Quotes About Art

I think good art happens on that edge between comfortable and in a lot of pain, you know what I mean?

Aligning my music with something that feels morally and politically passionate to me feels good.

It was a style not of perfection, but warmth. Even mistakes had a good feeling about them

If there ever is a struggle, making a good movie will always supersede the need to be noble.

Whatever I do, I like making good movies because I like to watch good movies. As long as I can do that, I'm happy.

If only art were as rare as good taste.

Writing can come naturally to some. Still, when it comes to good writing, this is true: Easy reading is damn hard writing.

When things get tough... Make good art.

There's not much high and low culture any more: there's just mingling streams of art and what matters is whether it's good art or bad art.

I feel like you should always be questioning the genre you're doing. If you're doing something that sounds like a lullaby, it can be good to make it about someone stalking someone.

I think a good movie is a good movie whether that falls into a genre or not.

One can do good things without being very much of a harmonist or a colourist. It is sufficient to have a sense of art - and this sense is doubtless the horror of the bourgeois.

It's as serious as anyone ever gets, you know. It's just words. It's just good poetry.

Before digital, I spent thirty years shooting color transparencies, which are very unforgiving of exposure. A half stop can make or break a good photo on slide film.

The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.

There is only good art and mediocre art.

All bad art is the result of good intentions.

Good-bye to the lies of the poets. [Lat., Valeant mendacia vatum.]

Film is such a very good tool for communicating emotions, and all designers and creative people look to inspire an emotional response.

To me, there's two types of songs, good and bad. And I just like to stick with the good ones.

It feels very good to sing in Russian. It feels so good inside my body.

Trouble is said to be good for an artist's soul but almost never is.

Primitive, naive drawing can also be good drawing but it's hard to pull off. I don't think most submitters realize that.

I think people direct good films when they feel personal to them, not because it's a famous book or something. It has to something move over that and somehow become personal to the director.