Best Art Form Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“I think a lot of people, when they write a song, they put it on a pedestal - and it shouldn't be. Music should not be that serious, it should not be treated as such a high art form - because a lot of the time, it's not.”

“Planning a party is my art form; some people paint, others write music, I create fabulous events.”

“Standup is a craft and a community and an art form.”

“It's nice to be able to make a room full of people laugh, and there is a lot of merit to stand-up as an art form.”

“It is a responsibility of an actor, artist to make sure to add justice to the art form.”

“I want to take this art form to a whole new level in India so that kids say that they want to become dancers when they grow up.”

“Make-up are the first people the actors go to on set every day - they see you at your most vulnerable. Then they paint the character on you, they're integral to that transformation. It's such an intimate art form that you develop a really close relationship with your make-up artist.”

“I am dedicated to dancing, and I want to help spread this art form.”

“This medium of stop-motion, it can be much more than it's been kind of defined as - it's not just a creaky and anachronistic way of making films, it actually is a very vital art form that can do wonderful things if put in the right hands.”

“I think trolling is a sort of art form, a bit of a craft.”

“My work or art form should represent the kind of world view I believe in.”

“I really respect those guys that get $250,000 for punching up scripts, because it's an art form.”

“In my early career I was sort of anti-drag. I said, 'Drag is dumb and boring, and I want to be an effing weirdo and go crazy and rebel.' But now it's like I've come to respect and understand how deep and traditional drag as an art form is.”

“Songwriting I think, or any art form, the inspiration comes from your personal life or it can be from politics or region you live in.”

“I grew up listening to country music. I got into traditional stuff later, but I listened to the commercial stuff of the '90s, especially the women who were so strong, like Mary Chapin Carpenter and Kathy Mattea. It's a great art form.”

“Country music as a genre, as an art form, is just as valid out there in the pantheon of the arts as classical, jazz, ballet, whatever.”

“Bengaluru and art are synonymous to me. People here pursue an art form and make their living out of it - not many cities can boast that. Art in Bengaluru is thriving.”

“Just like music, I consider wrestling to be an art form, and I have a vision of what that art should look like.”

“We've gotten quite creative with our use of explosives... It's almost like an art form, rather than just blowing crap up.”

“Inclusivity is extremely important in any art form.”

“Across generations, the torch-bearers of Carnatic music have mastered the art form of connection.”

“I say this to young actors: You don't get into this because you think you're average. You get into this because you think, 'I'm good.' It's an art form, and I'm an artist. But as an artist, you know there's not a soul in the world that's going to believe in you other than yourself.”

“Movies are not an art form where you get to kind of sit in your art gallery and paint, you know? You don't do that. You're spending a lot of somebody else's money.”

“I hit the road with a bunch of drag queens every year, sometimes two times a year. Again, as such a fan of drag, it's the art form that excites me and the longform presentation that they do. So it's super exciting to be with them, doing what they love to do and doing it well.”

“I love to watch people dance. It is the most fantastic skill and art form that anybody can have.”

“Makeup is an art form for me. It's a form of expression, and it's such a cool way to get my creative juices flowing.”

“Acting was a hobby for me when I started out, or maybe it was because there weren't a lot of examples of me when I found an interest in this art form.”

“Since I was a kid, I was inspired by fashion and its evolution as an art form.”

“People should genuinely care about stand-up. I'm not doing this just so I can do x, y, and z on TV. It's an art form, not just a vehicle to get into making documentaries.”

“I see clothes as an art form, and also a statement: no matter how vociferously people protest that they don't care what they wear, they sort of have to.”

“Once you appreciate an art form, you're open to everything.”

“Just because somebody works in miniature does not diminish or invalidate their contributions to the art form compared to someone who works in live action.”

“I do feel a commitment to this art form and to my father's teachings, and the older I am getting, the more I am feeling it.”

“It used to be considered an art form to win a tournament without having to shove all your chips in the middle.”

“I just write what I write, produce the music I produce and try to give myself a chance to stay true to the art form. If you try to rein in an art form, it can be hurtful to what you are making.”

“Science fiction to me is the ultimate art form, because it speculates on bodies and worlds that don't exist.”

“Nobody can figure out why it does what it does to human beings. But there is no other art form greater than music.”

“I think singing is such an important and incredible art form and it is quite undervalued at times.”

“Earlier in our country, rapping was not considered as a proper art form, as it is not a song. But now, incorporation of rap in Bollywood songs, is giving rappers a chance to show their talent and it is coming to the mainstream.”

“I love doing my podcast, but it's not my art form. I don't have to work on it. It's off the cuff.”

“The history of country music is as important as any other art form.”

“In my opinion nobody owns the patent on the art form of professional wrestling and the way it does its business.”

“If you think about feudal China during times of the emperors, food was a very elevated art form and you had to be really skilled.”

“Every art form has its own beauty, but blending it with other forms in separate ways is okay.”

“It's kind of a lost art form, the musical, in a way, so when 'La La Land' came around, I couldn't believe my luck. I just felt like I needed someone to keep on pinching me 'cause not only was it a chance to make a musical but to work with Damien Chazelle, Emma Stone, and Ryan Gosling.”

“I have a great amount of respect for what a manicurist does - now, when I go and get my own nails done at a nail salon, I have a lot of respect for what they're doing. Especially any kind of intricate work that they're doing is... it's a real art form.”

“Cinema is very important to me. I derive a lot of strength from this art form, and I believe that it is very impactful socio-politically.”

“I'm dedicating myself to an art form that takes a lifetime to master.”

“I have watched music go from an art form into an industry. And I have watched it stop dead in its tracks because of the digital age.”

“Film is not just about the art form but also how it fares at the box office.”

“Cinema is a form of art, and like every other art form, cinema also needs freedom of expression.”

“I used the second year of my MFA program to write a young adult novel and began pursuing picture books as well. I loved the economy of this art form, choosing, with pristine attention, the exact right words to tell the exact right story.”

“I think it's impossible for hip-hop to be a dying art form.”

“I think making electronic music isn't much different from writing a book or painting a picture or making a film. It's a creative process, and it's an art form.”

“People are really seeing that drag is an art form, that it's so much more than self-expression.”

“Wrestling and kickboxing, like martial arts, combine a handful of skills. They're really an art form.”

“Drag will always be a dynamic and powerful art form, and it is my duty now to honor the artists who have come before me while continuing to pioneer my own path and history by being open to growth and change as a human and a drag superstar.”

“I like that talented chefs are able to keep coming up with new ways of preparing food - it really is an art form.”

“Music is an art form that I love dearly, and it's allowed me to bring so many people together and meet so many people.”

“Children's literature is as valid an art form as any other.”

“I found that music was my favorite art form.”

“Ballet is a classically based art form, so it comes with a certain set of rules, at least to start with; then it's about how far you want to push from there.”

“People just don't understand the art form of what we do. It's a mental and physical grind. You can't be a dolt in this industry. On the opposite end of that, you can be the smartest guy in the world and not understand what it is to have a presence on stage.”

“I prefer to make my own coffee at home because I love the experience of measuring out the beans and finding the right grind setting, messing with water amounts, etc. It's truly an art form, and I'm obsessed with it. In L.A., I love Blue Bottle and Intelligentsia and used to hang at Bru in Los Feliz.”

“Film is an art form. Dissecting and understanding it is a part of our own interest in humanity.”

“I found filmmaking to be a very practical art form. It's about figuring out how to create within the very practical limitations/constraints of time, money, and large groups of collaborators.”

“A tapper sticks to existing routines. Whereas hoofing... a hoofer pushes the art form.”

“What I'm trying to do is bring young people into doing tap so that the art form will keep going.”

“For a long time, I believed that a great piece of music on its own could do more to stir the soul than any other single art form.”

“As a young girl, I loved having stories read to me. There is something magical about narration and voiceovers. Recording a voiceover is an art form in itself.”

“To be interested in short stories, you have to be interested in fiction as an art form.”

“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.”

“What cultural revolutionaries do not seem to grasp is that, far from being a grass-roots art form that has been taken over by businessmen, rock itself comes from the commercial exploitation of the blues.”

“Ballet is like any other art form in that we all start out knowing nothing about it.”

“I'd like to see the comics' style expanded. I'd like to see artists synthesize traditional comics arts style with fine-arts styles or whatever. I like to see innovation. I don't like it when an art form becomes stagnant.”

“Celebrity has become, for better or worse, an art form. An artist can use themselves as a medium to become a celebrity as a walking work of art.”

“'Hamilton' is a game-changer for the musical theater genre. It's moved the art form forward so much and redefined so many things about what we do in theater, so it's pretty hard to oversell it.”

“I always say that drag queens are like an exaggeration of women, and I'm like an exaggeration of drag queens. People ask, 'Why do you do your makeup so differently?' and I always say, 'Well, in a subversive art form, ask yourself why so many drag queens do their makeup exactly the same.' If you can do anything, why does everybody do the same thing?”

“The truth is I do take drag really seriously, and I think that there's kind of a place for that - to see it as this political and historical art form, and to want to continue pushing it in new directions. And also honor the old directions as well. So I'm sort of like a drag intellectual/drag queen.”

“Interpretive thinking, as an art form, is dying.”

“There are documentaries that will just save your life and be the conduit to the art form you started out loving.”

“It's exciting to share an art form that I would never have imagined sharing with the deaf community. Doing musicals, it's not like, 'Oh, I'll do a musical with a deaf person.'”

“I've grown as an actor. I am more confident within my art form. I have also grown as a person. I am more compassionate, generous, and less judgmental.”

“I really have a lot of respect for music, the art form of music. It's my whole life. I don't care about any of that other stuff. And I have always felt that way. I'll build a career on my own merits, my own hard work and nothing else.”

“We have a whole industry which is gigantic: games. Games is very successful. It's its own art form, though, and it's not the same as a linear narrative.”

“American ballet... is ultimately an evolutionary art form, requiring many voices to creatively carry forward.”

“More than any other art form I know of in America, country music speaks of the true relationship between the American male and the American female... Terrible and impossible.”

“I don't like any art form barraged in violence or hurt.”

“Filmmaking is a very privileged art form. It costs a lot of money to make these things.”

“I was always trying - I never wanted to let my fans down; I always wanted them to see me in my art form.”

“Cooking is an art form, a creative thing.”

“I'm just blessed, man. I'm just happy to share my art form with everyone. That's cool.”

“I like to be around dancers who are totally committed to the art form, totally committed to the men and women around them.”

“Music was the first art form I ever had.”

“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.”

“I love music. I think it's a higher art form, in a way, than movies. You know, a film you see once, maybe twice. A song will follow you forever. It's a magical thing.”

“I was never much of a musical theater guy, but I have so much more respect for the art form, the physical exertion of doing eight shows on Broadway a week, I cannot even fathom it.”

“When you eliminate vanity from an art form, and I would think that this would be any art form, what is left is an opportunity to be incredibly naked and truthful.”

“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.”

“You forget that sometimes comedy is just a big night out for people. Almost every show, people come up to me and go, 'This is the first comedy show I've ever seen,' so you want to do well. If you do horribly at somebody's first time seeing live stand-up, well, you've not only tainted yourself, you've tainted a whole art form.”