Abstract Quote by Sergei Eisenstein

Until film is just as easily accessible as a pen or pencil, then it's not completely an art form. In painting you can just…

— Forest Whitaker

I wanted to make a cinema of ideas, not plots, and to use the same aesthetics as painting, which has always paid great attention…

— Peter Greenaway

I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into…

— Sydney Pollack

Until film is just as easily accessible as a pen or pencil, then it's not completely an art form. In painting, you can just…

— Forest Whitaker

People understand what art is supposed to look like, and so it's easy to make something that looks like art but isn't - especially…

— Lucien Smith

Cinema is the most challenging art form that you as an artist can create. It's easier to paint a painting because you're very alone.…

— Baran Odar

The sense of motion in painting and sculpture has long been considered as one of the primary elements of the composition.

— Alexander Calder

There is also an artistic element which is lead by the film maker. Issues of what is reality and objectivity are as always relevant…

— Ben Edwards

Cinema is an art form.

— Anurag Kashyap

When I see people making 'abstract' painting, I think it's just a dialogue and a dialogue isn't enough. That is to say, there is…

— Philip Guston

Now why should the cinema follow the forms of theater and painting rather than the methodology of language, which allows wholly new concepts of…

— Sergei Eisenstein

The kind of painting which I find exciting is not necessarily representational or non-representational, but it is musical and architectural... Whether this visual relationship…

— Ben Nicholson