Walt Disney Quotes

As a consumer, I don't create art, but I think whatever the message is, art has to touch you.

It [abstract art] should be enjoyed just as music is enjoyed after a while you may like it or you may not.

Art has nothing to do with taste. Art is not there to be tasted

Beauty plus pity -- that is the closest we can get to a definition of art.

If the mystical lovers of the arts, who consider all criticism dissection and all dissection destruction of enjoyment, thought logically, an exclamation like "Goodness alive!" would be the best criticism of the most deserving work of art. There are critiques which say nothing but that, only they do so more extensively.

The first impression of a work of art is its otherness from reality.

For everyone who, having no artistic sense-that is to say, no submission to subjective reality-may have the knack of reasoning about art till doomsday, especially if he be, in addition, a diplomat or financier in contact with the 'realities' of the present day, is only too ready to believe literature is an intellectual game which is destined to gradually be abandoned as time goes on.

I will try to account for the degree of my aesthetic emotion. That, I conceive, is the function of the critic.

I realize that every picture isn't a work of art.

Art is always good. It just depends if you like or not.

There are so many reactions to art that make sense to me - but 'ick' means something.

Everybody has a favorite song, but everybody don't have a favorite painting.

The claims I'm making for art are simply the claims that we naturally make around music or around poetry. We're much more relaxed around those art forms. We're willing to ask, 'How could this find a place in my heart?'

When you walk past a painting in a museum, if it doesn't make you feel something, then it's probably a failure.

The object of art like every other product creates a public which is sensitive to art and enjoys beauty.

All great art ... creates in the beholder not self-satisfacti on but wonder and awe. Its great liberation is to lift us out of ourselves.

The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.

Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.

I'll buy a bottle for anyone who can tell me what makes a picture beautiful!

The aim of the painting is that the eye should find out what it likes.

I don't how I can describe the quality that is only found in art (be it music, literature, painting, or whatever), this quality, it's just there, and it endures.

The paintings of Francis Bacon to my eye are very beautiful. The paintings of Bosch or Goya are to my eye very beautiful. I've also stood in front of those same paintings with people who've said, 'let's get on to the Botticellis as soon as possible.' I have lingered, of course.

You can have an art experience in front of a Rembrandt... or in front of a piece of graphic design.

Much of appreciating art or music is really the interpretation of the listener. To a certain extent it's projection - it's what people need or lack in themselves that they then put upon these people that they admire.

Art to be art must soothe.