Whatever art form you’re working in, it’s crucial to see it clearly, to feel it clearly, and not to worry about the results, or how someone else will see it.
Drag will always be a dynamic and powerful art form, and it is my duty now to honor the artists who have come before me while continuing to pioneer my own path and history by being open to growth and change as a human and a drag superstar.
Barack Obama’s life was so much simpler in 2009. Back then, he had refined the cold act of blaming others for the bad economy into an art form. Deficits? Blame Bush’s tax cuts. Spending? Blame the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. No business investment? Blame Wall Street.
It’s a slippery slope when you make the argument that hip hop is only a black person’s art. Certainly, its origins are in that community, but if you want it to endure as an art form you have to let other people have their way with it.
Film is an art form. Dissecting and understanding it is a part of our own interest in humanity.
You don’t show respect to Frank Sinatra and his great example by trying to sound exactly like him. You show it by sounding exactly like you, and that’s the way jazz has always progressed as an art form.
Creating a wonderful drama is an art form, while comedy is just entertainment.
Until film is just as easily accessible as a pen or pencil, then it’s not completely an art form. In painting, you can just pick up a piece of chalk, a stick, or whatever. In sculpture, you can get a rock. Writing, you just need a pencil and paper. Film has been a very elitist medium. It costs so much money.
I’m very much of the opinion that theatre is a collective art form, not just one person’s vision.
‘Hamilton’ is a game-changer for the musical theater genre. It’s moved the art form forward so much and redefined so many things about what we do in theater, so it’s pretty hard to oversell it.
I loved comedy all my life. I think it’s a real powerful art form.
Movies are not an art form where you get to kind of sit in your art gallery and paint, you know? You don’t do that. You’re spending a lot of somebody else’s money.
Ballet is like any other art form in that we all start out knowing nothing about it.
Comedy is a man’s art form. It pretty much came from a time, post-World War II really – the 1950s are not really known for the subtle expressions of feminine life.
My work or art form should represent the kind of world view I believe in.
Songwriting I think, or any art form, the inspiration comes from your personal life or it can be from politics or region you live in.
Once you appreciate an art form, you’re open to everything.
There is a lot of snobbery towards pop music, to me and pop in general – it’s kind of a despised art form.
There used to be an art form called the ‘comedy of manners.’ Why aren’t comedies of manners made now in this country? The answer is simple. We no longer have manners to speak of.
I love doing stand up. I think it’s a really worthwhile art form. It’s so unique in all the things it combines, in terms of it being philosophizing, preaching, speaking truth to power and basic communicating. It’s a good way to talk back to the world.
Clothes are not frippery. Properly done, they can be an art form.
Because theatre is a story-telling art form, we feel entitled to assume that the playwright got there before we got there.
I’ve grown as an actor. I am more confident within my art form. I have also grown as a person. I am more compassionate, generous, and less judgmental.
I think rap definitely has its place in the art world. I think it is an art form. But, just like any art form, you can misuse it.
One: whose shoulders do you stand on? And two: what do you stand for? These are two questions that I always begin my poetry workshops with students because at times, poetry can seem like this dead art form for old white men who just seem like they were born to be old, like, you know, Benjamin Button or something.
Wrestling needs to be about the art form again. It needs to be about painting a picture and having a really good match.
I was really trying to sell to people who hate jazz: to make a case for the art form as youthful and energetic, not the sort of rarified intellectual activity it’s painted as.
There are not many people that I respect more than rappers. I’m a huge fan of hip hop. It’s incredible, one of the most influential things to me. It takes real genius to be able to do well. It’s a very deep art form.
For some reason, being on time in this industry can be a lost art form, especially for actors! It’s important to remember that other people are always waiting for you on set, and it’s really unfair to make them wait.
I think it’s impossible for hip-hop to be a dying art form.
Film is a different art form with its own demands and its own riches.
I wanted to open the dialogue about race in ballet and bring more people in. It’s just beautiful to see the interest that has exploded for such an incredible art form that I will forever be grateful to!
I started rapping before anybody had ever bought a car from it. It was truly about the art form and the culture, more so than now, where it’s a successful way to make money. Back then you had to be doing it because you liked it.
I love the art form of songwriting. I get to carry a lot of vibes to a lot of people. My songs are all about the human condition, and people will be able to find themselves in my songs.
Comedy is inherently subversive because it turns the normal reality on its head. The art form is all about these questions and contradictions. In comedy, we’re dealing with language that we all understand, but words can have a dozen other things around them that alter or affect meaning.
Opera is an exclusive art form, so it cannot be that popular. I just do what I love to do.
The thing that I probably enjoy the most and also am the best at in whatever art form I’m working in is being the protector of the emotional experience of the audience.
Tap dancing is like… it’s equivalent to music, not only for the African American community, but also for the world. Tap dancing is like language; it’s like air: it’s like everything else that we need in order to survive. I’m blessed and honored to be knowledgeable of the art form and to be a part of the art form.
I’ve always thought of the book as a visual art form, and it should represent a single artistic idea, which it does if you write your own material.
As I’ve gotten less righteous, less pedagogic, I have become more loving of the artificiality, the art form, the imitation of life in film.
The thing about acting that’s unlike any other art form is that it’s collaborative; directing and acting are a collaboration, and your acting won’t succeed if the lighting design doesn’t succeed or sets don’t succeed.
The truth is I do take drag really seriously, and I think that there’s kind of a place for that – to see it as this political and historical art form, and to want to continue pushing it in new directions. And also honor the old directions as well. So I’m sort of like a drag intellectual/drag queen.
