Quotes About Art

Every animator is really an actor performing in slow motion, living the character a drawing at a time.

Film recognizes neither time nor space, only the limits of man's imagination

Music is something that should speak for itself, straight from the heart. It took me a long time to understand that.

The printed page transcends space and time. The printed page, the infinity of the book, must be transcended.

It is the artist who is truthful and it is photography which lies, for in reality time does not stop

If you look at Paleolithic cave paintings, you see how people were depicted inside nature, not outside it. It was a kind of dream time. That's what I'm exploring.

Or certainly I would need time - which I would love to have but there almost never is on a film - to just spend a week with a roomful of guys laying down these patterns.

I seek a form of language which will express my ideas for our time.

Art is to me the glorification of the human spirit, and as such it is the cultural documentation of the time in which it is produced.

If each photograph steals a bit of the soul, isn't it possible that I give up pieces of mine every time I take a picture?

Music is not sound. Music is using sound to organize emotions in time.

In art, new ways of seeing mean new ways of feeling; you can't divorce the two, as, we are now aware, you cannot have time without space and space without time.

Painting is neither decorative amusement, nor the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.

Everywhere I look and most of the time I look, I see photographs.

For me, a play is a form of writing which isn't complete until it is interpreted by actors. But it's still a form of writing. And so most of my time is spent thinking about how to write a sentence.

The famous soft watches are nothing else than the tender, extravagant, solitary, paranoic-critical camembert oftime and space.

Just because a person spends her time making a piece of something does not mean that she becomes that - a piece of something.

I didn't have time to be anyone's muse... I was too busy rebelling against my family and learning to be an artist.

We see in colour all the time. Everything around us is in colour. Black and white is therefore immediately an interpretation of the world, rather than a copy.

Tattoos are interesting, but at the same time they are also a mask - you are exhibiting your past life on your body.

I got a voodoo doll every time I pen a verse: Not only do they say they feel it, but they say it hurts.

When Ginger Rogers danced with Astaire, it was the only time in the movies when you looked at the man, not the woman.

I try every time for a project to have a natural ending. As much as I can, I try to follow the story and to give it its own end.

The art of music is so deep and profound that to approach it very seriously only is not enough. One must approach music with a serious rigor and, at the same time, with a great, affectionate joy.