Artistic Cycles Quotes

It's all cyclical. Sometimes things just come in packs. At one point you had this collection of great choreographers where you would see eight bars and you would know definitely who did it.

The forties, seventies, and the nineties, when money was scarce, were great periods, when the art world retracted but it was also reborn.

I think over the course of 14 films, I'm returning to a place that I know to tell a story... the same way Spielberg returned to fantasy, Lucas returned to the 'Star Wars' saga, or John Ford returned to the western.

Animation is tremendously resilient. Animation will recover, as art always recovers. There's always cycles of good art.

The growth of art seems to be in cycles, and often its vigorous lifetime is restricted to a century or two. The periods of distinctive drama, Greek, English, Spanish, fall within such a limit; the schools of painting and sculpture likewise; and, in poetry, the Victorian age or the school of Pope will serve as examples.

I think television goes through phases, like other creative arts, where suddenly a group of people are producing exciting work all at once.

The fact is that even art is subject to fashion.

Most things in music go full circle eventually.

There's rises and falls and ups and downs in all music.