Quotes of: West-coast Keyword

We're taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they're of equal value to happiness, excitement and inspiration.

Alanis Morissette

If you're into architecture and you're from the West, everything is hors d'oeuvres for working to rebuild the Temple. Ultimately you're led there. You can't escape it.

Ben Nicholson

I always feel that art in general and acting in particular should make the audience a little uncomfortable, to slap them and wake them up.

Antonio Banderas

Well, we were all in high school and we got together, and in college - we were in art college together.

Alice Cooper

The most wonderful time to be in the art world was in the sixties, because it wasn't a business - there was no business of doing art.

Arne Glimcher

I was an actor as a kid in Boston. Then I went to art school with Brice Marden, the Massachusetts College of Art. So the hybrid of being an actor and artist is a director.

Arne Glimcher

Opera is an exclusive art form, so it cannot be that popular. I just do what I love to do.

Anna Netrebko

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.

Bruce Beresford

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.

Douglas Sirk

No, my degree was history, not the practice of art! I can't draw to save my life you know.

Emma Anderson

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.

Frank Oz

I don't know much about modern art, but I guess I am modern art.

Gloria Trevi

I went to art school, I think it helped me a great deal because it taught me who I am.

Jackie DeShannon

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

I'm not gonna give the British Government the joy of keeping taxing me. They don't tax art. And all my cars are just a collection of art.

Jay Kay

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 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

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

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