I'm an unabashed elitist. Everyone needs a good editor, and there is peril in worshiping amateurism and the unedited in science, art, and journalism.
Life is very nice, but it has no shape. The object of art is actually to give it some ..." Jean Anouilh, The Rehearsal
The visual arts will one day be king. The pop stars and celebrities soon to be forgotten.
The actor creates with his own flesh and blood all those things which all the arts try in some way to describe.
The beauty of any work of art is related to the pleasure it gives us when we know it well.
Art seems to me to be a state of soul more than anything else.
The arts are very alive in Ireland, so that had its influence on me. But I consider myself European, really.
God made man mortal and to console this transitory creature He gave him an immortal toy called Art!
My mother never learned English, but in Russia, the greatest thing was to give a child to the arts. And so they gave me to the ballet.
To pull off successful attacks in debates, you have to execute with nuance and subtlety. It has to be artful.
Nothing is new anymore. We're living in a post-everything society and "art" itself has become satire.
To talk of a modern work of art enduring is sillier than talking of the eternal values of Standard Oil.
Artists, by their free expressions, encourage others to be free. This is the quality that makes works of art enduring.
Mr. Chairman, obviously a $60 million cut in the National Endowment for the Arts would be a disaster.
I don't have good business sense. You never get much money for the arts. But I like independence. I like to grow.
So what it boils down to, in my humble opinion, is that we need to support the arts in schools, and at every other level in the education of children.
I'd love to do more theatre and acting. I attended a performing arts high school in London, and it would be great to be able to put all of that training to use again.
Everyone wants instant everything, and they want instant success, but I always think you should treat things in the arts like a garden, and let them grow.
In another life, before taking the veil of journalistic purity, I practiced the black arts of a political operative, including 'debate prep.'
I'm very crafty! One time I made a television set out of a cardboard box - Everybody thought it was a lark! This was the beginning of a love affair with the arts.
Music had been my first love among the arts, and I was fascinated by it, as I still am.
