I just kind of figured that the marine biology would be a career, and the art would be something I did for my own self-expression.
— Stephen Hillenburg
I was always interested in the ocean and also in art. I had to figure out how to put the two together, but painting fish sounded boring.
It is not that Shakespeare's art is in technicolor and fancy, and that real life is black and white and tedious. The life that Shakespeare was living was the only life he had, and he had to use it to create what he was doing.
— Stephen Greenblatt
In Japanese art, space assumed a dominant role and its position was strengthened by Zen concepts.
— Stephen Gardiner
I don't watch TV. I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
— Stephen Fry
I painted with my husband a portrait of a naked Serge Gainsbourg draped with a French flag, and it hangs in our bedroom. I love gritty and dark art like what the German couple Herakut does.
— Stephanie Szostak
'Monday Night Raw' has been a huge part of my life, and when you think about it, I mean, life imitated art. That is how I met my husband.
— Stephanie McMahon
When I got into the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, a doctor told me to give up the course as I'd be totally deaf within a couple of years. But I refused to give in.
— Stephanie Beacham
The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.
— Stendhal
I was brought up in a way that was based purely on the senses. Everything in my upbringing was a reaction to growing up on an organic farm or to the emotions of animal cruelty, as well as the visuals of my mum's and my father's art - he was also an art collector.
— Stella McCartney
Never can the innate power of a work be hidden or locked away. A work of art can be forgotten by time; it can be forbidden and rejected but the elemental will always prevail over the ephemeral.
— Stefan Zweig
Owners of valuable works of art don't give to institutions that don't provide good air conditioning and have good shows.
— Stanley Marcus
There are few words in the music business or in art that I'll say people or some writers are overgenerous with words like 'legend' or 'genius', 'he's a pioneer' and all of that.
— Stanley Clarke
Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Poetry is a totally different art than film.
— Stan Brakhage
Fashion, for me, is anything that's aesthetic and beautiful. Art, food, film. It's something that I appreciate and really like.
— St. Vincent
If we know the divine art of concentration, if we know the divine art of meditation, if we know the divine art of contemplation, easily and consciously we can unite the inner world and the outer world.
— Sri Chinmoy
I've always been interested in art and making things, but I chose not to go to art school because I thought I needed to do something else. Art was a tough way to make a living.
I studied natural resources planning and thought I could get a job at some marine park. But I was great at art and so-so at marine biology. It's funny how the two eventually came together.
Mum and Dad always wanted me to do whatever I was happy doing. I nearly went to art college at 16, but decided to do a BTEC in performing arts.
— Stephen Graham
When I moved to Los Angeles, I wrote spec screenplays. I was really poor, and I thought I was just gonna do this for a while to make a little money so I could write novels. I thought movies were a second-class art form. I condescended to it - I didn't know enough to know it was really gonna be hard.
— Stephen Gaghan
I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
We can use films and art to express what is happening around all of us.
— Stephanie Sigman
Professional wresting is like performance art. It truly is. You're taking the crowd on a ride, on an emotional roller coaster.
Every model is a living sculpture - art in-vivo.
— Stephane Rolland
Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.
— Stella Adler
Life imitates art and back around.
— Statik Selektah
Art consists of reshaping life, but it does not create life nor cause life.
— Stanley Kubrick
You can disseminate your art, and it's all such easy access now. The upside to it is that more people are creating than ever before.
I spent much of my later childhood and adolescence very, very involved and interested in art, and particularly in animated movies.
— Stanislav Grof
Art is a sense of magic.
When I was a teenager, I never knew anything about art. I think in South Africa at that stage, no one was really exposed to it. There were no museums that had great artists in them.
— St. Lucia
Comedy was something I picked up trying to perfect my art through spoken word. I got on YouTube just to show off my poetry, and then people thought I was funny, so I ran with it.
— Spoken Reasons
I never imagined that I'd end up in animation, but marine biology and art collided, and here we are!
In the '70s, as a kid, someone took me to a Tournee of Animation festival at the L.A. County Museum of Art.
Human requirements are the inspiration for art.
I didn't get a Bachelor's degree - I got a Bachelor's of Fine Arts, which means I didn't have to take humanities, math, and stuff like that. I think I had to take Art History, which I failed a few times.
— Stephen Furst
I pretty much lived movie to movie in my younger years because I loved spending money, and I didn't really have a concept of 'assets,' but as I got a little older, I bought art.
— Stephen Dorff
I enjoy talking to people about what I do - about films, music, directors, and art. It's very strange, having to talk about yourself.
Trump made his fortune manipulating tax laws and stiffing small businessmen, creating a few well-paying jobs along the way. Vulnerable people looking to master 'the art of the deal' learned the hard way that Trump held all the cards.
— Stephanie Coontz
The wonderful thing about a book is that you have a canvas that is 300 pages wide, and it's all free space. You can make a piece of art as big as you want and whatever shape you want.
— Stephan Pastis
Norway is a small country, about half the size of Sweden, but it has a very good film climate because they have municipal cinemas, so even in the smallest towns you have a cinema that shows art house films from all over the world.
— Stellan Skarsgard
What happens when an art form becomes ambiguous, I think, is that the standards are lowered. You can say anything is jazz. So I think it's important to reflect on what made jazz so special.
— Stefon Harris
Textiles embody all the dimensions of art: color, innovation, talent.
The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle.
There's an art to asking questions. Briefings are valuable but normally communicate primarily what the subordinate leader wants you to know, and often the picture they provide is incomplete.
— Stanley A. McChrystal
As far as playing jazz, no other art form, other than conversation, can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction.
— Stan Getz
In each medium - popular music, literature, and visual art, respectively - the woman has broken form, shed a skin, with each phase of her career, whereas the man has returned to ever-deepening iterations of the sound or sentence or imagery with which he began.
— Stacey D'Erasmo
Some of our best writers are self taught. Screenwriting is a combo of craft and art. The craft part can be taught, about how to be visual and economical with scenes. However, finally it’s the individuality of the writer that will come into play.
— Sriram Raghavan
