I can't get very excited about a musician who can do Art Tatum because I've got the Art Tatum records. I want to hear him take that and do something ….

I went to a Canadian college for performing arts and then I auditioned for Canadian Idol. That honestly was my golden ticket..

You might say that a creative person is a person who simply has a desire to have something, to add something to the world that's not there yet, and g….

The limner's art may trace the absent feature, And give the eye of distant weeping faith To view the form of its idolatry; But oh! the scenes 'mid wh….

Art and life really are the same, and both can only be about a spiritual journey, a path towards a re-union with a supreme creator, with god, with th….

I think it was Henry Moore who was asked where he got his ideas for his sculptures, and he said something like, "I continue to do as an adult the thi….

San Francisco has long been a leader in the arts, nurturing generations of painters, sculptors, poets, novelists, playwrights, film-makers, and perfo….

I made nepotism an art form, so I get to work with a lot of relatives and they're part of it..

It's a shame because we experienced probably the greatest thing - in art, in pop - we'll ever do. And it would be good to sit around and talk about i….

Artists can color the sky red because they know it's blue. Those of us who aren't artists must color things the way they really are or people might t….

Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing..

What I like about baroque is the reemergence of pre-Christian religion. The art of baroque mixes ancient pre-Christian myths with Christian imagery a….

To be in the 1% you have to do what the 99% won't..

The art of music, rather more daughter than imitator of nature, in her impressive and mysterious language minding and educating us, rouses directly o….

In film, a dancer should always be shot from head to toe, because that way you can see the whole body and that is the art of dancing. Nowadays they s….

Only utopian liberals could be surprised that the Nazis were art connoisseurs..

Ah, but is it not the mind that is the real grace of Homo sapiens? All the things to think about! All the things to read and appreciate! All the arts….

I think musicals are a lowbrow, populist art form. And I don't mean lowbrow in a condescending way at all - they are designed to create delight, wond….

In my view, madness is a place. You go. You come back. And I think we all take turns being the mental patient. Without a touch of crazy, literature c….

Bea says that the art of reading is slowly dying, that it's an intimate ritual, that a book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry ins….

One is not really a photographer until preoccupation with learning has been outgrown and the camera in his hands is an extension of himself. This is ….