I received from my experience in Japan an incredible sense of respect for the art of creating, not just the creative product. We're all about the product. To me, the process was also an incredibly important aspect of the total form.

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We have often been attracted to the story of the other, the outcast. And he and I just loved working together, so it just kept happening, and our relationship is completely bound up with our work. We enjoy each other's art.

Julie Taymor

But I don't think there has ever been anything written on the nature of violent man as deep and as thorough as Shakespeare's Titus. I think it puts all modern movies and modern exploitations of violence to shame.

Julie Taymor

Americans in particular are myopic. They're not traveling as much. When you were a college student, the next thing you would do on graduation was to take a year off and travel. That's what I did. I went to Indonesia.

Julie Taymor

I have directed good actors and have gone through the process which is more detailed in theater in a way. You have to get people to stay for two or three hours in a performance. They need more talk and rehearsal than in films.

Julie Taymor

We took Beowulf, the epic poem in Old English, and put it right together with John Gardner's contemporary retelling. If you bring it into today, we really feel that it has something very fresh to say now.

Julie Taymor

What I don't have in theater is editing.

Julie Taymor

People will justify whatever for a good cause.

Julie Taymor

I use cinematic things in a theatrical way on stage, and in film I use theatrical techniques in a cinematic way.

Julie Taymor

I received from my experience in Japan an incredible sense of respect for the art of creating, not just the creative product. We're all about the product. To me, the process was also an incredibly important aspect of the total form.

Julie Taymor

You know, I went to Oberlin. At that time, grades were - you elected to have them or not. It was all of that era where grades were out the window. But I did very well in school. I didn't really study the arts; I practiced the arts.

Julie Taymor

I'm not going to spend two years on a film or four years on an opera if I don't feel like I can put my own self into it. That doesn't mean it has to be about myself.

Julie Taymor

There is incredible power in the arts to inspire and influence.

Julie Taymor

I really do believe that if you don't challenge yourself and risk failing, that it's not interesting.

Julie Taymor

And I just think that to introduce an unknown Shakespeare is thrilling, too - not to do Hamlet or Romeo and Juliet, to do the richer Shakespeare. People will come to this and not know the story.

Julie Taymor

I am, to be quite honest, sick of hero stories.

Julie Taymor

I have never had a problem with people not being able to understand the words and the meanings in Titus.

Julie Taymor

You program music with an image and then people are desensitized.

Julie Taymor

When I was thinking about The Lion King, I said, we have to do what theater does best. What theater does best is to be abstract and not to do literal reality.

Julie Taymor

It's people who are repressed and cannot express their fears that are dangerous.

Julie Taymor

One of the reasons I love to jump back and forth between mediums is that film does allow me to be more literal. I can go to the real place. I can go to the Coliseum, and I don't have to fake it.

Julie Taymor

Theater is far superior to film in poetry, in abstract poetry.

Julie Taymor

I think we all see the world from our own little unique bubble.

Julie Taymor

You have to stop yourself from even thinking about failing.

Julie Taymor

Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Michael Korda

The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one.

Jean Racine

I grew up with art from the innocent age of ten - with art, but with no sense of identity.

John Lone

One does not devote one's life in art to shock an audience.

Richard Foreman

The other great development has been in photography, but that too was influenced by Conceptual art.

Sol LeWitt

My art became very public.

Joey Skaggs

Riding a race bike is an art - a thing that you do because you feel something inside.

Valentino Rossi

The idea is, if I can't heal from my art, then how can you heal?

Maynard James Keenan

But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry.

John Drinkwater

One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train.

Morihei Ueshiba

I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.

Marcel Duchamp

Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.

Egon Schiele

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

George Bernard Shaw

Julie Taymor

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

Leonardo da Vinci

It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.

George Santayana

At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was interested in theatre design, stage design or television design.

Jim Henson

Art is an expression of who you are. Parts that I play are my sculptures.

Kim Cattrall

There has always been quite a strong black and white art tradition in Australia, with quite a large contingent of cartoonists, given the size of the population.

Pat Oliphant

There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean the kind of poetry written in England forty years ago.

Allen Tate

A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk.

Samuel Johnson

What motivates me in art is the ugly and beautiful nature of the truth. It has to be truthful and honest, even if it is ugly and grotesque.

Corin Nemec

A great thing happening now in art is that artists are using the figure, the body, clothing, life.

Issey Miyake

I was the executive editor on a little magazine called Greek Accent, whose only claim to fame is that its art director went on to be the art director of Discover for many years.

Jane Haddam

I always feel like the art's there and I just see it, so it's not really a lot of work.

Damien Hirst