very young art form with extraordinary techniques and very impressive special effects but sometimes it seems the soul has been taken out of things. Catherine Deneuve

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. Oscar Wilde What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride! William Blake I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai. Orson Welles But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on. Francis Bacon A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it. Alfred Hitchcock My plan is to have a theatre in some small town or something and I'll be manager. Ill be the crazy old movie guy. Quentin Tarantino At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was interested in theatre design, stage design or television design. Jim Henson I was very interested in theatre, mostly in stage design. I did a little bit of acting. Jim Henson Pornography is a theatre of types, never of individuals. Susan Sontag The theatre was created to tell people the truth about life and the social situation. Stella Adler A Bachelor of Arts is one who makes love to a lot of women, and yet has the art to remain a bachelor. Helen Rowland A certain administration which I won't call by name took the arts out of the schools, and that left the brothers out on the street with nothing, so they went to the turntables and started rhyming. Then they had a way to express themselves, and that's the birth of hip-hop. Isaac Hayes A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is our belief that no human being who devotes his life and energy to the manufacture of fantasies can be anything but fundamentally inadequate. Christopher Hampton A large part of my life revolves around my dad. Sometimes, I even feel a strong sense of connection, something very tangible when I learn something new in the martial arts. Brandon Lee Against the dark background of this contemporary civilization of well-being, even the arts tend to mingle, to lose their identity. Eugenio Montale All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. Albert Einstein T.R.S.S