Quotes About Art

The art of healing is like an unroofed temple, uncovered at the top and cracked at the foundation.

I'm using my art to comment on what I see. You don't have to agree with it.

Tennis is more than just a sport. It's an art, like the ballet. Or like a performance in the theater.

Do not fail, as you go on, to draw something every day, for no matter how little it is, it will be well worthwhile, and it will do you a world of good.

The true artist can only labor con amore.

The fact that cartoons are reproduced doesn't mean anything to me as far as whether they are "real art" or not.

Psycholog­y is in its infancy, as a science. I hope in the interests of Art, it will always remain so.

Focus should be on the art of film, not on the business of film.

It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.

With curious art the brain, too finely wrought, Preys on herself, and is destroyed by thought.

Artists need a lot of collectors, all kinds of collectors, buying their art.

What makes a regiment of soldiers a more noble object of view than the same mass of mob? Their arms, their dresses, their banners, and the art and artificial symmetry of their position and movements.

There is a constant ebb and flow in art historical reputations. The reputation of even the greatest figures like Picasso are in flux.

People in misery is what most important in art.

Making films is great. You've got 100 people around and you're all dressing up and making weird art - it's a fun group activity.

I regularly find myself waking up to art I passed by or simply ignored.

Comics, at least in periodical form, exist almost entirely free of any pretense; the critical world of art hardly touches them, and they're 100% personal.

Animation is capable to go beyond superego defense strategies and touch deep human being contents as no other art expression.

Please do not strain yourself, Miss Doyle. I won't have my girls going cross-eyed in the name of art.

No one blames themselves if they don't understand a cartoon, as they might with a painting or "real" art; they simply think it's a bad cartoon.

Graffiti is something written on a wall, and, of course, art can be exhibited or produced anywhere: a wall is just another venue.

I collect human relationships very much the way others collect fine art.

There was no point in doing art if you were going to be second-rate.

I think a philistine environment should be bracing for young artists. You have to make your own enjoyment, you've got to make your own art.