Quotes About Art

I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.

The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.

The only thing better than singing is more singing.

The idea of dancing is the only thing that scares me.

The arts stimulate imagination. They provoke thought. And then, having done that, all sorts of other things happen.

Why is it okay to write a work of literary fiction where horrible, explicit things happen, where you can't write a book of humor where silly, explicit things are happening?

That's the great thing about filmmaking: Things happen you don't know are going to happen at the end.

Cinema is not only about making people dream. It's about changing things and making people think.

Modeling, for me, isn't about being beautiful but creating something interesting for people to look at and think about.

I don't think of cartoons or comics as being for kids.

You might not think that programmers are artists, but programming is an extremely creative profession. It's logic-based creativity.

I think it is in collaboration that the nature of art is revealed.

Honestly, without art and dance, I think I would be a very safe, black-and-white thinker. I wouldn't dare to take any risks or see so much of the world in myself and other people!

In my experience, people looking for progress aren't actually looking to move things forward. They're looking to be perceived in a certain way: as a forward thinker. It's about vanity rather than any altruistic motives for the art.

Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.

My pictures are always part of my thinking, and my emotions, tensions, dreams, desires.

I'm an actor, and I keep observing people and their reactions to figure out what they are thinking. There's only so much you can do on your own, so you have to keep learning. Art imitates life.

My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.

One is just an interpreter of what the playwright thinks, and therefore the greater the playwright, the more satisfying it is to act in the plays.

The first half of the 20th century belongs to Picasso, and the second half is about photography. They said digital would kill photography because everyone can do it, but they said that about the box brownie in 1885 when it came out. It makes photography interesting because everyone thinks they can take a picture.

Everybody thinks they know what art should be. But very few of them have the sense that is necessary to experience painting, that is the sense of sight, that sees colors and forms as living reality in the picture.

The modern world thinks of art as very important: something close to the meaning of life.

A high-brow is someone who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso.

Songs are about whatever you want them to be about. For me it might mean something completely different than what it means to you. So I'd say it's about whatever the listener thinks it's about.