Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.
When Socrates was about 30, and his father was long dead, he was still pursuing the art of sculpture, but from necessity, and without much inclination.
Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.
Animation is tremendously resilient. Animation will recover, as art always recovers. There's always cycles of good art.
Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven.
It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least.
Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in people's minds with emotion.
I took courses at USC in film editing and art direction and photography when I was still in high school.
Poetry is a vocal art for me - but not necessarily a performative one. It might be reading to oneself or recalling some lines by memory.
Unquestionably, standup comedy is and has always been an art form.
I spent much of my later childhood and adolescence very, very involved and interested in art, and particularly in animated movies.
Art is inspiring. Walking into a gallery, or when the lights go up on a stage; that thrill of getting something that has nothing to do with acquisition.
I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot.
Whatever one considers art to be, there is in many people a hunger to express themselves creatively and to feel authentic in doing that.
In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good.
Any excuse to live in New York and do art. Has to be one of the most rewarding experiences in the world.
A picture book is a small door to the enormous world of the visual arts, and they're often the first art a young person sees.
The study of history and philosophy, accompanied by some acquaintance with art and literature, should be for lawyers and engineers as well as for those who study in arts faculties.
I think making a movie is like drawing or creating an art piece. The artwork reflects part of your personality, but not all.
Artists know that diligence counts as much, if not more, as inspiration; in art, as in politics, patience counts as much as revolution.
When I was a kid, toe dancing and toe shoes had a meaning in our culture as a serious kind of art.
