It's true that I had a bucolic, truly peaceful childhood, growing up in a house next to our family's orchard. We had a lot of books and art, but no electricity until I was eight years old. Since then, I have seen a lot of inner-city life, though.
— Virginia Euwer Wolff
I'm mostly into buying art from friends. I like to keep it vague - just whatever I find intriguing.
— Virgil Abloh
Kanye's the best. He really, really is. He's cool. And why we've always gotten along is because we can just sit down and talk about art.
Fashion is kinda a joke. I don't get too bogged down in the clothes. For me, it's one big art project, just a canvas to show that fashion should have a brand which has someone behind it who cares about different contexts. Social things.
I keep it real normal, like I don't try to act like a celebrity, or say that just because I'm on a TV show I can do other types of TV. I take it very seriously and I respect the art of acting.
— Vinny Guadagnino
Cedric Gibbons was the grand cardinal of the art department.
— Vincente Minnelli
We shall seek first to tell the truth rather than to study the subtle art of adjusting it to the circumstances of time and person.
— Vincent McNabb
If you try to go beyond your interests just for the sake of pretensions or wealth, your art becomes less legitimate.
— Vincent D'Onofrio
I'm actually doing a show. from my shed. on the internet. but it won't be music or anything, it's more to do with drinking and smoking. it's an art piece.
— Vince Clarke
Art is always criticized and always an outsider gets the blame.
— Ville Valo
I think most people have creative ideas and have very strange, unorthodox impulses of things that they can do with their lives. I've had many of these over the years, but I decided the more important question was, 'When did I start calling this art?'
— Vik Muniz
It was in Kanpur where I got exposed to the art of filmmaking.
— Vijay Krishna Acharya
When God created you, He went to great lengths to make you exactly the way He wanted you to be. You are His ultimate work of art.
— Victoria Osteen
It's not that I can't find art beautiful. I just don't know what to do, standing there in the gallery. I don't know what to think about. Once I've seen it, I've seen it; that takes about two seconds. I am interested and then immediately bored, immediately.
— Victoria Coren Mitchell
Myself and David, we both love art. We have a lot of respect for Damien Hirst and Julian Schnabel, and we've met them both, and they're very interesting characters. I also have a lot of respect for the working women out there. As you know, it's not easy when you're looking after children and you have a career as well.
— Victoria Beckham
What is extraordinary about contemporary art is the energy - it has our energy. New energy. Pieces hundreds of years old are beautiful from an aesthetic point of view, but without our modern energy.
— Victor Pinchuk
When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door.
— Victor Hugo
I think that, in a digital age, album covers are becoming a lost art.
People that are able to think in terms of concepts and offer us valuable forms of art are very exciting to me.
Music needs a visual element to make it tangible. So, naturally, there's gonna be a synergy between high-level art direction and high-level albums.
Comedy is a live art, and the only way to record a comedy rock album is to do it live. The audience and their laughter is just as much a part of the album sound as our music. No retakes, no room for error.
— Vir Das
I don't know if I hadn't grown up poor, and in the neighborhood I did, if I would have had that much to bring to my art form. I call upon my past with characters.
— Ving Rhames
If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
— Vincent Van Gogh
I've worked with actors before where I was like, this is not working, and then I've seen their work on the screen and I've been like, Wow, that was a really great performance. Because there are a lot of elements with film. It's not like stage. It's not a kind of performance art anymore; it's a highly tuned kind of collaboration - a symphony.
— Vincent Kartheiser
The idea of telling a story in reverse destabilises your ordinary moral reactions. That's one of the points of art - to challenge your preconceptions.
— Vincent Cassel
Filmmaking is such a collaborative piece of art that you can't look to one person - you couldn't look to me, you couldn't say, 'Because Vin's in it, it's this or that...' It's really all of us coming together for that period of time to try and make magic.
— Vin Diesel
You can't just take an image and randomly distort it and call it art - although many people in La Jolla where I come from do precisely that.
— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
Even today, people tell me that the slapstick humour in 'Friends' is the most viewed comedy track on television. Siddique knows the art of mixing slapstick with genuine humour.
— Vijay
What art does is it makes you feel alive and makes you feel like you're connected.
— Viggo Mortensen
By itself, tofu is like wet foam rubber, but you'd no more eat it by itself and expect fine dining than you would stare at a blank canvas and expect to see fine art.
— Victoria Moran
I can't believe that 100% of the people who stand in art galleries looking at art are thinking, 'Well, here I am, looking at art.' They must be having some sort of other, unselfconscious experience.
I don't consider myself as a great painter; I just feel that art is about expressing your emotions and expressing your feelings, and music is the same way; you can see what other people are going through.
— Victoria Azarenka
Art, freedom and creativity will change society faster than politics.
Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.
DJing is like a great tasteful art form.
Art is made in hindsight.
All I do all day is think of ideas and implement them. That's an industry, you know. I'm trying to make art on a commercial scale.
Acting is not rocket science, but it is an art form. What you are doing is illuminating humanity. Or not.
— Viola Davis
I was going to school thinking I was going to do something entirely different, thought acting was just a hobby at that point, met Stanley Kubrick and was like, 'Whoa, this can be an art form, and you can really move people the way you do simply by acting.'
— Vinessa Shaw
It's a bummer interracial love is still such a big deal. To me, it's quite normal. I grew up seeing couples that were interracial. Who cares if it's a black guy and white girl, or an Asian guy and white girl, etc.? Odds are, every combo exists out there somewhere so why not put it on the screen? Shouldn't art imitate life?
— Vincent Rodriguez III
I think that being a producer is business and being an actor is art.
I enjoy going out by myself... always have, always will. I don't have security guards, and, for the most part, I enjoy meeting new people. I see myself as a regular guy who likes playing video games with his nieces and nephews and poker with his family. I don't have an art collection or take exotic vacations. I enjoy being at home.
— Vince Vaughn
I grew up in an artists' community in New York, in a building that was government-subsidised for artists. No one made any money, but they made art for the sake of art.
When I speak of artistic universals, I am not denying the enormous role played by culture. Obviously culture plays a tremendous role, otherwise you wouldn't have different artistic styles - but it doesn't follow that art is completely idiosyncratic and arbitrary, either, or that there are no universal laws.
I was always under the impression that acting is an innate gift. One of the first things I heard them say at Koothu-P-Pattarai was that actors should realise the art of acting through their training.
— Vijay Sethupathi
For nine years I worked to change what was hairdressing then into a geometric art form with color, perm without setting which had never been done before.
— Vidal Sassoon
We feel more and more intensely about the music we make. It's unexpected, and not always what you would think of in Beach House. It's all art in the end. We aren't making records because we have to; it's because it's what we want to express.
— Victoria Legrand
I'm no longer bossy in the honest sense; I've mastered (mistressed) the art of passive-aggression.
For me it's very important to turn Kiev into one of the main centers of contemporary art in the world. There is New York. There's London. And there will be Kiev. Everyone will come and say, 'Wow!'
Contemporary art will help me to modernise our society.
