Art

Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and thats it. No America, no jazz. Ive seen people try to connect it to other countries, for instance to Africa, but it doesnt have a damn thing to do with Africa. – Art Blakey

Im very manipulative towards directors. My theory is that everyone on the set is directing the film, were all receiving art messages from the universe on how we should do the film. – Jeff Bridges

Im very much into the costuming of any character that I portray and its one of the great things about making movies is its a collaborative art form so you get all these artists who are looking specifically about for this instance your characters costume and what that might tell about your character. – Jeff Bridges

I love doing normal things – movies, shopping, going out with friends, writing, reading, taking hot bubble baths – thats a big one for relaxation. I also love to go to art and history museums. – Christina Aguilera

I dont believe in art. I believe in artists. – Marcel Duchamp

People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when its simply necessary to love. – Claude Monet

The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesnt make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it. – Gertrude Stein

Football is an art, like dancing is an art – but only when its well done does it become an art. – Arsene Wenger

I like science and I love gym. Oh, and I like art, but Im really bad at it. Im just a terrible drawer. I cant draw a circle. Even with a ruler, I cant draw a straight line. – Daniel Radcliffe

I dont watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself. – Stephen Fry

All good criticism should be judged the way art is. You shouldnt read it the way you read history or science. – Leslie Fiedler

Film in the 20th century, its the American art form, like jazz. – Martin Scorsese

I dont think there is such a thing as being too raunchy when it comes to the art form of burlesque. – Christina Aguilera

I dont think art is propaganda it should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. It celebrates humanity instead of manipulating it. – Keith Haring

One of the things youre doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what ways of working feel good, what feels right. – Brian Eno

Ive got tonnes of aboriginal and Native American art, but Id like even more. – Tori Amos

I dont want life to imitate art. I want life to be art. – Ernst Fischer

Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art. – Austin OMalley

The art world can be very intimidating because its just so vast. You talk to people who are really clued in to all the young artists and coming into it youre never going to be able to catch up immediately, even though theres pressure to. – Daniel Radcliffe

Art is the most passionate orgy within mans grasp. – John Donne