Quotes About Art

For whatever crispness and animation my writing has I give some credit to the cartoonist manque.

The best way to write a song is to think of something else and then the song kind of creeps in.

Actors and actresses have done a lot of films with their legs, with their arms, with the whole crew and the camera. Why shouldn't they be as good as a first-assistant director who has made three or four films? They've done it with their body!

'Russian Ark,' I adore - I almost cried at the end of that film, it's so beautiful.

I don't know if I've ever screamed or cried for a band.

It's not that the creative act and the critical act are simultaneous. It's more like you blurt something out and then analyze it.

I always consider myself as good as my last film. I tend to analyse my work very critically.

I did two movies that were arthouse movies; they were critically successful but made no money at all... but after making those movies, I thought, 'I wouldn't watch my own movies when I was 16, and my buddies where I came from wouldn't watch my movies, because they were boring.'

Music is art, and once you become an artist, you need to learn how to accept criticism.

A lot of people are intimated by art, but it's something to be revered beyond criticism.

I'm an artist, and I like art that gets people talking, good or bad. Criticism is good, too.

As a director, you're open to any kind of criticism.

Once people write criticism about something - and even in 1967 I was far from alone - they're assuming it's art, and art is supposed to last.

If people aren't creating literature, there would be nothing for people to criticize.

It is not like I want all my films to run for more than 100 days. But I can't stand it when my movie is criticized.

All critics should be assassinated.

We don't make movies for critics, since they don't pay to see them anyhow.

I don't care what other critics say, I only hope to be played.

A film cannot make it into the culture without the support of critics.

I don't mean to be oily, but critics are very much part of the theatre.

I don't make films for critics.

I don't think I can create films just for critics. It's just not me.

I do not why the critics don't like my work. I guess I do not make films that they like.

Music is meant to cross boundaries.