Art Quotes

“The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.”

-- Walter Benjamin

“Animation is not the art of drawings that move but the art of movements that are drawn.”

-- Norman McLaren

“By the work one knows the workman.”

-- Jean de La Fontaine

“Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.”

-- Frank Zappa

“I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.”

-- Andy Warhol

“Film in the 20th century, it's the American art form, like jazz.”

-- Martin Scorsese

“In art as in love, instinct is enough.”

-- Anatole France

“A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.”

-- Hedy Lamarr

“One of the things you're doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what ways of working feel good, what feels right.”

-- Brian Eno

“The work of art is a scream of freedom.”

-- Christo