Quotes About Art

Lyrical poetry is much the same an every age, as the songs of the nightingales in every spring-time.

It's pre-photography, a fossilization of time, Americans have done the Zen garden to death. I wanted to do something different.

I remember that at one time I always made a drawing before going to bed!! - Of myself I mean - though I finally destroyed most of them.

Directing a movie is the greatest job in the world. I could not be more envious of the guys who get to do it all the time.

A lot of the time in animation is spent getting the story right - that's something you can't rush.

Sometimes good art jumps out at me; most of the time I see bad art, or see nothing at all and just drift, feeling weird, pretending to be fine.

I'm creating songs. I do it most of the time, in the car or in the house.

I have a theory. An audience doesn't need to get wrapped up in blackness every time they see a Negro actor. And a movie doesn't have to be about race just because there's a Negro in it.

You have the 20th century wrapping up and everything is moving at this breakneck speed? And then, painting is still walking. It's just a very human activity that takes time.

Music is edifying, for from time to time it sets the soul in operation.

Sometimes the song that takes the littlest amount of time are sometimes the best songs you ever do.

In my opinion, the most significant works of the twentieth century are those that rise beyond the conceptual tyranny of genre; they are, at the same time, poetry, criticism, narrative, drama, etc.

The '60s were an amazing time.

I spend much more time looking at art history and at different references to art than I do at actual objects.

People don't have time to wait for somebody to paint their portraits anymore. The money is in photography.

I don't watch my own films. There is little time; I'd rather see another film.

A good style must have an air of novelty, at the same time concealing its art.

Painting something that defies the law of the land is good. Painting something that defies the law of the land and the law of gravity at the same time is ideal.

I was so absolutely riveted, I felt I was looking into the eyes of the artist. Art just closed the gap of time and space. The 16th century became as real to me as the 20th. It was something magical.

Man simply cannot live as the time-animal and the art-animal that he is, without history.

I always give a print to everybody I photograph, and some of my subjects have told me they have a hard time hanging them up at home.

It'd be nice to make lots of money but it's quite difficult, because every time I make lots of money I make a bigger piece that costs lots of money.

I sometimes use music as way of getting back to a certain time, dredging up stuff from the past and putting it down on canvas.

When you are in the field of creativity, you lose track of time. Only the flow exists.