Stephen Sondheim Quotes
Puzzles are like songs - A good puzzle can give you all the pleasure of being duped that a mystery story can. It has surface innocence, surprise, the revelation of a concealed meaning, and the catharsis of solution.
Stephen Sondheim
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Denise Mina is probably one of the most gifted writers out there, whether it's mystery or literary or whatever label you want to give it.
Karin Slaughter
Photographing a cake can be art.
Irving Penn
What song have you played 10,000 times? It's probably not something basic. It's probably a song that validates your experience on Earth.
Jack Antonoff
Fun.
If Mozart were around now he would write a killer rock song.
Vanessa Carlton
With head upraised, and look intent,And eye and ear attentive bent,And locks flung back, and lips apart,Like monument of Grecian art,In listening mood, she seemed to stand,The guardian Naiad of the strand.
Walter Scott
'I think the art of filmmaking is something you learn through actions, by doing it, not by learning theories. And as you do it, your mind starts to change.'
Alejandro Jodorowsky
I realized very soon the danger of repeating indiscriminately this form of expression and decided to limit the production of 'ready-mades' to a small number yearly. I was aware at that time, that for the spectator even more than for the artist, art is a habit forming drug and I wanted to protect my 'ready-mades' against such contamination.
Marcel Duchamp
Art and literature should help us to get out of our mental cocoons.
Elif Safak
I'm an art collector, have been for years, and I paint. Needless to say, the artwork in my houses, apartment is extensive.
Loretta Swit
I love Monet: his 'Water Lilies' would look great on my wall. But would I prefer to see money helping kids get better from cancer rather than spending it on a work of art for my own personal indulgence? Yes, I probably would.
Bonnie Langford
I can remember when I was just, like, about four years old in Compton, and my mother would have me stack 45s, stack about ten of them, and when one would finish, the next record would drop. It was like I was DJ'ing for the house, picking out certain songs and so this song would go after that song.
Dr. Dre
Nature is the art of God.
Dante Alighieri
I read tons of books, listen to music non-stop, watch as many movies as possible, catch a play when I can, art shows, concerts, bar talks - I just try to engage in art, which to me is everywhere, as often as I can because narrative lives in it all.
Jason Reynolds
When I began writing songs, there was a pretty direct line between what was happening in my life and what I wrote about. So my first album was really all about my failed attempts to make a particular relationship work.
Erin McKeown
There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.
Robert Frost
Broadway! Broad-way! I don't aspire to the middle. I aspire to the tip-tip-top of it all.
Billy Porter
I tend to place my own value in spirituality rather than religiosity.
Kitty Kelley
Puzzles are like songs - A good puzzle can give you all the pleasure of being duped that a mystery story can. It has surface innocence, surprise, the revelation of a concealed meaning, and the catharsis of solution.
Stephen Sondheim
