Quotes by Artists

I personally am not very interested in awards or the awards circuit. Makoto Shinkai

Circuit Am Very Interested Personally Awards

A peculiar fact about termite-tapeworm-fungus-moss art is that it goes always forward, eating its own boundaries, and, likely as not, leaves nothing in its path other than the signs of eager, industrious, unkempt activity. Manny Farber

Before seeing 'The Pride of the Yankees,' you may or may not know that the Yankees referred to are the ones who win the World Series each year. After seeing it you will find that the reference is indirect. Manny Farber

There is something I feel when I animate something; you can never really understand the character you're animating unless you've had the opportunity to turn it around. Once you've done that, you know it is a three-dimensional object. Marc Davis

Character You Opportunity Unless Once Object Three-Dimensional Something Animate Never Animating Had Feel Know Around Understand Done Turn Really

Animation had been done before, but stories were never told. Marc Davis

Before Never Had Animation Were Been Done Stories

His feeling was the name Walt Disney represented all of us. Walt was hanging by his teeth financially and really I think he was for most of his career. Not at all like today. Marc Davis

Today Feeling Think Teeth Financially He Name Like Most His Walt Walt Disney Hanging Us Really Disney Career

Later, my father died up in Marysville. So, my mother and I got in the car and came down to Hollywood. Marc Davis

Mother Car Father Down Later Got Came Up Died Hollywood

My father was something of a rainbow-chaser. Marc Davis

Father Something Dad

Dada was an extreme protest against the physical side of painting. It was a metaphysical attitude. Marcel Duchamp

Attitude Painting Side Extreme Physical Protest Metaphysical Against

The curious thing about the Ready-Made is that I've never been able to arrive at a definition or explanation that fully satisfies me. There's still magic in the idea, so I'd rather keep it that way than try to be exoteric about it. Marcel Duchamp

Alchemy is a kind of philosophy: a kind of thinking that leads to a way of understanding. Marcel Duchamp

Understanding Thinking Philosophy Way Kind Leads Alchemy

The word 'art' interests me very much. If it comes from Sanskrit, as I've heard, it signifies 'making.' Now everyone makes something, and those who make things on a canvas with a frame, they're called artists. Formerly, they were called craftsmen, a term I prefer. We're all craftsmen, in civilian or military or artistic life. Marcel Duchamp

Life Art Me Word Military Frame Everyone Those Something Civilian Term Make Makes Making Were Heard Very Artistic Craftsmen Artists Canvas Prefer Much Interests Who Now Things

I haven't been in the Louvre for twenty years. It doesn't interest me because I have these doubts about the value of the judgments which decided that all these pictures should be presented to the Louvre instead of others which weren't even considered. Marcel Duchamp

I like living, breathing better than working... Each second, each breath is a work which is inscribed nowhere, which is neither visual nor cerebral. It's a kind of constant euphoria. Marcel Duchamp

Work Better Breath Living Kind Neither Visual Constant Like Nor Than Which Breathing Cerebral Working Euphoria Each Nowhere Second

In the 'Nude Descending a Staircase,' I wanted to create a static image of movement: movement is an abstraction, a deduction articulated within the painting, without our knowing if a real person is or isn't descending an equally real staircase. Marcel Duchamp

Painting Our Static Abstraction Knowing Equally Within Without Real Articulated Person Real Person Movement Wanted Staircase Create Deduction Descending Image

When I put a bicycle wheel on a stool, the fork down, there was no idea of a 'ready-made' or anything else. It was just a distraction. I didn't have any special reason to do it, or any intention of showing it or describing anything. Marcel Duchamp

Everything important that I have done can be put into a little suitcase. Marcel Duchamp

Important Suitcase Everything Put Done Little

Distortion came first from the fauves, who, in turn, were under the strong influence of primitive art. Marcel Duchamp

Art Strong First Distortion Primitive Came Were Influence Turn Who

'Art or anti-art?' was the question I asked when I returned from Munich in 1912 and decided to abandon pure painting or painting for its own sake. I thought of introducing elements alien to painting as the only way out of a pictorial and chromatic dead end. Marcel Duchamp