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'm interested in art for all. I don't want it to be only the sons and daughters of Tory MPs who get to see my plays.
Acting is an art form. If you are not creating something that's unusual and informative and at least has the possibility of being illuminating, then you are not into it as an art form.
Our most intimate contact with civilizations long since dust has been through the art which has survived them.
As long as there are musicians who have a passion for spontaneity, for creating something that's never been before, the art form of jazz will flourish.
Art is about expressing the true nature of the human spirit in whatever way one wishes to express it. If it is honest, it is beautiful. If it is not honest, it is obvious.
There was certainly less profanity in the Godfather than in the Sopranos. There was a kind of respect. It's not that I totally agreed with it, but it was a great piece of art.
I haven't ever found any great writing on that wonderful and often unappreciated art form, the insult.
Some couples could not work together but we enjoy working on our projects and building our art business.
There arose a belief in style - and in banality. Banality encompassed politics, too, because it was a common belief that politics were not worthy of art.
I have learned the art of filling in your lines with your visuals and your movies and your imagination.
I just get the feeling that if Jesse Helms was in charge of art in America, you'd go into a museum and see nothing but prints of dogs playing cards.
I'm interested in all kinds of art. I draw and paint and don't know how to play the banjo, but I do play the banjo.
The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest. It is he who invented the sublime art of ruining poetry.
In Europe, there is so much tradition, and everyone has established ideas as to what art should be and what it has always been.
I'm not an art director; I'm just not. I've always been somebody who has a sensibility that I hope is the same sensibility of others.
I wanted to get into art. I did some neon stuff. I worked in, not computer-generated, but computer manipulation of pictures.
I don't know much about modern art, but I guess I am modern art.
I think a smart person today realizes that you have to be part of the art films that are done just for the sake of the art.
The movie medium will eventually take its place as art because there is no other medium of interest to so many people.
It would make me feel that creative art has a chance in this crazy world that we all live in.
