I guess standup is really painting pictures with words - especially for me, as I describe quite fantastical, visual things. My art teacher, Dexter Dalwood, always seemed to think they were linked. We bonded over our love of Vic Reeves.
— Noel Fielding
I bought two sculptures of two baboons called Lord and Lady Muck on an antique piece of furniture from an art exhibition, and it was quite expensive. It was very expensive, actually - way too expensive.
Chefs are artists, and I couldn't be happy with my art if I was forced to use cheap ingredients.
— Nobu Matsuhisa
To me that's what art is about - when you don't really have any control over your desires to do it.
— Noah Taylor
I grew up in the heat of '70s postmodern fiction and post-Godard films, and there was this idea that what mattered was the theory or meta in art.
— Noah Baumbach
Trophies or no trophies, we are all just striving to do some really good art and help people's lives with it.
— No I.D.
I always wanted to do things right and represent myself as somebody that took the art serious and someone that took the business serious also, so I had time to weigh the options and figure it out and do my best to create the situation that was ideal.
— Nipsey Hussle
Each moment calls for a different stylistic essence and a different sense of impact, and mastery of this balance is an art form - a very learnable art form.
— Nina Garcia
Art, well good art at least, takes you to a place you go during the experience of it, and then after you experience it you are different.
— Nile Rodgers
I’ve always been obsessed with the art of transformation.
— Nikita Dragun
I also had a tremendous passion for art and read a lot.
— Nigel Dennis
Art thrives on obstacles. The bigger the obstacle, the better the drama.
— Nicolas Winding Refn
Filmmaking is like any kind of art form. You have to try to figure it out, and you're going to do that by trying.
It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune; but the art of being bored is infinitely more successful.
— Nicolas Chamfort
Before I had my son, I became obsessed by this painting I'd seen in an art gallery. It was a lot of money, but I felt such a rush of adrenaline when I wrote the cheque to buy it. I thought I was going to gaze lovingly at it forever, but after just two weeks, I realised I didn't really like it any more.
— Nicola Walker
You should never feel afraid to become a piece of art. It's exhilarating.
— Nicki Minaj
My brothers are both 6 ft. 5 in., and if you have younger brothers who are bigger than you then you have to learn the ancient martial art of sarcasm.
— Nick Moran
I played football for a long time when I was a kid, and then I went to art college and turned my back on it. Because of that, my toes are mangled; they've been broken. They're like hooves or talons. They're disgusting. I'd never get them out.
I was quite a shy kid, but I was quite funny at school, and I was really into art. In our class, there were two of us who were good at drawing, and my teacher was like, 'He's going to make a wonderful artist one day, and Noel can make everyone laugh.'
The fine art of preparing sushi is something that you watch and learn.
I don't think we have to suffer personally to make great art. If you're prepared and organized, and you know what you're looking for, you can make great art and then go home.
— Noah Hawley
When you do your art, and you may think people don't recognize it or appreciate it, you actually go and try to get better.
The Malayalam audience knows me as an art film actress, and I am fine with that because I know that such films come from the heart. It's difficult to do them, but the satisfaction you get is immense.
— Nithya Menen
I believe that economics is based on scarcity of markets. And it's possible to monetize your art without compromising the integrity of it for commerce.
My mother was a very big inspiration. She loved fashion. I loved art in school, and I was very good at drawing. I could sit at the table forever and just dream up collections and draw.
The industry needs to be run by artists, because we are the only people that care about art.
— Nikki Sixx
I don't want to sound like a retrospective person stuck in the past, but the fact remains that, in my day, everything was in the hands of the driver - the gear changes, the delicate art of clutch control during race starts, managing engine revs during gear changes - everything.
— Niki Lauda
Although all the good arts serve to draw man's mind away from vices and lead it toward better things, this function can be more fully performed by this art, which also provides extraordinary intellectual pleasure.
— Nicolaus Copernicus
I think that art is an act of violence, and the more emotionally engaged you are in a piece of art, the more violent it feels.
Art has the power to influence and to make you react to something that you normally wouldn't concern, worry, or even think about or wouldn't want to talk about.
Acting is like any other art form, in that you have the option to go very big or go very small.
— Nicolas Cage
I'm saving up to buy art. Nothing famous, but every time I'm in a new city I wander into galleries and dream about buying great pieces one day.
— Nicola Formichetti
I've constantly tried new things, even as a child, and have always been obsessed with pink. Now I'm just a little more ladylike and fearless. You should never feel afraid to become a piece of art. It's exhilarating.
I was brought up in a car family, my dad loved cars and I was taught the art of making an Austin 7 operate.
— Nick Mason
I'm involved with this exhibition, which is a collection of Nobby Clarke's photos of the opening night of my own art exhibition.
Making sushi is an art, and experience is everything.
Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth.
— Noam Chomsky
The thing with making your art your business is: It's a business. You can't sit around waiting for the muse, especially when you run a show, and you're in production, and an outline is due, a script is due, and a reshoot is due. No. You look at the calendar, and you go, 'OK. I can write from 4 to 6.' So you write.
Wine gets better with time. So does art.
All these years, I have handpicked my films. It was passion and love for the art that made me do films.
Through eight years, 'How I Met Your Mother' has mastered the art of leading-edge comedy, emotional water-cooler moments, and pop culture catch-phrases.
— Nina Tassler
Art is something that opens up and enhances your emotions and that's what I like to think I'm doing.
Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste.
— Nikki Giovanni
I don't think rap really fits in to 'American Idol' in the sense that I believe rap is an art form in itself more akin to poetry, more akin to drama, if you will.
— Nigel Lythgoe
Art is very much about making your weaknesses your strength.
Polarizing is the greatest achievement in any art form, even in cinema.
The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society.
Picasso said, 'Art is a lie that tells the truth.' What if you just want to tell the truth and not lie about it?
I went to art school in Chicago for a year at Columbia College. I had this whole master plan of getting into sustainable development and green architecture and construction, so I wanted to go to business school and then get my masters in construction and development.
— Nico Tortorella
When I was a teenager, my dad watched my films and told me I could go to art college and study animation. He made me see that I could do this for a living.
— Nick Park
