There were various turning points, but the main one at the beginning was that I was going off to do another degree in the history of art. I would have ended up as some art historian at Sotheby’s or something. – Hugh Grant
We realise that natural aptitudes are not interchangeable, and each person must, of biological or spiritual necessity, practise the art for which he is fitted. – George William Russell
There’s an art to stupid comedy. There’s an art to offensive comedy, and I think the key is it’s just gotta make you laugh. – Hayden Schlossberg
I am honoured to be associated with a brand like Movado. It believes in the art of design and is known for its perfection worldwide. I have strong faith in the pursuit of perfection. I am looking forward to a long association. – Harbhajan Singh
I don’t want to be a didactic voice. I like to ask more questions than I answer, just to get people thinking and to make it safe to access art. – Hannah Gadsby
There is a spell in mediaeval Art which has had power to bewitch some people into trying, or wishing to try, or fancying that they wish to try or making believe to fancy that they wish to try, to bring back the Middle Ages. – Goldwin Smith
They say the average person can’t make a living in art… but if you tell me there’s something I can’t do, that’s what I have to do. – George Sutherland
It’ll be the Internet and piracy that will kill film. There’s a philosophy that the Internet should be free, but the reality is that piracy will destroy the film industry and film as an art form because it’s expensive to make a movie. Maybe you’ll have funky little independent movies, and it’ll go back and then start up again some other way. – Helen Mirren
Humility is becoming a lost art, but it’s not difficult to practice. It means that you realize that others have been involved in your success. – Harvey Mackay
Basically, I viewed any work of art as an imposition of another person’s taste, and saw the individual making this imposition as a kind of dictator. – Henry Flynt
Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man. – Helen Rowland
All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual. – Honore de Balzac
In the United States there has been a kind of a structure in the Modern art world. The New York School was nearly a coherent thing-for a minute. – Howard Hodgkin
Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless. – Honore de Balzac
I always enjoyed art history because, growing up in California, my exposure was limited, and it was a new experience. To learn the history of art opened up certain things to me, made me see. It intrigued me. – Herb Ritts
In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole symbolic attitude, which our eye perceives, which art reproduces, and which becomes for everyone the image of a man who runs. – Henri Bergson
A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds. – Henry Moore
I like art history and art criticism. Leo Steinberg has always been my favorite. He’s very original, very accurate and acute. – Helen Vendler
Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions. – Gregory Bateson
I do see myself as the heir to a vast, great, rich culture of painting – of art in general – which we have lost, but which places obligations on us. – Gerhard Richter
There are some centuries which – apart from everything else – in the art and other disciplines presume to remake everything because they know how to make nothing. – Giacomo Leopardi
There are many museums dedicated to technology, artistic endeavors, music, and that sort of thing. From that perspective, I think games really do have a place as a kind of collaborative art or a synthesis of all these various aspects into a whole, and that, in itself, can be perceived as art. – Hideo Kojima
I think the one that’s going to be the hardest to make into a film is the one that’s probably going to be made into a film, which is ‘The Art of Racing in the Rain.’ I mean, it’s narrated by a dog. How do you do that? But hopefully we’ll get to see. – Garth Stein
When the impulses which stir us to profound emotion are integrated with the medium of expression, every interview of the soul may become art. This is contingent upon mastery of the medium. – Hans Hofmann