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Often the art in a video game is like glorified Thomas Kinkade, but some of it is genuinely enchanting and compelling.

— Tom Bissell

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

While films are a very visual and emotional artistic medium, video games take it one step further into the realm of a unique personal experience.

— Jet Li

I think it reflects well on the state of animation that people are knowledgeable about it and love the fantasy and imagination that goes into it.

— Bill Plympton

For me, art has to have two things to really blow me away: a strong concept and drama.

— Alix Smith

Real art is one of the most powerful forces in the rise of mankind, and he who renders it accessible to as many people as possible is a benefactor of humanity.

— Zoltan Kodaly

For me, art is make-believe. It's enchantment. It's a fable. I'm enjoying that and playing with it. Of course it's serious, and art is serious, but I'm not going to rarefy it.

— Shea Hembrey

Art is a deception that creates real emotions - a lie that creates a truth. And when you give yourself over to that deception, it becomes magic.

— Marco Tempest

Art is a sense of magic.

— Stan Brakhage

I don't believe that art is just for entertainment. I want to create art that is meaningful in some way.

— Carrie Coon

I think that plays are probably the most personal, because it's just me in charge, but sometimes it's just really - I think that there's honor in being a good artist, and there's honor in being a good 'craftsperson.'

— David Henry Hwang

✗Opposing Perspectives

The reason the art world doesn't respond to Kinkade is because none - not one - of his ideas about subject-matter, surface, color, composition, touch, scale, form, or skill is remotely original. They're all cliche and already told.

— Jerry Saltz