Quotes About Art

All great novels, all true novels, are bisexual.

Always keep your ego in check and not be afraid to listen. Listening is a great art form.

It's a great feeling to think that I can be a friend to so many people through my movies.

The Internet is both great and terrible. As a source of information, a tool for delivering music and art, it's great. But spamming ads and piracy of music is terrible. It's stealing.

I think design, to a degree, is more generous and more humanistic than art, though great art can move us more.

With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.

The great artist is the simplifier.

I think great art is always ambiguous and can't be pinned down.

But I was, and still am, an avid reader and so when I first started I chose to photograph many of the great writers in this country to try and earn a living.

Great art is horseshit, buy tacos.

To me, seeing a really great comedian is a bit like watching a musician or a poet.

Great food, like all art, enhances and reflects a community's vitality, growth and solidarity. Yet history bears witness that great cuisines spring only from healthy local agriculture.

Every great work of art has two faces, one towards its own time and one towards future, towards eternity.

The world has lost a great musician who will always be an inspiration to me and those at OBEY GIANT.

We, as film-makers, are privileged. We can make people cry or laugh. We can make them think and feel. It is a great privilege and a great responsibility.

I've never believed that pop music is escapist trash. There's always a darkness in it, even amidst great pop music.

But I always loved songs with great lyrics.

It is the mark of great art that its appeal is universal and eternal.

Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.

I never will believe there is such a thing as a great actor.

No artist produces great art by a deliberate attempt to express his own personality.

When theres no sense of possessiveness or ownership in the artistic process, great things happen.

Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.

There has never been a great film unless it was created in the spirit of the experimental filmmaker.