Top 1200 Art Form Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it.

The history of country music is as important as any other art form.

It's a new art form, showing people how little we care.

Art is a form of catharsis emotional release, purging, cleansing, purifying.

Self-nurturance, or learning to bask in bliss, is an acquired art form.

Dance like any other art form has no language.

It's disappointing to see films become pure entertainment, so that it's not an art form.

Sometimes when you've reached a peak experience, you look for other peak experiences... I'd always been interested in art. I was looking for other experiences outside of sports. Art was a form of expression I had always liked a great deal.

I have now come to a stage of realization in which I see that God is walking in every human form and manifesting Himself alike through the sage and the sinner, the virtuous and the vicious. Therefore when I meet different people I say to myself, “God in the form of the saint, God in the form of the sinner, God in the form of the righteous, God in the form of the unrighteous.

Cinema is arguably the 20th century's most influential art form.

There is no point where art so nearly touches nature as when it appears in the form of words.

I would describe myself as a writer and a student of media. If there's a central idea in media theory, it's to take media as form. It might grow out of philosophical aesthetics or the study of literature and visual art, but the various strands of media theory converge in treating all of those as subsets of the study of media as form.

Art is a form of intelligence, it can be developed, it's linked to intuition and it's something that all humans have

Photography has always been a struggle for me to take seriously as an art form.

The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.

I've always considered rock 'n' roll, the music and the dancing, an art form.

No surprise here: Pop music is by far the most conservative art form there is.

Television as we have it isn't an art form - it's a piece of furniture that is good for a few things.

The ballet world I don't think is an art form that is quick to change or to adjust or evolve.

Art is foremost a state of mind, and only secondarily a problem of form.

I think that limitations are the most important part of any art form

My work or art form should represent the kind of world view I believe in.

In America, people really love movies here and it's part of the culture. Even in Germany, still sometimes, the theater is always bigger than movies. It's more art. Movies are more popcorn. Here, movies are really an art form.

I think trolling is a sort of art form, a bit of a craft.

I feel that when I am painting, it is a form of worship. I see how wonderful nature is and how wonderful art is... and by trying to produce these works of art, I feel that I am just showing my appreciation of these creations.

Children's literature is as valid an art form as any other.

I don't think there is such a thing as being too raunchy when it comes to the art form of burlesque.

A work of art is a form that articulates forces, making them intelligible.

Movies were very important. The art-form of the 20th century.

Being content with what you have already is an art form that leads to a peace that can’t be replaced by anything else.

Polarizing is the greatest achievement in any art form, even in cinema.

Acting is not rocket science, but it is an art form. What you are doing is illuminating humanity. Or not.

The object of art is to crystallize emotion into thought, and then fix it in form.

All art is a form of hacking, it's a kind of breeching open of a closed system.

Opera is an exclusive art form, so it cannot be that popular. I just do what I love to do.

The art form is to become one with the hurdle, to make it your friend, and I embraced that process.

I see filmmaking as a business and pity anyone who regards it as an art form.

I do think that there's an art form to parenting, and I have nothing but admiration for those who do it well.

Art is difficult. It's not entertainment. There are only a few people who can say something about art - it's very restricted. When I see a new artist I give myself a lot of time to reflect and decide whether it's art or not. Buying art is not understanding art.

I'm a text artist. It's an unsung art form because it's so ahead of its time.

I don't get many hecklers now but answering them is an art form in itself.

I think you can do anything with comics that you could do in just about any art form.

What is interesting about self-analysis is that it leads nowhere - it is an art form in itself.

Unquestionably, standup comedy is and has always been an art form.

Being funny is a gift, and, when done well, is an art form.

What quality is shared by all objects that provoke our aesthetic emotions? Only one answer seems possible— significant form. In each, lines and colors combined in a particular way; certain forms and relations of forms, stir our aesthetic emotions. These relations and combinations of lines and colors, these aesthetically moving forms, I call ‘Significant Form’; and ‘Significant Form’ is the one quality common to all works of visual art.

I am dedicated to dancing, and I want to help spread this art form.

All art is the tension, expressed between the uncontainable and its one perfect inevitable form.

Fine art, that exists for itself alone, is art in a final state of impotence. If nobody, including the artist, acknowledges art as a means of knowing the world, then art is relegated to a kind of rumpus room of the mind and the irresponsibility of the artist and the irrelevance of art to actual living becomes part and parcel of the practice of art.

Understanding is a form of blindness. Good art, I think, can never be understood.

There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.

I love doing my podcast, but it's not my art form. I don't have to work on it. It's off the cuff.

Writing is the one art form that really should allow you to hang yourself.

I think multicamera comedy is a much-maligned American art form.

Art arises in those strange complexities of action that are called human beings. It is a kind of human behavior. As such it is not magic, except as human beings are magical. Nor is it concerned in absolutes, eternities, "forms," beyond those that may reside in the context of the human being and be subject to his vicissitudes. Art is not an inner state of consciousness, whatever that may mean. Neither is it essentially a supreme form of communication. Art is human behavior, and its values are contained in human behavior.

[Rewriting is] a whole other art form; it's about craftsmanship.

Film in the 20th century, it's the American art form, like jazz.

One of the aspects of form that I have been very interested in is stasis - the concept of form which is not so directional in time, not so much climactic form, but rather form which allows time, to stand still.

I loved comedy all my life. I think it's a real powerful art form.

One interesting thing about jazz, or art in general, but jazz especially is such an individual art form in the sense that improvisation is such a big part of it, so it feels like it should be less soldiers in an army and more like free spirits melding. And yet, big band jazz has a real military side to it.