Art Quotes

I enjoy theater just for the sheer excitement of it and the immediate response that you get, and how every night the audience is a little bit different; but then, it's expensive to work in N.Y., and stage work is limited, so you're just doing it for ...

Dorian Missick

I had had no art training.

Dorothy Malone

Magic touches people in the way great art does. It lets them see the world with new eyes.

Drummond Money-Coutts

The question of truth is forever in the air, and people look for it with particular fervor in art.

Duane Michals

Art has to address eternal issues.

Duane Michals

I'm very hard on the art world just being a big business.

Duane Michals

I don't want to do panel games or adverts. I really like challenges. I always get roles as an art teacher or a photographer. In the future I want to play something like a mugger/assassin/pastry chef.

Dylan Moran

The best thing I ever learned from my dad was he knew he wasn't the best of singers, but he always knew he was a great entertainer, and I always thought that was a good concept to bring along, that ultimately acting is an entertainment art and you ha...

Dean Norris

I make clothes people can wear; I don't make art.

Dries van Noten

I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form, but as a medium of information.

David Ogilvy

For me, being in front of a camera is a matter of practicing and refining your art. I think, if you're telling a story worth telling, it's worth investing the time into developing.

Danny Pino

Back when I was restoring art and antiques, finding ivory was very difficult because it's illegal, and the only difference between bone and ivory is that bone is free and not illegal.

Dan Phillips

The art of coalition command - whether it is here in Afghanistan, whether it was in Iraq or in Bosnia or in Haiti - is to take the resources you are provided with, understand what the strengths and weaknesses are and to employ them to the best overal...

David Petraeus

Just letting it out is one of the definitions of bad art.

Dennis Potter

Medical training taught me the art of breaking down the complex maze of stories, symbols and rituals into clear systems. You could say that it helped me figure out the anatomy and physiology of mythology and its relevance in a society more incisively...

Devdutt Pattanaik

I don't want to be in an art bubble.

Diane Paulus

Art cannot be looked at as an elite, sacred event anymore. It has to be embraced as an accessible, popular form, which is what I believe theater is at its roots.

Diane Paulus

We're a depraved civilization. All this technology, all the computer games and the iPhones... nobody will sit for art anymore. What a dismaying state of humanity.

Diane Paulus

When you're a freelance director, you are hired to create the art, and it kind of stops there.

Diane Paulus

I knew ART was was going to give me this opportunity to expand my role as a director and finally let me have a seat at the table where I could get involved in these policy discussions and producing discussions and, frankly, the financial discussions.

Diane Paulus

I don't have anything to say about other people's art and their work.

Dolly Parton