Todd Newton famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • As my poor father used to say In 1963, Once people start on all this Art Goodbye, moralitee! And what my father used to say Is good enough for me.

  • Has it led you to the conclusion that photography is an art ? Or it is simply a means of recording ? "I'm glad you asked that. I've been wanting to say this for years. Is cooking an art ? Is talking an art ? Is even painting an art ? It is artfulness that makes art, not the medium itself. Of course photography is an art - when it is in the hands of 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.

  • I reside in a new colony for the Chinese-singing banjo player, with a population of one. At least I have something I have to do with my life.

  • Nobody leaves this place without singing the blues.

  • There's not a day that I don't work on vocals, have vocal coaches, go to acting classes, read books.

  • My life has been the antithesis of that book 'The Secret'. I've always been interested in doing what I do. I love storytelling and I really enjoyed acting, but it never seemed like a realistic thing.

  • It's bad writing, however naturalistic it's written, that's where you have to do your best acting.

  • Acting is really about having the courage to fail in front of people.

  • Through theater and acting school, I found a way to articulate myself.

You may also like: