Quotes About Art

You give a hundred percent of yourself to a film and then move on.

When you're moved by music, that's always good.

For years, I had heard about the lack of interest in literature in the U.S. and I had complained about it. I failed to understand how people could fail to be moved by art.

Where as in animation you have to kind of do a series of drawings in between to complete the movement.

And I agreed the feeling of action as he was flying or jumping or leaping - a flowing cape would give it movement. It really helped, and it was very easy to draw.

I was making a lot of independent movies before the independent movement.

Animation is not the art of drawings that move but the art of movements that are drawn.

I can dance. I like hip hop and stuff and jazz movements, but I'm horrible in ballet. I tried.

I have 7,000 DVDs and Blu-rays. I have thousands of books - thousands - and roughly 15,000 comic books or something like that, hundreds of books about different art movements - the symbolists, the dadaists, the Pre-Raphaelites, the impressionists - you know, that I consult before I start every movie.

Mostly I wanted to be a writer, though for a couple of years there I wanted to be an animator, because I loved drawing and capturing beautiful movements.

I love TV, I love writing, but I love movements more.

Early music in all kinds of movements is always a mixture of innocence and ambition.

Art can end up answering questions or asking questions. But when it's not connected to actual movements, it doesn't ask the right questions.

Give me anything that moves my heart, that gives me goosebumps.

A song isn't finished until it's played live, and then it moves on.

It's hard to explain music when it goes in your gut and makes left and right and turns and moves you and resonates with you.

Just the words and melody - that's what moves your emotions.

Music that comes from the heart - that's the music that moves me.

What moves me in art is how we question who we are as people.

If it's got the feeling, if the music moves you or not, it doesn't matter what the genre is to me.

I like movies a lot, and I feel really excited when I see a movie that moves me the right way.

If you've written something that moves you and frightens you, you just can't take it back.

For bigs, we usually have three simple moves - and the hook-shot is one of those moves that's a forgotten art. But it's always been an effective move in our league.

All that really moves me is music.