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Playwriting is an oral art; it's not an art of a writer expecting to be read but a writer expecting to be heard.
I cannot expect even my own art to provide all of the answers, only to hope it keeps asking the right questions.
Rilke said that art can come only out of inner necessity. I write because I must. Or because I cannot not write.
I'm just open to new experiences. I've never really settled down into one art. I like to be nomadic with my art.
When the position is such that neither side will gain by making the first move, it is called temporising ground.
Art is something that nobody laughs at and nobody makes any money out of is the attitude, which I would dispute.
Painters and poets are obliged to exaggerate the proportions of their figures in order to give true perspective.
Painting or poetry is made as one makes love - a total embrace, prudence thrown to the winds, nothing held back.
'Crazy' is a term of art; 'Insane' is a term of law. Remember that, and you will save yourself a lot of trouble.
With the exception of love, friendship and the beauty of Art, I don't see much else that can nurture human life.
Art has always been the raft onto which we climb to save our sanity. I don't see a different purpose for it now.
The sole aim of the arts of scene-designing, costuming, lighting, is to enhance the natural powers of the actor.
...A strange art – music – the most poetic and precise of all the arts, vague as a dream and precise as algebra.
In every artist there is poetry. In every human being there is the poetic element. We know, we feel, we believe.
Listening to his songs she heard nothing but bad news, still she made her mind up to try to get him win or lose.
Art and mass entertainment and propaganda, they can all be plotted on the same graph, but there is a difference.
Pictorial art is relating tones to create beauty - like chords of music - not the faithful copying of the model.
Art is about changing what we see in our everyday lives and representing it in such a way that it gives us hope.
Such shame is not even skin deep. And as to forgetting, surely, you know that is Woman's First and Greatest Art?
My art career often feels less like an art career and more like a career in educating, usually by using my body.
All art is autobiographical - if it's not, it's not going to quicken on-stage, and it's not going to come alive.
Works of Art can only be produc'd in Perfection where the Man is either in Affluence or is Above the Care of it.
Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement... for transfiguration, not for the sake of play.
Theatre takes place all the time - wherever one is - and art simply facilitates persuading one this is the case.
In the right hands, a comic strip attains a beauty and elegance that, really, I would put against any other art.
To me, figure skating is an art form, and that's what I always try to bring in, even to my competitive programs.
But as I see it, the most corrupt art is the sentimental the art of orange blossoms which make pale women swoon.
Isherwood did not so much find himself in Berlin as reinvent himself; Isherwood became a fiction, a work of art.
Autumn seemed to arrive suddenly that year. The morning of the first September was crisp and golden as an apple.
What is desperately needed... is the skepticism and the sense of history that a liberal arts education provides.
Imagination is a good horse to carry you over the ground - not a flying carpet to set you free from probability.
the moods of sadness that come over anyone who takes up art... these dismal moods have very little compensation.
As information becomes our environment, it becomes mandatory to program the environment itself as a work of art.
All art, in spite of the struggles of some critics to prove otherwise, is based on emotion and projects emotion.
A strong work of art really leaves people speechless. They feel a little angry because they don't understand it.
I have so little mastered the art of tranquil living that wherever I go I trail storm clouds of drama around me.
Folk parapsychology, an art and science designed to enable people to make effective use of their psychic talents
Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.
You never really know what the director has got in his mind as far as the scene visually and art direction wise.
The idea of entrepreneurship applies as much in politics, religion, society and the arts as it does in business.
Each man of us is living his own personal work of art, and cannot evade artistic responsibility for his product.
We're able to influence younger generations on design and art. They might not have realized they were an artist.
I guess that storytelling would be for me to keep making art that touches people in a way that nothing else can.
One of the most valuable things any person can learn is the art of using the knowledge and experience of others.
Science is moving closer to weaponry, and Art is moving closer to commercialism. And never the twain shall meet.
It's very hard to find artists in the history of western art who don't make portraiture ideological in some way.
Art is sometimes likened to a mirror... an expression of universal human truth, executed with a degree of skill.
There were periods when the art market got overheated, but there is no reason it should appreciate dramatically.
Architecture approaches nearer than any other art to being irrevocable because it is so difficult to get rid of.
Jazz is an art form that depends on its antecedents, there must be respect for the people that have gone before.