Quotes About Art

People peep into boxes at moving stereoscopic prints, imagining they're in other worlds, and the crowd around a glassblower wonders whether icicles have formed in summer. Potted trees revive and suddenly look fresh when a florist sprinkles water on them, while papier-mâché turtles hanging out for sale move in the wind and take on souls.

The art of management is the art of making meaningful generalizations out of inadequate facts.

People who design machines and airplanes {or buildings}, no matter how much they believe that what they do is good, the winds of time eventually turn them into tools of industrial civilization. They're cursed dreams. Animation, too. Beautiful yet cursed dreams.

Producing an animation series merely to fill time slots in the broadcast schedule is like generating cultural pollution.

If I were asked my view, in a nutshell, of what animation is, I would say it is what ever I want to create.

A personal movie is a frightening thing.

It might seem like the easier way to get rid of a poet would be just to take him out to the backyard, have him kneel between the cans with tomato plants in them and put a bullet in his brain. But they knew from history that it doesn't work to kill a writer. Every time you shoot a poet,a dozen new ones are born. It's like plucking a grey hair.

The pawn dealer was always impressed by Pierrot's perspicuity when it came to selecting the paintings. He always plucked incredible works of art, the most valuable pieces in the collection.

There was a painting of Jesus rolling his eyes up at the sky in every room.

Immersing ourselves in art and the immeasurable through being allows us a more truthful experience of the world.

When words leave off, music begins.

First poems! They must be written on casual scraps of faded paper, interspersed here and there with withered flowers, or a lock of blond hair, or a discolored piece of ribbon, and the trace of a tear must still be visible in several places ... But first poems that are printed, in livid black and white, on dreadfully smooth paper are poems that have lost the finest points of their sweet, virginal charm, and now arouse a ghastly feeling of distaste in the author.

Painting will help your photography," she said. "It will put you in touch with your feelings.

When a writer writes, it's as if she holds the sides of her chest apart, exposes her beating heart. And even though everything wants to heal, to close over and protect the heart, the writer must keep it bare, exposed.

I sometimes wonder if the hand is not more sensitive to the beauties of sculpture than the eye. I should think the wonderful rhythmical flow of lines and curves could be more subtly felt than seen. Be this as it may, I know I can feel the heart-throbs of the ancient Greeks in their marble gods and goddesses.

Virgil is serene and lovely like a marble Apollo in the moonlight; Homer is a beautiful, animated youth in the full sunlight with the wind in his hair.

When you're writing, you are robbed of your delivery.

It seems to me that many writers, by virtue of environments of culture, art and education, slip into writing because of their environments.

Writing is the beast unto itself.

It's a terrible poison, writing.

I've always been amazed by Da Vinci, because he worked out science on his own. He would work by drawing things and writing down his ideas. Of course, he designed all sorts of flying machines way before you could actually build something like that.

I really liked writing rhyming poems and plays.

Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing.

I think all writing is necessarily autobiographical to a greater or lesser extent, and the less it tries to be confessional, the more likely it is that you're somehow sneaking the things you need to say in there.