Top 1200 Classical Art Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

I studied dance for about 15 years, various disciplines, with classical ballet as my primary.

My dad was a really good classical guitarist. He took lessons with a student of Andre Segovia.

I can work across all genres of music be it classical, hip-hop, western, traditional or folk.

Much of Indian science seems intuitive and not bound by the rigid thinking of classical scientists.

I don't believe that classical architecture is enough to engage people anymore. They say: 'So what else is new?'

The art of living is the art of bringing dreams and reality together.

For me, I'm way more at home in heavy metal than I am in classical music.

I think it's very important to maintain the classical Christian distinction between the Creator and creation.

Ah, but art and trouble go hand in hand. If you cannot be troubled to create art from your heart, then your art will never trouble the heart of others.

I don't like the idea of 'classical crossover,' even if sometimes I see this category given to what I'm doing.

My mother was a classical pianist and my stepfather was an industrialist who was passionate about composing contemporary music.

When it comes to the street-art world, there are a lot of people who realize if they go out and put up a few pieces of street art and photograph them really well, even if their locations weren't actually that high-profile or dangerous, with the level of exposure they get from the Internet, with a large audience, they can maintain that rebel cache by having it be theoretically documented street art.

I was raised with a lot of classical music. I loved ballet. I was a bun head for 10 years.

Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology.

Neither camera, nor lens, nor film determine the quality of pictures; it is the visual perception of the man behind the mechanism which brings them to life. Art contains the allied ideas of making and begetting, of being master of one's craft and able to create. Without these properties no art exists and no photographic art can come into being

Maybe in 10 years,I'll only be doing "classical" comedy. Or crashing my car into trees.

Classical music has become rarefied, like a maiden aunt that nobody wants to talk to.

I trained in London as a classical actor, but you've no idea what way your career will go.

The art market is global now, and there's becoming more of an international consensus about what constitutes good art.

Honest, I listen to classical mostly. It keeps my mind fresh to write rock songs.

I don't run after money or fame. The only thing I have always wished is to be a classical singer.

I wanted to be an animator originally. I went to art school; I went to art college and everything. But that screen was just calling me.

History has proven that art depicting black people cannot be disentangled from the political implications that such art has on their lives. As Africans were being stripped from the continent and sailed across the Atlantic to the Western world, depictions of black people in Western art changed in order to further render them racialized caricatures.

It would nice to live in a world where art can just be art!

If advertising is not an official or state art, it is nonetheless clearly art.

Art, art of any kind, shows that folks are trying.

I was brought up by my mother, and she is my guru in classical singing. I have trained primarily under her.

I play the piano and have been playing since I was 7, mainly classical Chopin, Beethoven, Mozart.

Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy.

Art is something to be proud of. Art is no compromise. As an actor, you're giving it up, you're at the mercy of so many other people.

Jazz, for me, is a closed circuit, like the term baroque in the world of classical music.

The first notes I still play when I start a sound check are classical. Those are my roots.

Despite being a classical musician, I keep poking my nose in other genres of music.

What I do for migraines when I get them, I listen to classical music, and I turn it up really loud.

I wasn't even a theater kid in high school. I studied classical piano, and I ran track.

It is a significant symbol that street art is gaining increased attention and credibility in the art world and that's a good thing.

Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth.

I love Western classical music - I grew up on that thanks to my parents who loved it too.

I call the art of theatre a "dirty art", since there are so many people involved who have needs and whims to be satisfied.

I started out in the theater, and my background is classical. I'd love to be in a film version of a Shakespeare play.

Efforts to revive the art principles of the past at best produce works of art that resemble a stillborn child.

I personally don't care for abstract art. I have always felt, 'To each his own.' There's art out there for everybody.

Do not set out to make Mexican art, or American, Chinese, or Russian art. Think in terms of universality.

Art leaves something to the listener; that's what separates art from craft.

What is art in the final analysis? Art is the shining forth of one's interiority.

Music is art, and art is an integral part of the human experience.

Now that rock is turning 50, it's become classical in itself. It's interesting to see that development.

A perfect example of the new republic's urge to drape itself with the togas of classical respectability.

Art is maybe a subversive activity. There is a certain rebellion when you are an artist at heart, even if only in the art of living.

Juilliard gave me the ability to go and do classical, contemporary, comedy, drama, everything.

If politics is the art of the possible, research is surely the art of the soluble. Both are immensely practical-minded affairs.

Ruefulness is one of the classical tones of American fiction. It fosters a native, deglamorized form of anxiety.

Another classical music teacher from Performing Arts that I've stayed in contact with is Jonathan Strasser.

I always felt music to be universal and undifferentiated - Western classical, folk, Carnatic or Hindustani and so on.

The art of cookery is the art of poisoning mankind, by rendering the appetite still importunate, when the wants of nature are supplied.

It is art to conceal art. -Ars est celare artem

I kind of lost interest in the classical dance. I was very much interested in the modern choreography.

In every art, beginners must start with models of those who have practiced the same art before them.

I had been exposed to classical music my whole life; even before I was born.

Why I talk so seriously about art is that art is the only thing that helps people stay alive, and it is the only thing that has allowed people to create joy in this insane, suppressive universe. And art is the only thing that they can't get rid of. They've tried, but ultimately they can't stamp it out.