Quotes About Art

In the '80s, there was a fixed costume of a heroine, and not the physical costume, but this is what a heroine is, she is an art prop. She will look beautiful, support the hero, dance, get saved by hero. I didn't ever aim to go there.

Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.

I really don't like plays or movies that service propaganda.

These films however, have ambiguity built into them, because it's too easy in film to make a strident work of propaganda or advertising, which are really the same thing anyway, meaning the message is unmistakable.

It is very easy to make clear what you want a film to say, but I did not wish to engage in overt propaganda, even for the right cause. I wanted to create an experience through the films, something where people could have the freedom of their own response to them.

Art is more engaging that propaganda.

I don't feel that as an artist my job is to offer PR propaganda, whether for the good or for the bad.

I'm not a propaganda machine. I tell things how I see them. When I say, for example, that corruption is not the only thing the West should think about when they think about Nigeria, I'm not saying it doesn't exist but that people have the complete wrong focus. There's music, there's art, there's culture.

I have never made a film to praise or to criticize something. That kind of filmmaking is nothing but propaganda.

To spoon-feed people their comedy is not the proper evolution of the art.

I've always loved opera; it never occurred to me that I would write a proper libretto.

I could never write a proper party song.

I understand that everything is dictated by market value. But cinema is also an art. It saddens me to see great talent languishing for lack of proper roles.

I didn't start to collect records and listen to guitar players properly until I went to art school, when I'd already been playing for five years. So my style was already formed, and that's why I think it's so unique.

Used properly, cinema is the coolest thing in the world.

It takes time to write a script and properly make the film and edit it.

Knowing how to paint and to use one's colors rightly has not any connection with originality. This originality consists in properly expressing your own impressions.

We can even sing off key, but if it's produced properly it can be a hit.

Clothes are not frippery. Properly done, they can be an art form.

I've experienced being properly lost in my desires, and it's really influenced my writing.

It's not like I actually understand the properties of sound.

When you get divorced, you have to go through this awful thing of listing everything you own. When you actually sit down and write the list, you realize that the only good investments are art and property.

The way Hollywood works, you're never sure if their first thought is to make a great film and honor the material or just another business property.

Indeed the three prophecies about the death of individual art are, in their different ways, those of Hegel, Marx, and Freud. I don't see any way of getting beyond those prophecies.