Jesse L. Martin famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

This world is not one color or culture. Everybody has a story. To tell that story or see that story reflected through art is extremely valuable to the community. The arts belong to everyone and our work should reflect that diversity.
-- Jesse L. Martin

#Art #Color #Diversity
I have plenty of Law & Order on my resume.
-- Jesse L. Martin

#Order #Law #Resumes
I was in Rent, for Gods sake. The closest we came to stunts was dancing on a table.
-- Jesse L. Martin

#Dancing #Tables #Sake
As a student studying acting, I was always broke, so going to see any live theater was almost impossible.
-- Jesse L. Martin

#Acting #Students #Impossible
I want to be remembered as a great actor - and a shining example of humanity.
-- Jesse L. Martin

#Shining #Humanity #Example
Go back to what's good, what's certain, what's always there. You woke up today. Just start walking.
-- Jesse L. Martin

#Today #Certain #Walking
I did end up becoming a drawer, a sketcher and a painter because of comic books, but I didn't read them. Not at all.
-- Jesse L. Martin

#Book #Becoming #Comic

To Lawren Harris art was almost a mission. He believed that a country which ignored the arts left no record of itself worth preserving.
The traditional difficulty of balancing the mechanical with the imaginative schools of photography still operates. In schools of photography meaningful art education is often lacking and on the strength of their technical ability alone students, deprived of a richer artistic training, are sent forth inculcated with the belief that they are creative photographers and artists. It is yet a fact that today, as in the past, the most inspiring and provocative works in photography come as much (and probably more) from those who are in the first place artists.
Only recently serious research into the relationship between photography and art has taken place. Why has it been so long in coming ? In some respects historical research is analogous with that of science. The bringing to light of factual material and the development of ideas is to a large extent cumulative. But when artists themselves were, from about 1910, beginning to tear down the bastions protecting Art in its ivory tower, questioning the idea of Art with a capital 'A', photography was inevitably to assume a new stature both in the eyes of artists and the public, too.
We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to expect... but, as photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs.
The death of a dream can in fact serve as the vehicle that endows it with new form, with reinvigorated substance, a fresh flow of ideas, and splendidly revitalized color. In short, the power of a certain kind of dream is such that death need not indicate finality at all but rather signify a metaphysical and metaphorical leap forward.
There is no old Adam Young, there is no new Adam Young, merely different colors andï»¿ different brushstrokes over the same canvas.
It will be helpful in our mutual objective to allow every man in America to look his neighbor in the face and see a man-not a color.
I want to express the utmost intensity of the color, bring out the quality, make it expressive.
The overwhelming triumph of the international multimedia conglomerate has resulted in less diversity within the field and has made it much harder for newer writers not only to break in, but to make any kind of a living while doing so.
[The media] are using a national treasure--that's what the public airwaves are. And they have a responsibility to bring out the full diversity of opinion or lose their licenses.

Jesse L. Martin famous quotes

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