Top 1200 Art Form Quotes & Sayings - Page 7

The subject of contemporary art should include a political dimension, the distrust contemporary art has towards the existing order. One manifestation of this distrust is the mechanical dichotomization between art's form and its political content; the other is the institutionalizing tendency of anti-institutionalization. We almost never resist ourselves - the part of ourselves that has been institutionalized. We have occupied the word "resistance" and have become its owner, while "resistance" has become our servant. Thus, we own "resistance" and occupy it as a position of power.

Film is a collaborative art form. I don't know why you wouldn't recognize the stunt performers.

Life is very nice, but it lacks form. It's the aim of art to give it some.

I think art is the only political power, the only revolutionary power, the only evolutionary power, the only power to free humankind form all repression. I say not that art has already realized this, on the contrary, and because it has not, it has to be developed as a weapon, at first there are radical levels, then you can speak about special details.

Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.

Movies suddenly became film and cinema an art form and terribly chic.

I like the idea of people who've had some success in one form secretly wanting to be something else; I have some of that myself. I look for it in other people who've established themselves in some particular art form, and then you find out that they really would like to design running shoes, or edit literary magazines or something.

Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.

My study of religion, which I regard in many ways as an art form, is a search for meaning.

Yes, I am a thorough republican. No other form of government is so favorable to the growth of art.

I've always sought to express a tension in form and meaning in order to achieve a veracity. I have come to the conclusion that the art world has to join us, women artists, not we join it. When women are in leadership roles and gain rewards and recognition, then perhaps 'we' (women and men) can all work together in art world actions.

When I got into graffiti, it was the most-exciting art form and it changed the course of my life.

Art is the suitcase of history, carrying the essentials. Art is the life buoy of history. Art is seed, art is memory, art is vaccine.

All of the generations go to what is chic for them, and theater seems to be an older generation's art form.

Art is the reordering of nature - the qualities of space and time - in new perceptual and material form.

Mime is in our daily life and with little effort, we can all perfect the art form.

There is no better deliverance from the world than through art, and a man can form no surer bond with it.

Drag is never going to be completely mainstream because it's still a queer art form.

Filmmaking is a very privileged art form. It costs a lot of money to make these things.

Music has the power to bring people together like no other art form.

I’m just a storyteller, and the cinema happens to be my medium. I like it because it recreates life in movement, enlarges it, enhances it, distills it. For me, it’s far closer to the miraculous creation of life than, say, a painting or music or even literature. It’s not just an art form; it’s actually a new form of life, with its own rhythms, cadences, perspectives and transparencies. It’s my way of telling a story.

Film is not just about the art form but also how it fares at the box office.

Creating a wonderful drama is an art form, while comedy is just entertainment.

I've always felt that music is an art form that deserves to live the life of the artist.

Mathematics is not merely an idle art form, it is an essential part of our society.

Tea is more than an idealization of the form of drinking; it is a religion of the art of life.

There is no such thing as abstract art, or else all art is abstract, which amounts to the same thing. Abstract art no more exists than does curved art yellow art or green art.

True art takes note not merely of form but also of what lies behind.

You gotta know when to be lazy. Done correctly, it's an art form that benefits everyone.

Make no mistake about it, magick is an art form, and every true magician is an artist.

I think singing is such an important and incredible art form and it is quite undervalued at times.

The most effective way of destroying art is the canonization of one given form. And one philosophy.

Abstract art has helped us to experience the emotional power inherent in pure form.

It's kind of a crazy art form, movies, in that you have to get it right the day you do it, generally.

Washington is a mean town where human sacrifice has been raised to an art form.

Honesty is the best part of any art form. If you don't have that, you're kidding yourself and your listener.

What makes art Christian art? Is it simply Christian artists painting biblical subjects like Jeremiah? Or, by attaching a halo, does that suddenly make something Christian art? Must the artist’s subject be religious to be Christian? I don’t think so. There is a certain sense in which art is its own justification. If art is good art, if it is true art, if it is beautiful art, then it is bearing witness to the Author of the good, the true, and the beautiful

I'm not criticizing Hollywood because I work there, I partly live there. But I'm saying this is the way it is, commerce is taking over art. Commerce has become the most important thing in the film industry. Hollywood is an industry, it's not an art form, therefore they have to address the bottom line. But in a way it's sad when you get a remake, isn't it?

Somewhere in my head, a private conviction exists that 'Search is the Process' and 'Discovery the Art Form.

Fashion is also a form of art, and like every kind of art, it has its own way of expression. In other words, if a dress looks better on a thin girl, on a catwalk, during a very specific moment of time and space then it's represented as part of a "fashion Show". It is after all a "Show" and it has to be understood by people that it is a "show" and not real life.

Opera is the ultimate art form. It has singing and music and drama and dance and emotion and story.

Writing is a channeling of an individual experience; so is reading. That's what's so exciting about this art form - it's interactive.

I've always thought photography is not so much of an art form but a way of communicating and passing on information.

The aim of art is to understand and establish order, which is another form of beauty.

Films are an art form which are sold after packaging in this commercial world

Whatever poetry that was in me was coming out in the form of constructing art books!

Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.

I like natural disasters and I think that they may be the highest form of art possible to experience

Jazz is an art form that depends on its antecedents, there must be respect for the people that have gone before.

The function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible.

I love music videos, I really do. I think it's kind of sad that it's a dying art form.

A lot of us have all sorts of ideas, and we select some rather than others and give expression to those... and some works of art are more successful than others. Some languish in obscurity and are never heard of again, while others form the foundation of a whole school of art.

The mathematic, then, is an art. As such it has its styles and style periods. It is not, as the layman and the philosopher (who is in this matter a layman too) imagine, substantially unalterable, but subject like every art to unnoticed changes form epoch to epoch. The development of the great arts ought never to be treated without an (assuredly not unprofitable) side-glance at contemporary mathematics.

Fighting is an expression. It's a form of speech, and that's why they call it martial arts. It's an art.

I'm very much of the opinion that theatre is a collective art form, not just one person's vision.

I made nepotism an art form, so I get to work with a lot of relatives and they're part of it.

"We can't name it, but we can sing along." That is my ultimate relationship to any art form, but especially music.

Film is an art form. Dissecting and understanding it is a part of our own interest in humanity.

No form of nature is inferior to art; for the arts merely imitate natural forms.

... the novel is called upon like no other art form to incorporate the intellectual content of an age.