Art Quotes

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.

I am inspired by life, past experiences, what's to come, women around me, art, colors, paintings, and emotions.

Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.

Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions.

What I am sad about is that there is now, in America, no equivalent to the art circuit.

India is a land of plenty inhibited by poverty; India has an enthralling, uplifting civilization that sparkles not only in our magnificent art, but also in the enormous creativity and humanity of our daily life in city and village.

Roman Polanski is a man who cares deeply about his art and its place in this world. What happened to him on his incredible path is filled with tragedy, and most men would have collapsed. Instead, he became a great artist and continues to make great films.

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.

In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented.

All of the generations go to what is chic for them, and theater seems to be an older generation's art form.

Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.