Nothing has been left undone by the enemies of freedom. Every art and artifice, every cruelty and outrage has been practiced and perpetrated to destroy the rights of man. In this great struggle, every crime has been rewarded and every virtue has been punished.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
How can educated and sophisticated viewers react so differently to a work of art? Is it just Kulture Klash? No, since most of the time there's no Klash at all. On the occasions when we disagree, it may be because we're looking for different things in dance.
— Robert Gottlieb
Ballet is like any other art form in that we all start out knowing nothing about it.
Nature generally struggles against this treatment for a while, until her powers seem in a great measure exhausted, when she quietly yields to the power of the art.
— Robert Fortune
It seems to me that many writers, by virtue of environments of culture, art and education, slip into writing because of their environments.
— Robert E. Howard
If Art relates itself to an Object, it becomes descriptive, divisionist, literary.
— Robert Delaunay
This communication alone, by the comparison of the antagonisms, rivalries, movements which give birth to decisive moments, permits the evolution of the soul, whereby a man realizes himself on earth. It is impossible to be concerned with anything else in art.
Music was the first art form I ever had.
— Robert David Hall
Everything that is strong in me has gone into my art work.
— Robert Crumb
Forget good for you - art should be good to you.
— Robert Christgau
It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least.
— Robert Browning
The web of life is a beautiful and meaningless dance. The web of life is a process with a moving goal. The web of life is a perfectly finished work of art right where I am sitting now.
— Robert Anton Wilson
There is a lot of snobbery towards pop music, to me and pop in general - it's kind of a despised art form.
— Robbie Williams
'Buncha Losers' comedy is one of those homegrown American art forms, up there with infomercials and Elvis-shaped soap carvings. No other civilization could have invented it. The French took a stab with Sartre's 'No Exit,' but then they had to ruin it with a lesson at the end.
— Rob Sheffield
The term 'celebrity memoir' has gotten such a bad name now, but there used to be a little bit of an art form to it.
— Rob Lowe
Nothing will turn you into more of a 'Star Wars' fan than being on a 'Star Wars' set. When you see how lovingly that world is rendered by the set designers, costume designers, props department, art department, they genuinely build an actual world. That is not an exaggeration. They build a world.
— Riz Ahmed
Art is freedom. If you defend art, you defend freedom.
— Rithy Panh
If people think of public art as something the public decides, it's impossible to make anything of substance.
— Robert Graham
What 'War and Peace' is to the novel and 'Hamlet' is to the theater, Swan Lake' is to ballet - that is, the name which to many people stands for and sums up an art form.
When you grow up being taught to worship, whatever that means, there is an array of body-rich symbols: tears, blood, crucifixion, the stations of the cross, transubstantiation... Faith is a belief in something that is irrational, and so to have faith, there is some correlation there with the belief in the art.
— Robert Gober
Now, the language that had grown up and formed itself on those principles is what one is dealing with, and the problem is to bring a work of art in that medium into another medium formed on different principles and heard and understood in a different way.
— Robert Fitzgerald
Art is competitive.
— Robert Duvall
Impressionism; it is the birth of Light in painting.
I think the problem with the art market and the art scene is that it is its own beast. It thrives and breathes and defecates independently of the artist.
— Robert Del Naja
If you're trying to work the art game, if you're like Andy Warhol or something, then you're in with cake-eaters of society. You want to get in with them and please them and get their money.
That's the thing about music: It's forever. Hopefully, you captured a moment musically that has a timeless quality people will find relevant to their lives at any point. That's the whole idea about what I love about art and music.
— Robert Coppola Schwartzman
My first love is art, and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.
— Robert Carlyle
You hear a lot of writers talk like writing is therapy or some kind of magic art, but it's a business.
— Robert Ben Garant
When art is defined by Damien Hirst and Jeff Koons, you've got a society that's impoverished.
— Robert Adams
When you look at that period when Warhol and the Velvets and the Stones were doing things, it was this intersection of art and music. And then it went away.
— Robbie Robertson
I was a huge Muppet fan growing up, but that was the extent of my puppet knowledge. I really loved the art form and the whole Henson universe.
— Rob McClure
I am a lifelong Moebius geek. The European approach is perfect, the art is beautiful, and the storytelling is fantastic.
— Rob Liefeld
It's interesting that we assign the label 'political' to art that doesn't just fit a mould of status quo. Is 'Downton Abbey' not political? That's political! Every piece of art offers a perspective on the world. And what is politics if not a perspective on the world? 'Downton Abbey' is about class. It's also about race.
For the young generation, when they see that there is a film director from Cambodia to go on to be nominated, for them, a lot can change. I don't know another way to restore our identity if it's not art.
Yes, bad or mediocre ballets can be useful to the dancers and temporarily fun for the audience, but in the long run, the lowering of standards can only erode the art form we all love.
The early giants of modern dance - Isadora Duncan, Ruth St. Denis - barely left traces of their art.
Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.
— Robert Frost
Cinemascope has become synonymous with 'epic,' and absolutely if you're shooting armies and certain kinds of vast landscapes, you do want that panoramic canvas to work on. But if you look at art history there's not a whole lot of epic paintings that are in that aspect ratio.
— Robert Eggers
Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint.
Painting is by nature a luminous language.
I was looking at the work of the New York street artists and then discovering Basquiat and Haring after that and seeing how the contemporary art scene was, and then going back into Warhol and all that was happening in the 60s.
You must thank the gods for art, those of us who have been fortunate enough to stumble onto this means of venting our craziness, our meanness, our towering disgust.
Once people write criticism about something - and even in 1967 I was far from alone - they're assuming it's art, and art is supposed to last.
Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven.
He that desireth to acquire any art or science seeketh first those means by which that art or science is obtained. If we ought to do so in things natural and earthly, how much more then in spiritual?
— Robert Barclay
In The Doors we have both musicians and poets, and both know of each other's art, so we can effect a synthesis.
— Robby Krieger
By the time we got to MGM, and Lions Gate the movie was done there was nothing else to say. It was done. Just as at Universal, it was art by committee.
— Rob Zombie
One part puzzle mixed with one part racer with just a dash of art and music just to blend everything together, 'Dyad' takes you on a fast-paced trip down a tunnel filled with lights and a shifting list of rules to keep your neurons nimble.
— Rob Manuel
The multiculturalism of Britain is one of our greatest strengths in music, literature, and visual art, but the TV and film industry doesn't tap into the multicultural talent pool in the U.K. as much as they do in the U.S.
Art is giving to what you create a soul.
