Art Quotes

“All art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too the dreams and visions of my time. Painting is the effort to produce order order in yourself. There is much chaos in me, much chaos in our time.”

-- Otto Dix

“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