Moving Art Quotes

When I've heard a piece of music or seen a painting that moves me, it gives me something.

The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one.

Clothes are unique sculptures, dependent on a supporting human form and created to move.

I really think 'Spring Awakening' is unlike any other show. At the end of the day, I hope people are moved by it... whether they love it or they find it uncomfortable. I hope this show can awaken something in them, or reminds them of their childhood, or offers a bit of assurance to what teenagers are going through. It's a great piece of theater.

Only when you are moved by a painting should you buy it. Being moved is what collecting is all about.

First of all I think of puppets as sculpture. They are sculpture that moves. You could label it any way you want, but for me it always starts in my mind as a sculpture.

I just want to make art that connects with people and moves them on an emotional level. Any time I can put out music and place a story behind it and have people watch it and go, 'Wow, I was affected by that,' to me, feels like I've done my job.

The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame.

The difference between fashion and art is that fashion is art in movement.

I love movies; I grew up loving movies. I've always loved movies. I never thought about making movies until I took art classes and then I started studying different artists. As you study paintings, you see light and shadow, of course - Rembrandt, Eugène Delacroix. You start to understand the relationship between people and art, and images. For me, between movies that I watched and art, it was like, I'd love to make moving art. Moving pictures.

I love fashion and appreciate it so much, and I feel like it's moving artwork going down a runway.