Quotes of: Chaplin Keyword

Anybody can direct a picture once they know the fundamentals. Directing is not a mystery, it's not an art. The main thing about directing is: photograph the people's eyes.

John Ford

It would have to be connected with performance art somehow, either in the front of the house or the back. I was myopic about this from fourth grade on.

James Marsters

I did art; I made furniture. I didn't want to be a cliche - the Beatle's son who became a musician.

James McCartney

In fact, in many ways my mother was quite hippy-dippy, serving macrobiotic food and reading 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.'

Kristin Scott Thomas

Filmmaking is a huge privilege; it's not brain surgery. It's art, and art is supposed to be an enjoyable process, and it is an enjoyable experience for me.

Lake Bell

I don't dare postulate about science, but I know that it takes both emotion and intellect in order for art to happen.

Lukas Foss

I have the opportunity to learn about the fashion world, and I appreciate it as an art form... But I never want it to take over my acting.

Lupita Nyong'o

I think good art happens on that edge between comfortable and in a lot of pain, you know what I mean?

Liz Phair

How can anybody learn anything from an artwork when the piece of art only reflects the vanity of the artist and not reality?

Lou Reed

We need art. We've been telling stories since the beginning. As human beings, we need it for our survival.

Lili Taylor

The ability to workshop in stand-up comedy is incomparable to any art form, in my opinion.

Mike Birbiglia

Songwriting is a mysterious art. When I sit down to write a song, the end result should be mysterious and have this dark quality.

Martin Gore

From an art perspective, I don't know how you get better than 'Beetlejuice.' In terms of originality and a look, it's 100% unique.

Michael Keaton

Explain to me, please, why in our literature and art so often people absolutely incompetent in this field have the final word.

Mstislav Rostropovich

I grew up in the heat of '70s postmodern fiction and post-Godard films, and there was this idea that what mattered was the theory or meta in art.

Noah Baumbach

I do worry because it takes all types to make our culture, to make our art. We need it to be available to all.

Neve McIntosh

Nature is the most beautiful thing we have. It's better than art because it's from the creator.

Olivia Newton-John

I am an artisan. I only became an artist when people watch what I do. That is when it becomes art.

Rhys Ifans

In The Doors we have both musicians and poets, and both know of each other's art, so we can effect a synthesis.

Robby Krieger

I see things like they've never been seen before. Art is an accurate statement of the time in which it is made.

Robert Mapplethorpe

I'm a firm believer that actors take to work who they aren't at home. People show their other self in their art or in their work.

Robin Tunney