Art Quotes

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

It's an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things reductive to the soul.

I do not feel any artist can produce great art without putting great personality into it. It is always a piece of you that goes on the screen or the canvass.

The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.

I'm free. I just do what I want, say what I want, say how I feel, and I don't try to hurt nobody. I just try to make sure that I don't compromise my art in any kind of way, and I think people respect that.

The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means.

Art matters.

London, thou art the flower of cities all!

Well, I'm an artist to the core. And my objective has always been to use my talents and my skills to elevate humanity through my art.

Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.

And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art that it consecrated everything with which art had to ad as a religious object.

Part of the joy of looking at art is getting in sync in some ways with the decision-making process that the artist used and the record that's embedded in the work.

Because most of my career in the classroom has been at art schools (beginning at Bennington in the 1970s), I am hyper-aware of the often grotesque disconnect between commentary on the arts and the actual practice or production of the arts.

I learned more from my mother than from all the art historians and curators who have informed me about technical aspects of art history and art appreciation over the years.

Art doesn't alter things. It points things out, but it doesn't alter them. It can't, no matter what a painter wants to do.

Animation is tremendously resilient. Animation will recover, as art always recovers. There's always cycles of good art.

Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?

Rules and models destroy genius and art.

Art, in the first place, has to connect with yourself.

Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion. Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art.

I dropped out of school for a semester, transferred to another college, switched to an art major, graduated, got married, and for a while worked as a graphic designer.

I think that one's art is a growth inside one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is silent and subtle. One does not keep digging up a plant to see how it grows.

Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.

The process of art evolving is always one which has fascinated me.

I've always wanted to be an animator. That's an ultimate art form, right there.

I would be willing to do almost anything to make Art happy. I care about our friendship. The only thing I won't do is change the essence of my work.

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

I was brought up feeling that art is a very important part of one's life. It's something that I not only enjoy, it's something I can share with others.

Well my taste wasn't very good when I first started out. But later, when I began to appreciate the art of acting, I would say the actress I most admire is Vanessa Redgrave.