Quotes About Art

My family runs a little art gallery back in Cornwall, so flashy cars and things like that have never really been particularly interesting to me.

In our family, there wasn't anything else besides art. Nothing else in the world existed. My father never spoke about going to a movie or listening to music, other than my mother's singing.

It was my family that wanted me to be a teacher. That was safe, you see. To be a painter was terrible.

When I was four years old some friends of my family took me to see 'Fantasia' and I was totally blown away. From that minute on I wanted to be an animator.

The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family.

From a very young age, I was singing and acting and performing for my family.

My brother and I grew up in a musical family. We have an older sister who sings and plays the piano. Our dad is a musician. Music was always a part of our lives.

The dramatist's function is (1) to earn a living for his family and himself and (2) to try to entertain people for a few hours.

Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life and to do it rightly is an art like any other.

The only artists for whom I would make way are - children. For me the paintings of children belong side by side with the works of the masters.

That's what music is: entertainment. The more you put yourself into it, the more of you comes out in it.

I'm not interested in being famous or anything, but I'm definitely interested in expressing emotions, and acting and filmmaking can be great outlets for that. Filmmaking is an incredible art.

Sometimes there are painters or very famous artists who start to become artists after they are dead because an audience or a public know about their art after they die.

Forever encased in the amber of a writer's prose.

All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.

A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, and some fantasy. When you always make your meaning perfectly plain you end up boring people.

Fantasy abandoned by reason produces impossible monsters

I think the worst that can happen in filmmaking is if you're working with a storyboard. That kills all intuition, all fantasy, all creativity.

This is a fantasy fiddle tune. The part you fantasize is the fiddle.

Models are there to look like mannequins, not like real people. Art and illusion are supposed to be fantasy.

Fantasy is hard to do when it comes to making it look good compared to something that's a documentary or hyper-realism.

The photographer and the director are where reality and fantasy meet.

I'd like to write the way I do my paintings, that is, as fantasy takes me, as the moon dictates.

Why should the composer be more guilty than the poet who warms to fantasy by a strange flame, making an idea that inspires him the subject of his own very different treatment?