Quotes About Artform

Music is an artform, and I always though art was beyond censorship. I thought this was a common view. Apparently, I was wrong.

Screenwriting is not an artform, it is a punishment from God.

I hope that film is going to stay as an artform and that people won't forget that there are good movies also to be made.

On auteur theory: never has a critical movement so thoroughly ignored the one-hit wonders of its artform. Imagine music without these gems—half of pop rock would be gone and musicologists would have nothing to dig up!

It's commonplace to describe theater—the activity underpinning the very existence of this book—as a collaborative artform in which the author's words are shaped, embodied and adapted by actors, directors, producers, designers, musicians and above all, audiences.

It's never going to be very mainstream. One reason is that poetry requires concentration, both on the part of the writer and the reader. But it's kind of unkillable, poetry. It's our most ancient artform and I think it's more relevant today than ever, because it's one person saying what they really believe.

Old Scully, who according to Jennifer, hadn't the imagination to think the worst. Something she said once, as though neurosis was an artform.

It is easy to misunderstand what a comedy song is, or what its potential is. I'm used to musical comedy being maligned as an easy artform.

I feel like animation's stagnant. There's not much that's trying to push the artform, and so, for me, I'm way too critical about it.

I've turned arrogance into an artform, where it's so absurd that it becomes comedy. But I've never done anything to hurt anybody or steal from anyone.

There's a need to keep the history of an artform going, parallel with the new work that's being done.

It costs a great deal of money to do a musical, and the more money involved, the more big business influences the artform.