art Quotes

I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating.

To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity.

All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.

I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.

Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.

Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.

I started, actually, to make my first animated cartoon in 1920. Of course, they were very crude things then and I used sort of little puppet things.

People still think of me as a cartoonist, but the only thing I lift a pen or pencil for these days is to sign a contract, a check, or an autograph.

Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.