Quotes About Art

Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.

For me, collages manage to - it satisfies all of my madness, like I'm able to make these obsessive things, but then I'm also able to make these very strong statements. I don't know what they mean to other people, but in my mind, they have a very strong particular resonance; there's sort of a power.

You can create something strong in art with a few notes. It is like how Aboriginal drawings have a simplicity that is incredibly rich.

I like all those painters who loved and had a strong feeling for nature.

There are some images that I will only use once, and not use again because they don't seem to really hit the nail right on the head, but there are some which are so strong they have to be reduced; sometimes just reusing them makes them stronger.

A part of sexuality may go to research, and a much larger part must lead to aesthetic creation. The art of the future will, because of the very opportunities and materials it will have at its command, need an infinitely stronger formative impulse than it does now.

Canada has always been a great place for literature. It's strong and growing stronger, and there will always be reading, and there will always be great writers.

I feel the art world in New York has a stronger following than Britain. If you go to a New York art district on a Saturday morning, it will be so busy with families and openings - art is much more ingrained in the culture.

The most lively fancy aided by the strongest description cannot equal the reality of the opera.

My most successful books, the ones that I feel the strongest about, are the ones that started with a premise that for me was deeply emotional.

Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly.

I feel everything very strongly, and I find that when I sing through music, it helps me connect to people.

In some ways, I feel like the strength of animation is in its simplicity and caricature, and in reduction. It's like an Al Hirschfeld caricature, where he'll use, like, three lines, and he'll capture the likeness of someone so strongly that it looks more like them than a photograph. I think animation has that same power of reduction.

When I come up with an idea about the way I feel, I can really state it strongly in a song.

I don't know what makes a guy want to write songs and sing, but if you've got a message, you want to get it across. When I come up with an idea about the way I feel, I can really state it strongly in a song.

I feel too strongly about rearranging reality in a movie. It gives me peace.

Crimes of Passion, which is one of the best films I've done, will live strongly in my resume, even though it didn't do well.

I strongly believe cinema is popular culture. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. That's life.

Hand-drawn animation is something that I feel really strongly about. A Pixar movie may be really great, but it looks like it was drawn by a machine.

I strongly believe that music comes from the soul and no amount of technology can 'manufacture' that.

The fact is popular art dates. It grows quaint. How many people feel strongly about Gilbert and Sullivan today compared to those who felt strongly in 1890?

I was not influenced by concerts as a child, but I was very strongly influenced by the ballets I saw.

My reputation for writing quickly and effortlessly notwithstanding, I am strongly in favor of intelligent, even fastidious revision, which is, or certainly should be, an art in itself.

What lists and awards don't measure - and I feel this strongly - is the lasting value of any work of art. They're a snapshot of a moment, and one should always consider their judgments in that context.