Words matter. These are the best Art Form Quotes from famous people such as Sean Baker, Diane Paulus, Russell Smith, Matt Walsh, Scott Coker, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I’m an advocate of all mediums – it’s a larger canvas for us as artists – but we have to keep in mind that celluloid film is what created this wonderful art form, and we have to keep it alive.
Opera is the ultimate art form. It has singing and music and drama and dance and emotion and story.
No surprise here: Pop music is by far the most conservative art form there is.
When I came into improv, it was almost like an outsider art form.
To say martial arts, or the combative form – mixed martial arts – is not an art form is incorrect.
Acting is an art form and you want to take roles that are challenged and it’s more of a challenge I think to play dark characters. Not that I want to always play those, but it is a challenge and challenges are rewarding and fun.
Photography was inspired by painting, cinema by theatre and photography, I don’t believe that any new art form was ever created from scratch.
There are documentaries that will just save your life and be the conduit to the art form you started out loving.
It’s a European art form, and you’re used to seeing a certain type of person as a ballerina. And I don’t look like a lot of the girls around me.
Cinema is arguably the 20th century’s most influential art form.
The number of opera houses around the world and the high attendance rates show that opera an art form that is more popular than ever.
I don’t think that jazz, as any kind of an art form, has any permanence attached to it, apart from the practitioners of it.
I struggle with the idea of comparing people’s work and art. The notion of giving awards or putting a competitive spin on something that is a relative art form is sort of odd to me.
I think I realized it was an art form at the beginning, but it took me a really long time before I was able to view what I was performing myself as an art form.
90% of every art form is garbage – dance and stand-up, painting and music. Focus on the 10% that’s good, suck it up, and drive on.
Film is an amazing art form, but so is life. When your career and your life can work together, and one can support the other, it’s just great.
Wrestling is an art form.
I consider skateboarding an art form, a lifestyle and a sport. ‘Action sport’ would be the least offensive categorization.
I think for a long time it seemed like working in an art form and being a feminist meant portraying women in a perfect, angelic light. And there’s nothing feminist about that.
I want to take this art form to a whole new level in India so that kids say that they want to become dancers when they grow up.
In the dear dead days beyond recall, when I was in my prime as a film critic, the industry was booming. Hollywood, to give them their due, always called it the industry, through quite a few imagined it as an art form and went through several hours regularly at tiresome films in the sacred cause of art.
Interpretive thinking, as an art form, is dying.
When I started in the comic book business, ‘Art Of’ books were strictly the provenance of the greats, like Rembrandt and Da Vinci. But times change, and so do attitudes. Now the comic is considered an art form, and I hope ‘A Life in Words and Pictures’ contributes a little to that art form’s history.
Makeup is an art form for me. It’s a form of expression, and it’s such a cool way to get my creative juices flowing.
In my opinion nobody owns the patent on the art form of professional wrestling and the way it does its business.
Avant-garde architects have never been able to depend on the support of the establishment, since the customary patrons of this most conservative and slowly moving art form have historically been resistant to innovation and experiment.
A tapper sticks to existing routines. Whereas hoofing… a hoofer pushes the art form.
Vine was an art form.
Makin’ records is one art form and playin’ live is another. It’s like the difference between makin’ a movie and doin’ theatre.
Science fiction to me is the ultimate art form, because it speculates on bodies and worlds that don’t exist.
I see clothes as an art form, and also a statement: no matter how vociferously people protest that they don’t care what they wear, they sort of have to.
I think it’s sad that movies and television have caused the theatre to fade as a popular art form. I hope to get young people into the theatre and expose them to Shakespeare.
Music, for me, is the most sacred of the arts. I say that because music communicates in a way that no other art form can. All great art has a spirit that we recognize and appreciate, but music goes directly to your heart.
Chicago was where I realized that improv is its own thing, its own art form. And through that, you kind of develop a work ethic of not selling it short.
When I moved to Los Angeles, I wrote spec screenplays. I was really poor, and I thought I was just gonna do this for a while to make a little money so I could write novels. I thought movies were a second-class art form. I condescended to it – I didn’t know enough to know it was really gonna be hard.
Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.
I’m really excited to share cabaret, the art form, not just with the generations that are above me, but also my generation and the generation under me. I think it’s an art form that’s incredibly important, and I think that my generation is a little unfamiliar with it.
I just write what I write, produce the music I produce and try to give myself a chance to stay true to the art form. If you try to rein in an art form, it can be hurtful to what you are making.
In Latin America, cinema has always been a bourgeois activity, I guess, as it is everywhere. It’s just a stupidly expensive art form, and there is nothing you can do about it.
I don’t feel that rap has been respected as an art form. Because people have seen rappers rap off the top of their heads, they don’t think it is difficult.
Music has the power to bring people together like no other art form.
What is interesting about self-analysis is that it leads nowhere – it is an art form in itself.
Emotions are the basics of any art form!
To me, snowboarding is really an art form, and I think every athlete, every snowboarder has her own style, and that makes them stand out.
I’ve always felt that music is an art form that deserves to live the life of the artist.
I create openings, and I move. I fight. It’s an art form.
Silent pictures show us how we lived and what our attitudes were. And as an art form, they can be wonderfully entertaining and often inspirational.
At its best, cinema does retain a remarkable ability to speak to people of every age, from every background, and in ways that almost any other art form in popular culture struggles to compete with.
A book is one kind of an art form and a film is a different art form. I think as a writer you just have to say, well the book is one thing, and the film is a completely different one.
I found filmmaking to be a very practical art form. It’s about figuring out how to create within the very practical limitations/constraints of time, money, and large groups of collaborators.
I strongly believe in the art form of the album.
What cultural revolutionaries do not seem to grasp is that, far from being a grass-roots art form that has been taken over by businessmen, rock itself comes from the commercial exploitation of the blues.
If you consider film an art form, as some people do, then the Western would be a truly American art form, much as jazz is.
Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it.
I really have a lot of respect for music, the art form of music. It’s my whole life. I don’t care about any of that other stuff. And I have always felt that way. I’ll build a career on my own merits, my own hard work and nothing else.
I think a craft becomes an art form when the space of possible solutions becomes so huge that engineering can’t carry you through.
There is a definite argument to be made that videogames are becoming an art form put together by artists of different types.
Dick Clark was a really great influence in my career; he helped me a lot with his whole organization, and they were awesome to me at all different points – but one thing that I really disagreed with him on was when he said that what I do, pop music, is a disposable art form.
Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century.
American ballet… is ultimately an evolutionary art form, requiring many voices to creatively carry forward.
Comedy is really not like any other art form in that it’s very specialized and varied in it’s content, but generic in it’s title.
I think what makes the Byrds stand up all these years is the basis in folk music. Folk music, being a timeless art form, is the foundation of the Byrds. We were all from a folk background. We considered ourselves folk singers even when we strapped on electric instruments and dabbled in different things.
I like music because it’s the only invisible art form.
It’s harder to do anything in the public eye now, in terms of if you’re worried about scrutiny or being judged negatively. It’s not as much of a free ride. If you’re someone who’s making film or TV or music, or any kind of art form now, there’s a billion outlets, and they all have an opinion.
