Quotes About All Art Forms

#1. She believed photography to be the greatest of all art forms because it was simultaneously junk food and gourmet cuisine, because you could snap dozens of pictures in a couple of hours, then spend dozens of hours perfecting just a couple of them.

Tommy Wallach

#2. For me, it's important that a movie is the congregate of all art forms, from writing to art composition to music to performing. Trying to keep a balance of all those is what I think a director's job is.

Mick Garris

#3. Dance is the most fundamental of all art forms.

Twyla Tharp

#4. I have trouble with modern art. But in general, all art forms fascinate me - art is the way human beings express what we can't say in words.

Andrea Bocelli

#5. All art forms employ some means through which images become real.

Elliot W. Eisner

#6. Poetry is one of the oldest of all art forms, and one of its powers for shamans and tribal leaders was the mnemonic.

Felix Dennis

#7. I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.

Thornton Wilder

#8. I feel the theatre is the most unique one of all [the arts] for collaboration. I feel very fortunate to be in a field where I really do get to have long conversations with the visual artists, the actors, the musicians. It's all art forms rolled into one and I feel very fortunate to be a part of it.

Susan Stroman

#9. I regard the theater as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being. This supremacy of the theater derives from the fact that it is always "now" on the stage.

Thornton Wilder

#10. Like all art forms, film is a media as powerful as weapons of mass destruction; the only difference is that war destroys and film inspires.

Nicolas Winding Refn

#11. Ere long the most valuable of all arts will be the art of deriving a comfortable subsistence from the smallest area of soil. No community where every member possesses the art can ever be the victim of oppression in any of its forms.

Abraham Lincoln

#12. A liberal education forms ... a single body. Those, therefore, who from tender years receive instruction in the various forms of learning, recognize the same stamp on all the arts, and an intercourse between all studies, and so they more readily comprehend them all.

Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

#13. Wherever there is degeneration and apathy, there also is sexual perversion, cold depravity, miscarriage, premature old age, grumbling youth, there is a decline in the arts, indifference to science, and injustice in all its forms.

Anton Chekhov

#14. One meets the cat in nearly all forms of art ... curiously enough she is not a conspicuous figure in Roman or Greek art.

Carl Van Vechten

#15. What is needed in the theater, in fact for all our art forms, is a vibrant critical tradition.

F. Sionil Jose

#16. All different forms of human expression, art, science, are going to become expanded, by expanding our intelligence.

Ray Kurzweil

#17. By the time I was a teenager, I knew I wanted to be an artist. I was a born draftsman and liked all forms of art, so I just knew that's what I wanted to do.

Frank Frazetta

#18. Throughout the history of art it has been art itself - in all its forms - that has inspired art ... today's photographs are so geared to life that one can learn more from them than from life itself.

Van Deren Coke

#19. One finds life through conquering the fear of death within one's mind. Empty the mind of all forms of attachment, make a go-for-broke charge and conquer the opponent with one decisive slash.

Takenaka Shigekata

#20. If you think of modern art like sex in all its forms - heterosexual, bisexual, homosexual, multipartnered, bestial, whatever, with absolutely no holds barred and with everything available and permissible - that would be modern art.

Eve Arnold

#21. Stendhal wrote that music was the highest form of art and that all the other forms really wanted to be music. This was of course a Platonic idea, all the other art forms depict something else, music is the only one that is something in itself, it was absolutely incomparable.

Karl Ove Knausgard

#22. If you seek just a little truth, as most, you should not ignore abstract forms, the basis from which all short-lived experiences we call reality springs.

Eugene J. Martin

#23. America does four things better than any other country in the world: rock music, movies, software and high-speed pizza delivery. All of these are sacred American art forms.

Courtney Love

#24. Dumbing down takes many forms: art that is good for you, museums that flatter you, universities that increase your self-esteem. Culture, after all, is really about you.

Denis Dutton

#25. All the new media are art forms which have the power of imposing, like poetry, their own assumptions.

Marshall McLuhan

#26. All great art is revolutionary because it touches upon the reality of man and questions the reality of the various transitory forms of human society.

Eric Hoffer

#27. The Holy Spirit speaks many languages; among them the languages of art in all its forms.

Frank Griswold

#28. He can be so appreciative of all forms of art, but so matter-of-fact and unemotional about it.

Dodie Smith

#29. Sound as medium has an incredible elasticity. So, of course, it is tempting for artists of other fields to try something with sounds. Why not? We are living in the age when there is no limit in gathering all forms of art and music to mix it together if you so desire.

Yoko Ono

#30. Moral beauty is the basis of all true beauty. This foundation is somewhat covered and veiled in nature. Art brings it out, and gives it more transparent forms. It is here that art, when it knows well its power and resources, engages in a struggle with nature in which it may have the advantage.

Victor Cousin

#31. There is always a struggle, a striving for something bigger than yourself in all forms of art. And even if you don't achieve greatness, even if you fail, which we all must, everything you do in your work is somehow connected with your attitude toward life ...

Rex Harrison

#32. Prose is an art form, movies and acting in general are art forms, so is music, painting, graphics, sculpture, and so on. Some might even consider classic games like chess to be an art form. Video games use elements of all of these to create something new. Why wouldn't video games be an art form?

Sam Lake

#33. Directing is the ultimate way to bring together all the art forms I've been involved with over the years.

Xander Berkeley

#34. When one has reached maturity in the art, one will have a formless form. It is like ice dissolving in water. When one has no form, one can be all forms; when one has no style, he can fit in with any style.

Bruce Lee

#35. The forms of art are inexhaustible; but all lead by the same road of aesthetic emotion to the same world of aesthetic ecstasy.

Clive Bell

#36. The first forms of writing emerged not for art, literature, or love, not for spiritual or liturgical purposes, but for business - all literature could be said to originate from sales receipts (sorry).

Daniel J. Levitin

#37. I believe in the city as a natural human environment, but we must humanize it. It's art that will re-define public space in the 21st Century. We can make our cities diverse, inspirational places by putting art, dance and performance in all its forms into the matrix of street life.

Antony Gormley

#38. First of all, what in this world does not revolve around money? But money is a big part of film, unlike a lot of other art forms.

Spike Lee

#39. All forms of madness, bizarre habits, awkwardness in society, general clumsiness, are justified in the person who creates good art.

Roman Payne

#40. Dogma, static positions, consonance - all these are obstacles to catching the disease of art, at least in its more complex forms.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

#41. Romantic fiction is the only purely feminine art form. All other art forms were shaped and are dominated by men.

Charlotte Lamb

#42. I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.

Walt Whitman

#43. Learning to trust our intuition is an art form, and like all other art forms, it takes practice to perfect.

Shakti Gawain

#44. No doubt, it is useful for an artist to know all the forms of art which have preceded or which accompany his. That is a sign of strength if it is a question of looking for a stimulus or recognizing mistakes he must avoid.

Pablo Picasso

#45. We all have an aggressive dedication to the narrative arts - comics, film, electronic gaming, and more. We spend much of our time and effort exploring those forms and have an enormous investment in the arts. We're all part of the same brotherhood as far as I'm concerned.

Jim Steranko

#46. Art takes different forms ... But it represents something that is basic in all of us-our history.

George Clooney

#47. All forms of art are consciousness expanders, and I am convinced that they will take us further, and more consciously, than drugs.

Madeleine L'Engle

#48. One of the things I love about opera is that it's the combination of all the art forms, and certainly the world of fashion is a big deal in it.

Joyce DiDonato

#49. All creative art is magic , is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising, for the edification of mankind , pinned down by the conditions of its existence to the earnest consideration of the most insignificant tides of reality .

Joseph Conrad

#50. Sometimes magnificent visual art takes root in the humblest of soils. Advertisements painted on old barns, tattoos, fruit crate labels, hot rod embellishments - all these media and many other non-galleried forms have hosted and fostered esthetic delights that satisfy any rigorous definition of art.

Paul Di Filippo

#51. Love is strange. It comes in different forms. All of them are from the same root, and that's how your love grows - from that root.

Art Hochberg

#52. Sketching is the breath of art: it is the most refreshing of all the more impulsive forms of creative self-expression and, as such, it should be as free, and happy, as a song in the bath.

Mervyn Levy

#53. I listen to music all the time. I write while listening to music. And I tell myself that the music nourishes the art forms that I do master and domesticate, and have authority over.

Jonathan Lethem

#54. Producing perfection from imperfection is, after all, the highest of art forms.

Frank Herbert

#55. Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love, and of thought, which, in the coarse or centuries, have enabled man to be less enslaved

Andre Malraux

#56. Unlike all the other art forms, film is able to seize and render the passage of time, to stop it, almost to possess it in infinity. I'd say that film is the sculpting of time.

Andrei Tarkovsky

#57. The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Paul Klee

#58. I don't see any boundaries between any of the art forms. I think they all inter-relate completely.

David Bowie

#59. Creativity in all forms of life, from arts to business to domestic situations, depends on our ability to recognize and explore gaps

Itay Talgam