Art Quotes

Independent film is almost nonexistent right now, because all the distributers that used to love to put out these little art films are all out of business right now, because it costs so much to open a movie.

I have not intended to denigrate or hurt the beliefs of anyone through my art.

They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.

In Japanese art, space assumed a dominant role and its position was strengthened by Zen concepts.

I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!

Ah, the creative process is the same secret in science as it is in art. They are all the same absolutely.

Life is short, the art long.

My father is a well known artist, Ted Dyer, who has been painting for many years. Our work is very different, but growing up surrounded by paintings, paints, easels and art books does have an effect.

The art world can be very intimidating because it's just so vast. You talk to people who are really clued in to all the young artists and coming into it you're never going to be able to catch up immediately, even though there's pressure to.

You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.

Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal.

The dichotomy between art and industry is totally dysfunctional in terms of film.

Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us.

I cry out for order and find it only in art.

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

I quickly realized that this medium had a lot to offer someone like me. To do Disney-quality hand-drawn cartoons, you have to be a master of two art forms. Seriously, you have to be able to draw like a Leonardo da Vinci or a Michelangelo. But also you have to know movement and timing and control that through 24 frames a second.

I was an anorexic, beer drinking, class cutting, doodling, shoplifting, skater chick that was into nature, art class, and the beach.

Wilder touches all the bases... in some kind of shorthand way. Now that's art.

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.

It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.

Then I moved down to the Bowery to this building where Debbie Harry lived. It was there that I started combining some clothes for her and continued doing the art and photography.

Whatever is about you that is translated into your art, that's gonna keep you completly original and fresh and I just think that, that's just the best advice I can give, to an artist creatively.

Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

I don't get many hecklers now but answering them is an art form in itself.

Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.

Chess for me is not a game, but an art. Yes, and I take upon myself all those responsibilities which an art imposes on its adherents.

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.

There arose a belief in style - and in banality. Banality encompassed politics, too, because it was a common belief that politics were not worthy of art.

We want people to experience art and think about it. The art reflects our time, it is about our culture.