Quotes About Art

I do not know what evil is when it comes to art. I only know what is good art and what is bad art.

In my theater days I assumed that you had to get rid of yourself to do a character well, and I don't think I was a very good actor when I did that.

I don't think you have to struggle to make good art. I think you have to be passionate to make good art. You have to believe in what you're doing. It just comes from when you lie awake at night.

If you take a really good book, then the potential is for a really good film. But you've got to get it right.

It's interesting - a lot of good actors are good mimes. But I'm terrible. If I tried to do an impression, nobody would know what I was doing.

I'm not a very good painter, but I'm learning a lot.

I like a drama. And I think that's the basis of good films, or good plays, is to have a nice drama.

I like the process of writing songs. It makes me feel good.

Good writers hate bad writing but hating bad writing doesn't make you good. Writing badly does.

If the point of good art is to be somewhat subtle then it's not going to catch everyone.

I don't believe that crime, danger and poverty make for good art. That's bullshit.

The photograph isn't good enough. It's not real enough.

You've seen the first issue and what happened in the last page. Some pretty awful stuff. I don't know why I seem to be very good at drawing it!

Holland is very good at avant garde, probably due to the Dutch character. Good at design. Experimentation sometimes works here very well.

The 'human situation,' in all its guises, is what good films are all about, and technical skill counts for nothing if it is used only to manufacture films which have little to do with humanity.

I've made six or seven good films. The others, not so good.

I can't imagine how many first performances I've done, perhaps 500. Some of them have been very good, and some of course very bad.

Certainly, a lot of the films I've worked on have ended up good movies, but they haven't always been the best experiences

Even if something within me is ugly, writing is a pretty good place to play with that thing and to begin to really see it.

Bement was a very good teacher but he was a very poor painter. I guess he wasn't a painter at all. He had no courage and I believe that to create one's own world in any of the arts takes courage.

I know what a good movie is.

I would rather do really good French films than 'American Pie.'

When you start thinking as far as what's a good photo, unfortunately everything starts looking like a good photo.

When you have a good movie, it's hard to categorize it. It's everything. It makes you laugh, makes you cry and makes you think.