George Lucas Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• People who alter or destroy works of art and our cultural heritage for profit or as an exercise of power are barbarians.

  George Lucas

  Art, Real, Inspiration

  "George Lucas offers a compelling argument against George Lucas" by Sean O'Neal, news.avclub.com. September 1, 2011.

• People look at technology as sometimes an end to things, and it isn't an end in certain cases. In the movie business, the act of creating in the art form of movies, the craft of movies is completely technical, and that's all it is.

  George Lucas

  Art, Technology, Creating

  "Cinematic Phenomenon". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 19, 1999.

• The best way to truly understand narrative art is to experience it.

  George Lucas

  Art, Narrative, Way

• If I'd have gone to art school, or stayed in anthropology, I probably would have ended up back in film ... Mostly I just followed my inner feelings and passions ... and kept going to where it got warmer and warmer, until it finally got hot ... Everybody has talent. It's just a matter of moving around until you've discovered what it is.

  George Lucas

  Art, Moving, Passion

• Kurosawa was one of film's true greats. His ability to transform a vision into a powerful work of art is unparalleled.

  George Lucas

  Art, Powerful, Greatness

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• Art is the retelling of certain themes in a new light, making them accessible to the public of the moment.

  George Lucas

  Art, Light, Moments

  1988 In the NewYork Times, 9 Jun.

• All art is dependent on technology because it's a human endeavour , so even when you're using charcoal on a wall or designed the proscenium arch, that's technology .

  George Lucas

  Art, Wall, Technology

• I wanted to transfer to an art school, and ended up going to the University of Southern California. They had a cinematography school, and I said "Well, that's sort of like photography, maybe that will be interesting." And once I started in that department, I found what it was that I loved and was good at.

  George Lucas

  Photography, Art, School

  "Cinematic Phenomenon". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 19, 1999.

• I don't ever see movies by myself. I always see them with other people because I want to know what works. I want to know where they laugh. I want to know where they don't laugh. I want to know what they think about it afterwards because in the end that's what the art that I'm working with is.

  George Lucas

  Art, Thinking, People

  "Cinematic Phenomenon". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 19, 1999.

• I was going to go to a four-year college and be an anthropologist or to an art school and be an illustrator when a friend convinced me to learn photography at the University of Southern California. Little did I know it was a school that taught you how to make movies! It had never occurred to me that I'd ever have any interest in filmmaking.

  George Lucas

  Photography, Art, School

  "The Force". Interview with Katie Lucas, www.seventeen.com. Jun 29, 2010.

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