Brad Bird Quotes

Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.

Art is the objectification of feeling, and the subjectification of nature.

I think that there is not really a difference between a 'Peanuts' and a beautiful Renaissance painting. There is something very romantic in the 'Peanuts' - it's at the same level of a novel or a Jane Austen story or a beautiful embroidered rose fabric. It is a piece of romanticism.

You look at somebody's work as an actor and you can see their emotional life being fed into it and you can kind of feel them through it.

the arts are life accelerated and concentrated.

A Gustave Courbet portrait of a trout has more death in it than Rubens could get in a whole Crucifixion.

Works of art are of an infinite loneliness and with nothing so little to be reached as with criticism.

... the image of feeling created by artists, in every kind of art -- plastic, musical, poetic, balletic -- serves to hold the reality itself for our labile and volatile memory, as a touchstone to test the scope of our intellectual constructions.

All paintings start out of a mood, out of a relationship with things or people, out of a complete visual impression. To call this expression abstract seems to me often to confuse the issue. Abstract means literally to draw from or separate. In this sense every artist is abstract . . . a realistic or non-objective approach makes no difference. The result is what counts.

Poetry has an indirect way of hinting at things. Poetry is feminine. Prose is masculine. Prose, the very structure of it, is logical; poetry is basically illogical. Prose has to be clear-cut; poetry has to be vague - that's its beauty, its quality. Prose simply says what it says; poetry says many things. Prose is needed in the day-to-day world, in the marketplace. But whenever something of the heart has to be said, prose is always found inadequate - one has to fall back to poetry.

I sometimes find it half a sin, To put to words the grief i feel, For words like nature,half reveal, and half conceal the soul within.

I am unable to make any distinction between the feeling I get from life and the way I translate that feeling into painting.

What is drawing? Not once in describing the shape of the mass did I shift my eyes from the model. Why? Because I wanted to be sure that nothing evaded my grasp of it... My objective is to test to what extent my hands already feel what my eyes see.

I write emotional algebra.

Art is born out of an ill-designed world.

Music falls on the silence like a sense / A passion that we feel, not understand.

Art is not only about something; it is something. A work of art is a thing in the world, not just a text or commentary on the world.

One should be a painter. As a writer, I feel the beauty, which is almost entirely colour, very subtle, very changeable, running over my pen, as if you poured a large jug of champagne over a hairpin.

When Michael Werner saw a painting of mine, such as Die grosse Nacht im Eimer, which back then nobody wanted and everybody thought was ridiculous, he realized that this was the right provocation, that it represented the feeling of the times in the right way.

It is all very well for people with fine arts degrees, but for ordinary people like myself, we want a statue to look like the person.

Music contains a whole gamut of experience, from sensuous elements to ultimate intellectual harmonies.

Art has a unique capacity to take one or other facet of the message and translate it into colors, shapes and sounds which nourish the intuition of those who look and listen.

We depict hatred, but it is to depict that there are more important things. We depict a curse, to depict the joy of liberation.

Art is a kind of artificial memory and the pain which attends all serious art is a sense of that factitiousness.

Then you learn about composition, you learn about old masters, you form certain ideas about structure. But the inhuman activity of trying to make some kind of jump or leap, where , the painting is always saying, 'What do you want from me? I can only be a painting.' You have to go from part to part, but you shouldn't see yourself go from part to part, that's the whole point.