There's an art to being a good actor, there's an art to being a celebrity, and there's an art to longevity.
— Rocky Carroll
I'm a firm believer that actors take to work who they aren't at home. People show their other self in their art or in their work.
— Robin Tunney
The vast masterpieces of art, business, science, and humanity were not constructed by practical people.
— Robin S. Sharma
Literary critics, however, frequently suffer from a curious belief that every author longs to extend the boundaries of literary art, wants to explore new dimensions of the human spirit, and if he doesn't, he should be ashamed of himself.
— Robertson Davies
Florence and art is something that is part of my life and is part of myself.
— Roberto Cavalli
A certain rough-around-the-edges improvisational looseness - a sense of something coming together before your eyes, or not quite - may be one of the things that distinguishes performance art from theater.
— Roberta Smith
When we look back at the Mayans or ancient Egypt, we look at their art.
— Robert Wilson
You've gotta be careful because art is really important to most people, and you wanna respect that as much as possible. So I live by that rule.
— Robert Trujillo
Most of the appearance of mirth in the world is not mirth, it is art. The wounded spirit is not seen, but walks under a disguise.
— Robert South
Objects in a park suggest static repose rather than any ongoing dialectic. Parks are finished landscapes for finished art .
— Robert Smithson
A vacant white room with lights is still a submission to the neutral. Works of art seen in such spaces seem to be going through a kind of esthetic convalescence.
Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition, rather than asking an artist to set his limits.
To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.
— Robert Schumann
What I love about new technology is that it really pushes the art. It really pushes it in a way that you can't imagine until you come up with the idea. It's idea-based. You can do anything.
— Robert Rodriguez
I had just arrived in New York from California. I was nineteen years old and excited beyond belief. I was an art student and an acting student and behaved as most young actors did - meaning that there was no such thing as a good actor, 'cause you yourself hadn't shown up yet.
— Robert Redford
The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history.
— Robert Rauschenberg
I think art is not an ornament or refinement at the fringes of human intelligence, I think it's at the center. It's at the core.
— Robert Pinsky
Theater is such a collaborative art. Hollywood is a competitive sport.
There's an audience for all kinds of great art.
— Robin Thicke
Films go into vaults, art into museums, and music into halls of fame. Most fashion is worn for a few seasons and off-loaded into the recycling bin or, worse, some landfill.
— Robin Givhan
The drama may be called that part of theatrical art which lends itself most readily to intellectual discussion: what is left is theater.
But every single damn thing matters! Only we don't realize. We just tell ourselves that art runs on one track and life, our lives, on another, and we don't realize that's a lie.
— Roberto Bolano
Working with actors who are directors is magnificent. Because they understand the art form intimately, and they know exactly how everything works.
— Robert Zemeckis
By giving the leadership to the private sector in a capitalistic society, we're going to measure the value of art by how many products we can sell.
As a director, the biggest job is to discern the imperfections in emotional tone and then view it in the global picture of what you're trying to do, if that makes sense. It's a rhythm, like music is a rhythm or composition and art is a rhythm. Dialogue is a rhythm as well.
— Robert Stromberg
Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues.
I am for an art that takes into account the direct effect of the elements as they exist from day to day apart from representation.
A work of art when placed in a gallery loses its charge, and becomes a portable object or surface disengaged from the outside world.
Mendelssohn I consider the first musician of the day; I doff my hat to him as my superior. He plays with everything, especially with the grouping of the instruments in the orchestra, but with such ease, delicacy and art, with such mastery throughout.
I collect a lot of art.
As income from work has become more concentrated in America, the super rich have invested in businesses, real estate, art, and other assets. The income from these assets is now concentrating even faster than income from work.
— Robert Reich
An empty canvas is full.
Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.
— Robert Quillen
If what you want to do is make good art, decide what's good and try to imitate it.
Art must unquestionably have a social value; that is, as a potential means of communication it must be addressed, and in comprehensible terms, to the understanding of mankind.
— Rockwell Kent
Primes seem to me to be these unarbitrary, unique, fated things. It cannot be coincidence that the mythical numbers of storytelling like 3, 7, and 13 are random. The lower-end primes have incredible resonance in fiction and art.
— Robin Sloan
I think that if someone told me I could have been a visual artist, I might have been a visual artist instead. And if I'd known I could have done art history, I would have done that. But I just didn't know.
— Robin Coste Lewis
I would like the people that buy my clothes to understand that for me it's one small piece of art.
You never know when contemporary art is going to insinuate itself into a normally art-free zone.
You just have to do your art. Nothing can stop you.
Take a martial art that you enjoy. Don't worry about the end result; just enjoy getting up and going to training. And there is no right martial art to do. They are all good.
— Robert Whittaker
Something happened when I was in elementary school. A Disney artist named Bruce McIntyre retired, and he had done drawings for 'Pinocchio' and 'Snow White' that was just classic stuff. He moved to the town I grew up in, Carlsbad, and he became a part-time art teacher at our elementary school.
Art history is less explosive than the rest of history, so it sinks faster into the pulverized regions of time.
Art's development should be dialectical and not metaphysical.
Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.
Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.
I always wanted to be a stay-at-home dad making art, making movies.
It's an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things reductive to the soul.
You begin with the possibilities of the material.
For an American, there's no automatic place where people love the art of poetry. There's not a social class that considers poetry its property the way in some countries there's a snob value to the art.
