Art Quote by James Toback

If Richard Wagner lived today, he would probably work with film instead of music. He already knew back then that the 'Great Art Form'…

— Harmony Korine

I'm delighted with it, because it used to be that films were the lowest form of art. Now we've got something to look down…

— Billy Wilder

I began to see cinema as the perfect combination of so many wonderful art forms - painting, photography, music, dance, theater.

— James Gray

I believe the cinema is one of our principal forms of art. It is an incredibly powerful way to tell uplifitng stories that can…

— Wes Craven

Cinema is a kind of pan-art. It can use, incorporate, engulf virtually any other art: the novel, poetry, theater, painting, sculpture, dance, music, architecture.…

— Susan Sontag

I get people saying, 'Opera is too large a canvas for me. I don't love it. I love movies that feel almost like documentaries,'…

— Jeff Perry

I don't think the audience goes and thinks of the movie as a piece of art - there are some independent people who may…

— Antoine Fuqua

I conceive of the film as a modern art form particularly interesting to the sense of sight. Painting has its own peculiar problems and…

— Hans Richter

Film is an incredible way to express yourself and your vision, as is fashion, but you have to make sure [to] be confident and…

— Tom Ford

“The art of filmmaking is the most influential form of art that has ever existed throughout the history of human artistic endeavors.”

— Abhijit Naskar

I would have to say I might do some stuff, but it's the film that's appealing. I was raised on film. My musical experience…

— Danny Elfman

The movie feels to me like a real work of lovely art.

— Jeff Goldblum