Quotes about Art

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.

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.

The art of life is the art of avoiding pain; and he is the best pilot, who steers clearest of the rocks and shoals with which it is beset.

It is no more easy to make a good picture than it is to find a diamond or a pearl. It means trouble and you risk your life for it.

I agree with Schopenhauer that one of the most powerful motives that attracts people to science and art is the longing to escape from everyday life.