Quotes of: Performing-arts Keyword

You dislike Basil because, without his art, his life is horribly plain. Unlike Dorian who has made an art out of his life. Basil produces art; Dorian consumes it and lets it overwhelm him.

Abed Yaman

It seems obvious, looking back, that the artists of Weimar Germany and Leninist Russia lived in a much more attenuated landscape of media than ours, and their reward was that they could still believe, in good faith and without bombast, that art could...

The Shock of the New

We like to think of film and music as art, but actually art is something that is not restricted.

Ahmed Best

If art doesn't move people, then art has failed.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Art is Art. Everything else is everything else.

Ad Reinhardt

Art is messy, art is chaos - so you need a system.

Andrew Stanton

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

Ai Weiwei

Art imitates life and, sometimes, life imitates art. It's a weird combination of elements.

Bruce Willis

We're a pop art band. Not a pop band.

Chris Stein

I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.

Ernst Fischer

All great art is born of the metropolis.

Ezra Pound

Art should offend people because art should challenge people.

Eriq La Salle

To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.

George Jean Nathan

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

Jacques Barzun

Great art is an instant arrested in eternity.

James Huneker

I've always said that an art critic can put aside politics around art.

Jerry Saltz

The art of pleasing is the art of deception.

Luc de Clapiers

Stealing things is a glorious occupations, particularly in the art world.

Malcolm Mclaren

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

Oscar Wilde

The interpretation of dreams is a great art.

Paracelsus

The perfection of art is to conceal art.

Quintilian