Quotes About Art

Art is the manipulation of someone else's imagination.

Filmmaking is like playing in your imagination and getting paid to do it. I guess I'll ride this horse until it bucks me.

The worlds I paint leave a lot to engage the imagination by hinting at what lies beyond the four edges of the painting.

Artistic imagination must remain free. It is by definition free from any fidelity to circumstances, especially to the intoxicating circumstances of history.

I've always believed that true cinema is cinema of the imagination.

Writing fiction is an act of imagination and fantasizing, and it's not relating in prose what you've been doing for the last two or three years.

The art of movies is to allow the audience to suspend their disbelief. They need to use their imaginations.

Imagination! Imagination! I put it first years ago, when I was asked what qualities I thought necessary for success on the stage.

The culture is with some rapidity fearing its imagination. I don't know why. Imagination is not of interest.

Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous.

On stage, you're not limited at all because you're free in language: language is the source of the imagination. You can travel farther in language than you can in any film.

By the single example of this painter devoted to his art with such independence, my destiny as a painter opened out to me.

The camera is, in a sense, both a way to get close, and to break free. It is a testimony to independence as well as a new way to relate to the world

Egypt is kind of like the Hollywood of the Middle East. I mean, we had cinema maybe decades before the other Arab countries ever got independence.

the independence of the artist is one of the great safeguards of the freedom of the human spirit.

Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.

Dance is the hidden langauge of the soul, of the body.

To my mind, a picture should be something pleasant, cheerful, and pretty, yes pretty! There are too many unpleasant things in life as it is without creating still more of them.

We don't make mistakes; we just have happy accidents.

Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.

In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.

Never draw anything you can copy, never copy anything you can trace, never trace anything you can cut out and paste up.

Only truthful hands write true poems. I cannot see any basic difference between a handshake and a poem.

I hate the word 'production'...it's a ceremony, it's a ritual...you should go out of the theatre stronger and more human than when you went in.