#arts

The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure - if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out. ↗

— Ethel Barrymore

#arts #belong #find #generation #i

My mom was always pretty supportive. She saw me do plays and she'd always act out the parts I did. My aunt, who played a big part in my life, was a little bit more reserved, because if they don't see you on TV every week they think you must be starving. ↗

— Angela Bassett

#always #did #i #little bit #me

Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison. ↗

— Georges Bataille

#delightful #fruit #got #happiness #into

Day-old bread? Sadly, in America a lot of day-old bread just becomes nasty. Italian day-old bread, not having any preservatives in it, just becomes harder and it doesn't taste old. What I would warn people about is getting bread that's loaded with other things in it, because it starts to taste old. ↗

— Mario Batali

#america #any #because #becomes #bread

I would rather do three or four small parts every year as opposed to some of the lower-hanging fruit that might get my name above the title. ↗

— Jason Bateman

#every #four #fruit #get #i

Jennifer Aniston and I have always just really gotten along well... I was just fortunate to be a good fit for parts in her films. ↗

— Jason Bateman

#always #films #fit #fortunate #good

The joy late coming late departs. ↗

— Lewis J. Bates

#departs #joy #late

To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#arts #aspiration #available #color #every

But my middle daughter, Kate, is very involved in martial arts, and I was just at one of her competitions. ↗

— Meredith Baxter

#competitions #daughter #her #i #involved

When you mutilate movies for mass media, you tamper with the hearts and minds of America. ↗

— Warren Beatty

#hearts #mass #mass media #media #minds