My grandmother lived to be 100 years old. Her grandmother was a slave, yet she was a college graduate in the Spellman class of 1917. She taught art for 50 years and she saved her Social Security checks for her children's education.
— Spike Lee
I think if something's emotionally real - and I'm not even talking about in movies or in art, but in life - you can't really argue with that, even if your intellectual mind might know differently.
— Spike Jonze
When I first became captain of the Indian cricket team in 2000, many well-wishers and journalist friends gifted me the classic Mike Brearley book, 'The Art of Captaincy.' I mean no disrespect to the book or Mr, Brearley, who I admire a great deal, but books or team meetings don't make you good captains.
— Sourav Ganguly
At 18 I wanted to study art history in Florence. I think I just fancied myself as Sophia Loren, wearing a foxy dress and walking through a market with a basket bursting full of figs.
— Sophie Dahl
For me, learning is a continuous process and an all-inclusive one - reading a book, learning a musical instrument or learning the martial art called taekwondo. Teach myself something new - that's my prayer.
— Sonu Nigam
It's a dying art to play live anymore and just play raw. Who cares if you make a mistake? That's punk rock. Just go out and go for it and make some noise.
— Sonny Sandoval
Artifice is art.
— Sonia Rykiel
Art reflects society. Cinema doesn't dictate - you portray what the society demands.
— Sonam Kapoor
All of the significant art of today stems from Conceptual art. This includes the art of installation, political, feminist and socially directed art.
— Sol LeWitt
When artists make art, they shouldn't question whether it is permissible to do one thing or another.
I didn't want to save art - I respected the older artists too much to think art needed saving. But I knew it was finished, even though, at that time, I didn't know what I would do.
Buying books was a way anyone could acquire a work of art for very little.
A blind man can make art if what is in his mind can be passed to another mind in some tangible form.
As long as I don't have to compromise my art, that's the most important thing. It doesn't matter if I'm famous or not, it's all about the music.
— Snoh Aalegra
I've realised that there's art in everything we do in London. Suddenly, a photo of two boys sitting on a wall in tracksuits with a dog can go online and be considered a sick photo. That's what we've done to London.
— Skepta
That's what I love about acting and love and drama and art: that humanness we all share.
— Sissy Spacek
I saw Joseph Cornell's lyrical work for the first time at the Museum of Modern Art in the late seventies and have internalized many of his boxes.
— Siri Hustvedt
First of all, what in this world does not revolve around money? But money is a big part of film, unlike a lot of other art forms.
When I did '21 Jump Street,' I felt like I was a part of something great, but on a very large scale. Working with people that genuinely want to make good art or good work or a good film, that's what keeps me going.
— Spencer Boldman
Bangladesh, despite producing big upsets in the past, doesn't have the art of beating big teams consistently.
I was a coat checker, a dishwasher, a waitress, and those were some of the happiest times of my life because I still got to do my writing. You're lucky when you can work and then do your art.
— Sophie B. Hawkins
My dad is Japanese; he was an art director there. My mom is half-English, half-Argentinian. They met in Japan in the '70s. Her parents were diplomats posted there.
— Sonoya Mizuno
Our best teachers do more than impart facts and figures - they inspire and encourage students and instill a true desire to learn. That's a fine art in itself.
— Sonny Perdue
I was really a very ambitious young girl when I started studying drama and performing art.
— Soni Razdan
When I got the script for 'The Art of Seduction,' I realised I'd never been in a comedy, so I decided to experiment. What the character went through could never happen in my own life.
— Son Ye-jin
Conceptual art became the liberating idea that gave the art of the next 40 years its real impetus.
During the '70s I was interested in words and meaning as a way of making art.
Also, since art is a vehicle for the transmission of ideas through form, the reproduction of the form only reinforces the concept. It is the idea that is being reproduced. Anyone who understands the work of art owns it. We all own the Mona Lisa.
The system is the work of art; the visual work of art is the proof of the System. The visual aspect can't be understood without understanding the system. It isn't what it looks like but what it is that is of basic importance.
Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
— Socrates
I don't like hype cluttering art.
— Skrillex
Composing for movies is not an easy job - its a different art altogether, and moreover, I don't want to get involved in too many things at one time and want to concentrate on my shows and albums.
— Sivamani
Film is an amazing art form, but so is life. When your career and your life can work together, and one can support the other, it's just great.
There are no rules in art.
When I went to school, you had to take art, you had to play an instrument. You had to play an instrument. But it's all degraded since then. I do not know what kind of nation we are that is cutting art, music, and gym out of the public-school curriculum.
Cinema brings together people from all walks of life. It connects everybody. It's an art in motion.
— Sowcar Janaki
The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.
— Sophie Swetchine
I have a terrific relationship with Woody and realize it's full of dramatic overtones, but it's really quite simple. It revolves around conversations, film talk, sports talk, books, and art.
— Soon-Yi Previn
I really liked Glasgow. I really liked living there for a year. It's a very fun city, and it has a lot to offer young people who are interested in music and art. It's a very creative city.
I came from an intellectual Parisian family. My father was a watchmaker; my mother was a housewife. We discussed politics, art, sculpture - never fashion.
I was a complete anomaly in this business. I didn't fit into the Hema Malini-Zeenat Aman commercial cinema mould, neither the Shabana Azmi-Smita Patil art cinema mould.
The other great development has been in photography, but that too was influenced by Conceptual art.
Minimal art went nowhere.
The narrative of serial art works more like music than like literature.
Just as the development of earth art and installation art stemmed from the idea of taking art out of the galleries, the basis of my involvement with public art is a continuation of wall drawings.
I was not interested in irony; I wanted to emphasize the primacy of the idea in making art.
Inclusivity is extremely important in any art form.
— Sobhita Dhulipala
Pirate radio is like street art.
Hollywood is a film industry, a film business. I don't approach my career in that way. I see it as 'art,' and I become involved in films that ring my bell.
When I started out in independent films in the early '70s, we did everything for the love of art. It wasn't about money and stardom. That was what we were reacting against. You'd die before you'd be bought.
