Quotes About Art

it's easy to draw Calvin. You just make a big mouth and add some hair.

I think it is in collaboration that the nature of art is revealed.

I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot.

There's a lot of thought in art. People get to talk about important things. There's a lot of sex, you know, in art. There's a lot of naked women and men, and there's intrigue, there's fakery. It's a real microcosm of the larger world.

I'm enamored with the art world. Anytime you look at anything that's considered artistic, there's a commercial world around it: the ballet, opera, any kind of music. It can't exist without it.

Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.

I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot.

They had lost all sense of the art, always to provide one's prince with the refuge of credible deniability, what the British called a scintilla of truth.

You could attempt to draw any line you wanted, but wet ink always seeped down the page.

Shocking Paris,

Jeffrey Meyers' Modigliani: A Life,

Dan Franck's Bohemian Paris

It should also be remembered that art created to change minds often actually does more to bolster the spirit of those already in agreement than it does to convert opponents.

A corollary of this has been that Christians have thought that they should only create art with a Pollyanna quality to it: paintings of birds and kittens, movies that extol family life and end happily, songs that are positive and uplifting – in short, works of art that show a world that is almost unfallen where no one experiences conflict and where sin is naughty rather than wicked.

In a similar way, the arts can act on God's side by preserving beauty and drawing out the highest achievements capable by humans. The arts can help preserve and renew cultures, and this is a good thing in itself.

The secular mind frequently doesn't face up to the full implications of its beliefs; art can provide a timely shock that results in a reassessment.

There is a need for wisdom in art. Shock, surprise, novelty, and innovation helped to grab attention but are not substantial in themselves.

Computer storyboarding programs, such as StoryBoard Quick and StoryBoard Artist

Art is edited truth . . . Art is skill in the service of passion. —STEPHEN SONDHEIM

Painting consists of long periods of minutes followed by short bursts of hours

You connect yourself to the viewer by by sharing something that is inside of you that connects with something inside of him. All you have as your guide is that you know what moves you.

There is no painting so large that the artist can hide behind it.

I was convinced (still I am, in fact) that there's no such thing as a novel, astonishing or not, without a penis.

It's something of a parodox that film, the art that most resembles our daydreams, is the one most difficult to bring into existence.