Quotes about Art

You don't want to pitch a tent and live inside the Louvre. You want to check it out, appreciate it, and move somewhere else.

There may be no single thing more important in our efforts to achieve meaningful work and fulfilling relationships than to learn to practice the art of communication.

For an artist to think in terms of success is like a priest trying to think in terms of success.

Do people choose the art that inspires them — do they think it over, decide they might prefer the fabulous to the real? For me, it was those early readings of fairy tales that made me who I was as a reader and, later on, as a storyteller.

There is no fiercer enemy than a word. A word that can be written down in pages and punctuated by quotation marks and commas and spelled out in contracts and poems and sighs, in old whispers and song lyrics, in promises and vows.

We do it because we care. We care that Vincent Van Gogh mutilated his ear. We care that behind a pile of manure in the yard he destroyed his life. We care that Scott Joplin's music lives! We care because we know this: the life we save is our own.

In my work I have complete control, but about my life, I don't want to.

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means.

Just because something isn't practical doesn't mean it's not worth creating. Sometimes beauty and real-life magic are enough.

Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

My life is making movies. I like storytelling, and I've got a lot of stories that are stored up in my head that I hope to get out before my time is up.

Whatever a human being makes and makes live, it lives because of the life he puts into it.