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I don't think theater is dying, and musicals are a great American art form. We've got apple pie, jazz and musical theater.
Fiction is all about vicarious experiences and getting into other people's heads in a way that no other art form lets you.
Ballet is an incredibly difficult, beautiful art form that takes a lot of training, a lot of time, and a lot of hard work.
If you consider film an art form, as some people do, then the Western would be a truly American art form, much as jazz is.
I consider skateboarding an art form, a lifestyle and a sport. 'Action sport' would be the least offensive categorization.
Because theatre is a story-telling art form, we feel entitled to assume that the playwright got there before we got there.
I do feel a commitment to this art form and to my father's teachings, and the older I am getting, the more I am feeling it.
I don't think that jazz, as any kind of an art form, has any permanence attached to it, apart from the practitioners of it.
Someone once accused me of trying to turn the sitcom into an art form, and I really believe that's what I was trying to do.
In America, the only truly popular art form is the movies. Most people consider painting a hobby and literature, schoolwork.
There is a definite argument to be made that videogames are becoming an art form put together by artists of different types.
Movies will end up being this esoteric art form, where only singular people will put films out in a small group of theaters.
Makin' records is one art form and playin' live is another. It's like the difference between makin' a movie and doin' theatre.
Jazz is such a living art form. It happens right in the moment. You weave a story by changing certain elements and components.
Like with any good art form, if you can entertain people and make them think, it's an honor. It's just an honor to be a comedian.
For a long time, I believed that a great piece of music on its own could do more to stir the soul than any other single art form.
Comedy is really not like any other art form in that it's very specialized and varied in it's content, but generic in it's title.
If you think about feudal China during times of the emperors, food was a very elevated art form and you had to be really skilled.
I think rap definitely has its place in the art world. I think it is an art form. But, just like any art form, you can misuse it.
It took me a while to get to a place of feeling like fashion was an expression - something I could have fun with and an art form.
I think a craft becomes an art form when the space of possible solutions becomes so huge that engineering can't carry you through.
90% of every art form is garbage - dance and stand-up, painting and music. Focus on the 10% that's good, suck it up, and drive on.
Being an artist is dragging your innermost feelings out, giving a piece of yourself, no matter in which art form, in which medium.
It's not enough for me to cover theater, I have to throw myself around every other art form, and do so thoroughly and relentlessly.
Writing comics and drawing comics is a really very specific art form. It's a lot easier to get it wrong than it is to get it right.
The novel is the first art form that is an honest-to-god commodity. That's what makes it different from both high art and folk art.
I have watched music go from an art form into an industry. And I have watched it stop dead in its tracks because of the digital age.
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.
Songwriting I think, or any art form, the inspiration comes from your personal life or it can be from politics or region you live in.
There's really an art form to putting together a set list that flows evenly and that takes you on a ride and doesn't feel disjointed.
Country music as a genre, as an art form, is just as valid out there in the pantheon of the arts as classical, jazz, ballet, whatever.
Sometimes words are not needed, and the simplicity of expressing yourself through an art form is one of the best ways of communication.
If we're talking about the urban landscape as an advanced, forward-thinking art form, there must be some intellectual thinking involved.
Cinema is very important to me. I derive a lot of strength from this art form, and I believe that it is very impactful socio-politically.
To me, snowboarding is really an art form, and I think every athlete, every snowboarder has her own style, and that makes them stand out.
New Orleans jazz is a complex and embracing art form that began about the same time as the blues and encompassed many of its excellences.
Hip-hop is such a disposable art form from a business standpoint. It never treats its artists as art; it never treats its product as art.
I do feel a commitment to this art form and to my father's teaching, and I think the older I get I'm feeling that more and more strongly.
I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.
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.
I think of fashion as an art form as well as an industrial product - and something that has to be sold well and has to be of high quality.
I was obsessed with it, and then I learned more about professional wrestling and how the beauty that does exist in it is truly an art form.
As I've gotten less righteous, less pedagogic, I have become more loving of the artificiality, the art form, the imitation of life in film.
I want to be known to fans and appreciated as a 'boxer-painter' in regards to speed, footwork, punching power - an art form inside the ring.
For us, an album is the highest art form - an album or a really incredible film. We're musicians, not filmmakers, so this is what we can do.
Photography was inspired by painting, cinema by theatre and photography, I don't believe that any new art form was ever created from scratch.
I was a huge Muppet fan growing up, but that was the extent of my puppet knowledge. I really loved the art form and the whole Henson universe.
Disco deserved a better name, a beautiful name because it was a beautiful art form. It made the consumer beautiful. The consumer was the star.
Film is an amazing art form, but so is life. When your career and your life can work together, and one can support the other, it's just great.
Art, like science, progresses, and to me it's bizarre that a lot of acclaimed and popular and respectable books are not advancing the art form.