arts

"Because theatre is a story-telling art form, we feel entitled to assume that the playwright got there before we got there."

"It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found."

"Filmmaking, like any other art, is a very profound means of human communication; beyond the professional pleasure of succeeding or the pain of failing, you do want your film to be seen, to communicate itself to other people."

"A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art."

"Politics is the art of controlling your environment."

"Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day."

"All equestrians, if they last long enough, learn that riding in whatever form is a lifelong sport and art, an endeavor that is both familiar and new every time you take the horse out of his stall or pasture."

"Dancers are a work of art - they are the canvas on which their work is painted."

"Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos."

"Great art is an instant arrested in eternity."

"You begin with the possibilities of the material."

"Impressionism; it is the birth of Light in painting."

"I believe that my art gets across the point that I'm in this morality theater trying to help the underdog, and I'm speaking socially here, showing concern and making psychological and philosophical statements for the underdog."

"The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web."

"All I know is movies; I went to school, but movies are my reference point for everything. I figured I'd have to P.A. or intern in the art department. Because the filmmaking process is so many people creating to make one piece of magic, so I've always wanted to be involved. With the acting, I doubted it."

"To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event."

"If my art has nothing to do with people's pain and sorrow, what is 'art' for?"

"The art of medicine was to be properly learned only from its practice and its exercise."

"Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it."

"To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist."