I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!
— Victor Hugo
Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.
— Vicki Baum
I am a serious filmmaker, and I see the whole process of filmmaking more as a piece of art.
— Vetrimaaran
I guess tennis is my main art, but fashion is definitely very close.
— Venus Williams
I don't think changing minds is possible with just comedy. It's too much to expect from your own art.
— Varun Grover
Music is an artform, and I always though art was beyond censorship. I thought this was a common view. Apparently, I was wrong.
— Varg Vikernes
Music is science more than art, and it is the main code of the universe.
— Vangelis
I was a screenwriting and studio art major in college, so even though I don't have any training as a floral designer, I have a very particular visual aesthetic.
— Vanessa Diffenbaugh
I'm going to put a museum on my ranch and people keep saying, 'That's a huge idea.' Yeah, it's big, but not bigger than the average big movie. A hundred million dollars in the art world is a substantial amount of cash to do anything. That's maybe a big gallery's total sales for a given year.
— Val Kilmer
It is what makes the reform process an art, not just a science. You have to develop a strategy that tells you what reform measures you should follow and in what sequence.
— Vaclav Klaus
I fundamentally believe that no one can teach you how to write - finding out how to write a story is part of the process of creating a story - but you can really learn through exposure to different writing, to different art forms, to different modes of storytelling, and with mentors who are able to get you to step outside your comfort zone.
— Uzodinma Iweala
Many artists who don't go off to art school come to New York. It's about what you learn when you're here.
— Urs Fischer
The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.
— Ulysses S. Grant
The art of acting is to pitch good. You do the pitching and hope that the other person catches the ball and does some good pitching back to you.
— Tyne Daly
The 'low' quality of many American films, and of much American popular culture, induces many art lovers to support cultural protectionism. Few people wish to see the cultural diversity of the world disappear under a wave of American market dominance.
— Tyler Cowen
My first job in construction paid my way through art school. I was building to pay my bills.
— Ty Pennington
Dance is the most fundamental of all art forms.
— Twyla Tharp
Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.
That's something I can never lose: my love for the art of rap. As I grew older and became more interested in song writing, it just pushed my possibilities further. I always have to have a foot firmly on the floor as a rapper, because that's how I started.
— Vic Mensa
I was an art history major, but never specifically contemporary. I would say where I really stopped were the abstract expressionists in the New York school.
— Vera Wang
I want to be known to fans and appreciated as a 'boxer-painter' in regards to speed, footwork, punching power - an art form inside the ring.
— Vasyl Lomachenko
The word 'star' is misused. A good film will never fail. And if you have become an actor to become a star, then your reason of being in this profession is wrong. It amounts to abusing the art.
— Varun Dhawan
Art should be perceived as subjectively as possible, and if anyone wants to see something in 'Belus' that I had not planned, that is fine.
There are forms of art that I might not like to do myself, but I still have respect for the artists who create it.
— Vanessa Paradis
Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.
— Vance Packard
That's the joy of art - it should be dangerous and challenging but it's just art - it's safe.
Great writing can be done in biography, history, art.
— V. S. Naipaul
What I do, basically, is look at things from different angles. That is what I do on stage comedically, and that is what I do in art. I was always fascinated by the structure of things, why things work this way and not that way. So I like to see how things behave if you change the point of view.
— Ursus Wehrli
A picture is worth a thousand words.
— Unknown
In a democracy, you need to have a strong judicial system. You need freedom of speech, you need art, and you need a free press.
— Tzipi Livni
I didn't want to be the kind of man that my father was. So I've tried, my entire life, to be the complete and utter opposite of that. And it has served not only the art well, but I think the audience well.
— Tyler Perry
I think my passion for cinema really started when I was on the set of 'Mud' and my third film 'Joe.' That's when I really started to fall in love with the art of filmmaking.
— Tye Sheridan
When I was a kid, toe dancing and toe shoes had a meaning in our culture as a serious kind of art.
Art is an investigation.
I don't label films or actors, and labelling means setting boundaries. Why do you want to do that to art?
— Vicky Kaushal
Chicago is complicated and complex and very violent but also very rich with history and tradition and art and culture - it's all these things.
I have a lot of good role models in my family for things off the court - like my older sister, who's a lawyer. I don't like writing papers, but she's helped me a lot. It's nice to have an art and business background because they tie together perfectly.
Comedy as dissent or any art form as dissent is going to be our last safety valve.
Fiction seeks to represent human experience as it is lived and as it reverberates in our hopes, fears, dreams, and memories. So much of our lives are internal. The art of fiction has claimed - more than anything else - this internal ground as its own.
— Varley O'Connor
Burzum is not a political or religious band, or even an anti-religious band. Burzum is music - art if you like - and the interpretation of art lies in the eye of the beholder.
Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.
— Vanessa Mae
Riding a race bike is an art - a thing that you do because you feel something inside.
— Valentino Rossi
It's the first time that I've ever had an art show based on a film, but it's a photography collage.
I'm not a propaganda machine. I tell things how I see them. When I say, for example, that corruption is not the only thing the West should think about when they think about Nigeria, I'm not saying it doesn't exist but that people have the complete wrong focus. There's music, there's art, there's culture.
What is the art world? I never really understood. I started doing this stuff to do what I want to do. Not to be this or that.
Translation is the art of failure.
— Umberto Eco
Smiles come naturally to me, but I started thinking of them as an art form at my command. I studied all the time. I looked at magazines, I'd practice in front of the mirror and I'd ask photographers about the best angles. I can now pull out a smile at will.
— Tyra Banks
I spend all day replying to tweets and reblogging posts and sharing fan art. I think it's the most important thing I can possibly do, to stay involved in the community as a part of the community, not ahead of the community. I'm very much the same level of them in it.
— Tyler Oakley
For me, learning about cinema and the craft and the art of it, through making films with great people, has been such a cool experience.
If you're speaking of love, you really must include the element of uncertainty - and perhaps it's best approached as the art of constant maintenance.