The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation.
Louise Brooks
GreatArtSoulFaceIsolationBody
I drew a picture on the back of a calendar in pencil. In those days they used to give out free calendars, I had no art paper, so I took whatever else I could.
Joe Shuster
ArtFreePictureBackCalendarOut
You know, a vampire book is not a book to be the vehicle for big themes and stuff, where sometimes when you're dealing with art or the life of Christ or the oeuvre of Shakespeare, you know, it's a little more ambitious.
Christopher Moore
LifeArtBookYouKnowSometimes
When a number of crimes - for instance, burglaries - can be linked to the same offender, police often plot the locations on a map. The art of finding the location of the criminal's home based on the crime sites is a key objective in what is known as geographical profiling.
Daniel Goldstein
HomeArtPoliceKeyFindingMap
An interesting thing happened in 1989, right as I was graduating: the stock market crashed and really changed the landscape of the art world in New York. It made the kind of work I was doing interesting to galleries that wouldn't have normally been interested in it.
Matthew Barney
WorkArtNew YorkWorldInteresting
My go-go dancing was not your typical go-go dancing: I really was doing performance art. I would do dramatic, elaborate lyricals across the bar. I learned a lot, actually, as an artist during that time.
Annaleigh Ashford
TimeArtPerformanceDoingArtist
How content-driven cinema worked so well... Yeah, the shift is definitely happening... It is such a good change, and it is the kind of change I would like to see so that we just go to watch a film and not put them into brackets - that this is an art film or commercial movie.
Rajkummar Rao
ChangeGoodArtCinemaGoKind
Textiles embody all the dimensions of art: color, innovation, talent.
Stanley Marcus
InnovationArtTalentColorEmbody
I always think of my films within the context of where aesthetics meet economics. That's the nature of making art - not being naive about what is possible and getting what you need to tell the story you want to tell.
Ira Sachs
NatureArtEconomicsStoryThink
I went to art school for fine art and then I started doing performance art, and then I started making fun of performance art, and it turned into comedy.
Mary Lynn Rajskub
ArtSchoolFunPerformanceComedy
Jazz vision for me is seeing my art in musical term. It offers me an visual expressions in an ever-changing musical palette.
Barbara Januszkiewicz
VisionArtMeSeeingJazzPalette
I've always thought photography is not so much of an art form but a way of communicating and passing on information.
Don McCullin
ArtThoughtPhotographyInformation
Dancing was my sport when I was younger. So I chose that over everything. And then, I just had to keep going because it became a competitive thing. But I'm not trying to impress anyone anymore. Dancing is more like my art, now.
Heather Morris
ArtKeep GoingTryingNowImpress
Every artist wants his or her work to connect with someone. I think that's why people make art.
Jenova Chen
WorkArtPeopleThinkSomeoneWhy
Surrealism: An archaic term. Formerly an art movement. No longer distinguishable from everyday life.
Brad Holland
LifeArtEverydayMovementLonger
The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.
Walter Benjamin
ArtCriticismNewSocialEnjoyment
Traveling to the Middle East and playing music for people on the street, for soldiers, for people in hospitals, and for people who lost their homes, and seeing people open up through the experience of music really restored my faith in music, in art, and in culture to change things.
Michael Franti
ChangeMusicFaithArtCultureLost
My sister is an artist and an interior designer. She went to high school for art. I went to high school for music.
Maira Kalman
MusicArtSchoolSisterHigh School
That's the thing about music: It's forever. Hopefully, you captured a moment musically that has a timeless quality people will find relevant to their lives at any point. That's the whole idea about what I love about art and music.
Robert Coppola Schwartzman
LoveMusicArtMomentQualityYou
It's high time for the art world to admit that the avant-garde is dead. It was killed by my hero, Andy Warhol, who incorporated into his art all the gaudy commercial imagery of capitalism (like Campbell's soup cans) that most artists had stubbornly scorned.
Camille Paglia
TimeArtHeroWorldSoupCapitalism
Timing has a lot to with art.
LL Cool J
ArtTimingLot
The word 'Playboy' alone doesn't exactly give most women a warm, fuzzy feeling, yet many of the Playboy photos end up in the most praised photo and art magazines and in critically acclaimed photo exhibitions.
Joanna Krupa
WomenAloneArtEndWarmFeeling
My individual power is limited. I want to use my high-profile way to wake people up to take action together to do good things. I can only awake them with my performance art and creativity.
Chen Guangbiao
GoodPowerArtCreativityTogether
The art world can be very intimidating because it's just so vast. You talk to people who are really clued in to all the young artists and coming into it you're never going to be able to catch up immediately, even though there's pressure to.
Daniel Radcliffe
ArtPeopleWorldPressureYouYoung
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