Artistic Traditions Quotes

There must be something about art... almost all cultures have done art. It's a refining of the senses, which are there to keep us alive. As far as we know, no other animals do that.

There is one thing on earth more terrible than English music, and that is English painting.

There ought to be three traditions in the art of humanity: the realistic, the visionary and the wild.

A large share of our art heritage is now derived from peoples whose idea of art was quite other than ours, and even from peoples to whom the very idea of art meant nothing.

The Welsh are the only nation in the world that has produced no graphic or plastic art, no architecture, no drama. They just sing. Sing and blow down wind instruments of plated silver.

I'm sure that the camera is part of European art.

The history of art is the history of revivals.

I got out my jar of ointment. I knew animators who had special containers for the ointment. Crockery, hand-blown glass, mystical symbols carved into the sides. I used an old Mason jar that had once held Grandma Blake's green beans. Larry fished out a peanut butter jar with the label still on it. Extra-crunchy. Yum-Yum.

We should train kids in the music and dance of our legends. That's how we can keep the traditions alive.