Artform Quotes & Sayings

I think that film is still an artform and it doesn't really matter if you're using a digital camera or a film camera. — Vilmos Zsigmond

Music is a beautiful thing to listen to. It is not a thing to preach to others about, it's not a cause. It is what it is-and that's a beautiful artform. — Synyster Gates

It's never going to be very mainstream. One reason is that poetry requires concentration, both on the part of the writer and the reader. But it's kind of unkillable, poetry. It's our most ancient artform and I think it's more relevant today than ever, because it's one person saying what they really believe. — Simon Armitage

Look: You're not gonna become a millionaire doing this, but that was never the point. And I think a lot of people in the indie film business kind of took their eye off of that. — Edward Burns

It costs a great deal of money to do a musical, and the more money involved, the more big business influences the artform. — Hal Price

Political cartoons are the ass-end of the artform — Ivan Brunetti

The final true artform in what we're talking about is the goal itself. And for us to try and stop that from happening, we're kind of the anti-art. — Kasey Keller

We don't get what we need. We get what we search for. — Jim Rohn

Hip hop is expression..our roots and culture..Its your duty to contribute uniqueness to this artform. Desire of bringing somethin new, improved, witty and soul touching is what bein an m.c. is all about. I wanted my intelligence to be heard in my lyrics..I wanted the pain to be felt ... and the happiness i encountered. Bein an m.c. takes originality, style, imagination, delivery, intelligence and presence. — Larry Bakersfield

Men walk through tragedy, quietly, calm and precise on the outside, tearing themselves to shreds inside. — Steven Herrick

Motion pictures are the art form of the 20th century, and one of the reasons is the fact that films are a slightly corrupted artform. They fit this century - they combine Art and business! — Roger Corman

Screenwriting is not an artform, it is a punishment from God. — Fran Lebowitz

I hope that film is going to stay as an artform and that people won't forget that there are good movies also to be made. — Vilmos Zsigmond

John Doyle just knows how to feed actors, and what comes out of us, good, bad, right, wrong, doesn't matter. There's no fear or censure. He opens up the creative goo and all of the actor vessel stuff. He knows how to do it. It's just incredible. — Patti LuPone

Decisiveness is the number one quality of a dynamic leader; his ability to communicate a decision with passion and integrity is an art form. — Farshad Asl

The true artform is being a human being. — Herbie Hancock

I've turned arrogance into an artform, where it's so absurd that it becomes comedy. But I've never done anything to hurt anybody or steal from anyone. — John Lydon

September felt panic burn through her like gasoline. Why couldn't he understand her? But I didn't [choose]! I have hardly had a chance to breathe since I got here and it's always like that in Fairyland. Everything is always happening and all at once. And I am growing up, Saturday! I am growing up and I have read books, so many books, and I know that growing up means you can't keep going to Fairyland the way you did when you were a child! Something happens to you and suddenly you have to keep a straight face and a straight line and I am afraid! I want something grand and I don't want to know what it is before it happens! — Catherynne M Valente

Old Scully, who according to Jennifer, hadn't the imagination to think the worst. Something she said once, as though neurosis was an artform. — Tim Winton

Our understanding, great as it sometimes seems, can be nothing but the wide-eyed wonder of the child when measured against omniscience. — Henry Eyring

There's a need to keep the history of an artform going, parallel with the new work that's being done. — Hal Price

Worry is the darkroom in which negatives can develop. — Wanda E. Brunstetter

Nothing should be an issue when it comes to sexuality in the first place. Music is the one artform where people feel comfortable coming out. — Elton John

The power of the artform is stronger than stone, the poet says, and chooses the sonnet, a form concerned with argument and persuasion, to say so. This sonnet, he says, will last longer than any gravestone-and you'll be made shinier, brighter, by it. In this form it will-and therefore you will-avoid destruction by war, history, time generally; it'll even keep you alive after death; in fact it'll form a place for you to live, not die, where you'll be seen in the eyes of and the context of this love right to the end of time. — Ali Smith

Self-publishing in comics is core to the whole artform. There is no scarlet letter in comics as there still is, to some degree, in prose. As no publisher for a long time would publish serious work in comics, the only way a lot of it came out was because of self-publishing. Many of the greatest works of the medium are self-published. — Kieron Gillen