Quotes About Art

A book cannot easily be too bad for the general public, but may easily be too good.

My argument would be that I don't think there is much that's genuinely political art that is good art.

I firmly disbelieve that one has to be a tortured soul to write good music.

If our music survives, which I have no doubt it will, then it will because it is good.

I'm a huge Woody Allen fan. Good movie, bad movie, it doesn't matter - I just like his movies.

I don't hold with the notion that only bad books make good movies.

My parents are both really, really funny, and my little sister is a really good painter, and my other sister is a really good writer.

Some really good things kind of swing both ways and I like to see people that can swing really, really, really sad and horrible and terrible and really, really, really beautiful and funny.

I have a very, very good relationship with 10 percent of the audience. The only purpose of art is intimacy. That's the only point.

All good writers express the state of their souls, even (as occurs in some cases of very good writers) if it is a state of damnation.

Hmm... well that would be good, but if you plan on adding that, better include the lanczos option (for good quality).

Poetry is certainly something more than good sense, but it must be good sense, at all events, just as a palace is more than a house, but it must be a house, at least.

What makes a good book and what makes a good movie are totally different things.

Any literature, when it arrives at being good literature, transcends genre.

When language is treated beautifully and interestingly, it can feel good for the body: It's nourishing; it's rejuvenating.

There are so many things that have to go right for a movie to be good that it's a miracle whenever one is.

Good taste" is a virtue of the keepers of museums. If you scorn bad taste, you will have neither painting nor dancing, neither palaces nor gardens.

There is lots of pressure to make a GOOD film. And not just a GOOD film but one that will somehow stand out in the sea of GOOD films.

I don't understand how any good art could fail to be political.

I think a lot of good directors listen to music while they're working. The songs just don't become a part of the film. They're replaced.

As an actor, you think you have to go really far and deep and cry and yell to be good in a scene. Sometimes that's not the point.

Acting, music, painting... it's very subjective. So what I might think is a great actor, you might think is not a very good actor at all.

If something is well-written, it has a chance to be good and if it's not well-written, it will not be good. It could even become popular, but it won't be good.

Bad art is never really enjoyed in the same sense in which good art is enjoyed. It is only "liked": it never startles, prostrates, and takes captive.