Quotes About Art

When you go to a movie, you don't care for one Oscar, really. Do you care if a guy got a Oscar on the shelf or is it a good movie? And, you don't care how much the movie made.

Charlize Theron and Cate Blanchett are very good actresses.

For the most part, however, Lady in the Water comes across as a movie that's too bad to be good, and not bad enough to be so bad that it's good.

I always believe you can't kill good movies, because somebody's in some room and will die unless it gets made.

The fact is that, unless you are very good, most first movies are too long, and you lose your rhythm and your audience over two or three hours.

If you are an artist and you are honest, you are never good enough.

The New York art world readily proves people wrong. Just when folks say that things stink and flibbertigibbet critics wish the worst on us all because we're not pure enough, good omens appear.

I don't think I've made good movies. I've just made some movies more disgusting than others.

A studio is a good place to smoke your pipe.

Dali had a good sense of humor - obviously you could tell just looking at him; he was funny.

I've always been very opinionated, for lack of a better term, about art. Not to sound too arrogant, but I guess I'm a connoisseur of telling people what I think is good and bad.

People who can dance and sing are often very good at comedy.

No picture can be good which deceives by its imitation, for the very reason that nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

Photography was not invented to serve a clearly understood function. There was in fact widespread uncertainty, even among its inventors, as to what it might be good for.

Me and music are not good friends, so I do my best to augment the music part [of my films] and come up with something worth watching.

If I am dissatisfied, it's simply because good photos are few and far between. A good photo is a miracle.

I don't think good films have messages.

The theater's been very good to me and I became Julie Halston through the theater.

I watch many, many, many independent films every year that you see once in a film festival and they're never heard of ever again. Many of them are very, very good.

Just making a good movie is hard to do.

I think that fame only goes to your head if you are not a real artist. If you are a real artist and a good person who loves what they are doing, you are going to be the same person.

I was good friends with Frank Sinatra, I heard Steve Kaufman painting his portrait, so I asked Steve to paint my portrait.

There's a ton of good art and music and writing out there offline among a ton of trash, and the same goes with what's online.

I don't think a lot of really good films get seen.