Art Quotes

The tensions are always based on financial resources. Something like film is very problematic because it is viewed as an art form and also as an industry with a pure commercial base.

Ann Macbeth

The dichotomy between art and industry is totally dysfunctional in terms of film.

Ann Macbeth

Nude nail polish wins hands down over intricate nail art.

Ashley Madekwe

I loved my time doing 'Private Practice' in Los Angeles, and I was quite challenged and excited to learn about the art of television, but I missed being on the stage.

Audra McDonald

Sincerity and the correct use of the voice are the greatest things in the art of acting.

Alla Nazimova

I made a lot of different experiments with tapes at that time, until I finally realized around 1995, that sound is an interesting subject for me. Ever since then sound got more and more integrated into my art works, musically as well as physically.

Alva Noto

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Anais Nin

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.

Anais Nin

That's what you want art to do, to open people up and start conversations.

Adepero Oduye

My mum is a big collector of art.

Agnes Obel

I recommend the art of slow reading.

Amos Oz

Interviewing is not a democratic art.

Andrew O'Hagan

A living museum must surely see itself as a locus of argument. A breathing art institution is not a lockup but a moveable feast.

Andrew O'Hagan

It is not up to me whether I win or lose. Ultimately, this might not be my day. And it is that philosophy towards sports, something that I really truly live by. I am emotional. I want to win. I am hungry. I am a competitor. I have that fire. But deep...

Apolo Ohno

For me, the '60s in the automotive industry was awesome. The cars are heavy, huge, rolling works of art.

Apolo Ohno

Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.

Austin O'Malley

I always argued against the auteur theory; films are a collaborative art form. I've had some fantastically good people help me make the movies.

Alan Parker

A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

Alexander Pope

So vast is art, so narrow human wit.

Alexander Pope

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.

Alexander Pope

One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.

Alexander Pope