Quotes About Art

To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare to fail... failure is his world and the shrink from it desertion

If one cannot accept failure and scorn, how is he to make his art? It's like wanting to go to heaven without dying.

Rationality is what we do to organize the world, to make it possible to predict. Art is the rehearsal for the inapplicability and failure of that process.

There is no such thing as failure for an artist, unless failure is the refusal to attempt, the unwillingness to dream.

Shakespeare's so bloody difficult, and I don't like failure. You can fail on film, but there's nobody actually there in the flesh to watch you failing.

Reconcile the loss of the painting - no matter how many times it may happen - with the joy of beginning again.

The critical image... must not only fail to capture its referent, but show its failure.

People will still make great art, but I think it's good to assume you will always be a failure. People were believing the opposite.

Imagine a painter crucified by his subject!

Poets never die, I thought. They just fail in the end.

Racist writing is a craft failure.

I think a film is a failure if it doesn't have an emotional effect. That's the film's failure. Not if it doesn't deliver a message, but if it doesn't have emotional effect or visceral effect.

To interest is the first duty of art; no other excellences will ever begin to compensate for failure in this.

Abstraction is an exercise in a pre-assured failure. It is a futile attempt to communicate the non-communicable

Fall makes me think that if I fail horribly at this art thing, and then fail horribly with this writing thing, I'll go run a pumpkin patch.

To say that a thing is beautiful is simply an act of faith, not a measurement on some kind of scale.

All my own small perception of beauty both in majesty and simplicity is founded.

That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.

The figure is still the only thing I have faith in in terms of how much emotion it's charged with and how much subject matter is there.

Therefore art means: you have to believe, to have faith, that is, cultivate vision.

I have this embedded faith in the process through which films of a certain type get discovered on longer timelines.

Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom.

Art and the saints are the greatest apologetics for our faith.

Honestly, I think a good film is spiritual, regardless of whether its subject is faith.