Quotes About Art

Smooth shapes are very rare in the wild but extremely important in the ivory tower and the factory.

By itself, just to draw crazy creatures has limited appeal - if I had to give up one thing, it would be the wild imagination. When the work becomes too detached from ordinary life, it starts to fall apart. Fantasy needs to have some connection with reality, or it becomes of its own interest only, insular.

Faeries are associated with wild untamed nature, with art, and with death - so the folklore is rich with different stories to explore.

I think the act of condensing months or years of work down to a couple hours of entertainment is pretty wild and extremely rewarding.

Everyone in those days expected that art students were wild, licentious characters. We didn't know how to be, but we sure were anxious to learn.

'Raiders of the Lost Ark' made me want to make films. I am wild about the films of John Carpenter, Ridley Scott, Howard Hawks and Sam Peckinpah.

I'm a musical geek. It's like there's this big, wild universe in my head, and I love to express it.

A novel is no mere assemblage of gears; it is a wild and living being. And how are you to discern the intentions of a creature - to discover its true nature - other than by close and respectful observation?

I studied fine arts, and color and composition was always my thing, but I've never been too wild with my fashion.

Acting between action and cut is temporary. The result is permanent.

The nature of photography has always resisted that temptation of interpretation. I look, and what I see looks back at me.

I've heard that many fine artists have to turn their 'finished' paintings to face the wall - otherwise, every time they walk past, they are tempted to pick up a brush and make small adjustments here and there.

There's something very dreamlike about film, and I will always be very fascinated by that, and I'm always tempted to go in that direction.

Ten Days That Shook The World, by Eisenstein, I went to see it, and I was so impressed with this film, so impressed with what cinema could do.

One does not study for a goal. One sings because one can't help it! The 'goal' nine times out of ten is a mere accident.

I grew up with art from the innocent age of ten - with art, but with no sense of identity.

Rock never meant the same thing to everyone, but when I was growing up in the late seventies, everyone could identify the five, ten bands that formed the center.

I like to be able to get swift curves in the plant drawings that are usually drawn in five to ten minutes.

'The Next Ten Minutes' from 'The Last Five Years' is one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard.

One thing about an artist, it doesn't matter how much your work sells for in your life, it's going to sell for ten times more than that after you're dead, and that's what you have to protect.

The creature from the black lagoon - I drew that creature almost every day, two, three times a day, for probably my first ten years of life, you know.

When we were kids, I know when I saw 'Pinocchio' it had a huge impact. I was ten years old, and I went home, and I was drawing the characters.

I had been working in colour for ten years or so and looked at digital and liked the possibilities it gave me.

Perspective in art has receded along with harmony in music: We tend more and more to see the world as a heap of intrinsically meaningless fragments.