Quotes About Art

Most good art is left wing. It's a moot point whether there is any good right-wing art.

I used to paint and I used to draw, and I probably would have loved to have been a portrait painter if I'd been good enough, but I really wasn't good enough.

I think all good art is outsider art.

There's such good writing now on television and I don't see a lot of great writing on films sadly.

I cannot tell good art from bad art. I have no eye for it.

If it weren't for the Japanese and the Germans, we wouldn't have any good war movies.

Passion paralyzes good taste.

I'm not a very good predictor in any area of art, particularly my own. I don't know how to evaluate that.

If Picasso walked into Disney looking for a job, they would throw him out on the street. Couldn't draw good enough.

Acting doesn't feel good. It's not comfortable to feel all this stuff, it's not.

Us visual thinkers like me, be good at things like industrial design, graphics, art, those kind of jobs.

It doesn't matter if it's black-and-white. If a movie has a story that is filled with emotion, you can have as much pleasure, and it's very good for cinema.

If there was no other proof of the infinite patience of God, a very good one could be found in His toleration of the pictures that are painted of Him.

Even films without music are inspiring, as I think a good story is full of changes, different paces, and ideas.

I was born in Kansas City, Missouri, and I do know from what my parents tell me that I was always interested in art, although not very good at it.

We both [with Alixandra Kolesky MacKenzie] got into ceramics, you might say, by the back door. Looking back on it, I think this was a very good thing.

Film is an editor's medium. You can create very good raw material and they can make it horrible, or you can do not so well and they can make it beautiful. You don't really know.

Plenty of bad movies are very successful, and plenty of good movies are not. And distribution is so crazy, some films won't even get their day in court.

I think it is owing to the good sense of the English that they have not painted better.

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

Most arts have produced miracles, while the art of government has produced nothing but monsters.

Everyone thinks the Chinese government selected me. Never ever. I was selected by Herzog and de Meuron.

The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. Authority over him and his art is ridiculous.

As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government.