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
Texas Republican political leaders take perverse pride in how deeply they have cut our state’s education budget. Thousands of teachers have been pulled from classrooms, schools have closed and valuable programs have been canceled. In many places, districts are forced to choose between prekindergarten programs and English, algebra and art. – Wendy Davis
The best teachers, one hopes, don’t shout at their students – because they are skilled at wooing as well as demanding the best efforts of others. For the ancient Greeks and Romans, this wooing was a sufficiently fine art in itself to be the central focus of education. – Tom Chatfield
If age someday grounds my feet and wilts my port de bras, what vestige of the old life will be left? The signs that I was a dancer will gradually fade like stripes on a beach towel. Even my knowledge of the art form, reaped in sweat over decades, could be lost over time. – Sascha Radetsky
Architecture is involved with the world, but at the same time it has a certain autonomy. This autonomy cannot be explained in terms of traditional logic because the most interesting parts of the work are non-verbal. They operate within the terms of the work, like any art. – Thom Mayne
The wonderful thing about theater as an art form is it’s a purely empirical art form. It’s all about what works. And every show, every production, is created anew right from the moment you go into the rehearsal hall. – Terry Teachout
I love playing with makeup. Makeup has become a thing where it’s an art form. It’s not a thing where you use it because you need to feel beautiful or because you don’t like the way you look. – Zendaya
To do art, one thing should always remember – subjects of people in misery have deep meanings. – Zhang Yimou
I have been using polka dots since I was a very young child. Only after that, it seems, have they been used throughout the rest of the art world. – Yayoi Kusama
It is certainly a most tremendous and unprecedented honor and distinction that I have received from Pittsburgh. Let us hope that it is not too late in my case to be of value to American art in something that I may yet possibly do from this encouragement. – Winslow Homer
I do not care to put out any ideas for pictures. They are too valuable and can be appropriated by any art student, defrauding me out of a possible picture. – Winslow Homer
I imagine explaining a work of art to my grandmother in five minutes, and if I can’t explain it in five minutes, then it’s too obtuse or esoteric. – Shea Hembrey
Any excuse to live in New York and do art. Has to be one of the most rewarding experiences in the world. – Tommy Chong
My anxiety level of my own work and what I’m doing and focusing on my art and all of that stuff? That’s fundamental. – Sufjan Stevens
I wanted to start a revolution, using art to build the sort of society I myself envisioned. – Yayoi Kusama
My family runs a little art gallery back in Cornwall, so flashy cars and things like that have never really been particularly interesting to me. – Sam Palladio
The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose. – William Blake
Anything that reflects the human condition back on humans in the entertainment medium is art. – Tucker Max
I began writing early – very, very early… I was already writing short stories for the radio and selling poems to poetry and art festivals; I was involved in school plays; I wrote essays, so there was no definite moment when I said, ‘Now I’m a writer.’ I’ve always been a writer. – Wole Soyinka
Fiction, maybe art in general, is a tentative, uncertain enterprise; it’s not science, it’s an exploration, but you never find much in the way of answers. – Tim O’Brien
I agree that Ruskin has done much harm to counter balance much good in giving people the trick of talking about Art instead of really doing a little of it to enable them to understand. – William H. Hunt
Pablo Picasso, Frank Sinatra, Ernest Hemingway, Mel Gibson, Lou Reed, Norman Mailer, Vanessa Redgrave, Van Morrison – each is distinguished by controversies unrelated to his or her art; by many accounts, some of them are not nice people at all. – Steve Erickson