Zitat des Tages über Großartige Kunst / Great Art:
Simplicity, clarity, singleness: These are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy as they are also the marks of great art. They seem to be the purpose of God for his whole creation.
The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation.
It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement.
You don't have to have a great art idea - just get to work and something will happen. So that's pretty much my modus operandi and pretty much my principal position, such as it is.
Great art picks up where nature ends.
It should be quite clear that it is possible for unpleasant people who are small in various ways other than in their artistic genius to produce great art. Art and morality have no necessary connection.
Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life.
Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them.
The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.
The pursuit of perfection always implies a definite aristocracy, which is as much a goal of effort as a noble philosophy, an august civil polity or a great art.
No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
I feel when you walk into somebody's apartment on Fifth Avenue or house in Malibu and you see a Basquiat, a Warhol, a Richard Prince, you say to yourself, '$700,000, $2.2 million, $350,000...' To me that is completely uninteresting. I'd rather go to a house where there's great art and I have no idea who the work is by.
There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define; we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit.
I think great art is always ambiguous and can't be pinned down.
All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.
Great art direction is NOT the same thing as great film direction!
The interpretation of dreams is a great art.
To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song.
Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.
Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.
When I ask myself what are the great things we got from the Renaissance, it's the great art, the great music, the science insights of Leonardo da Vinci. Two hundred years from now, when you ask what are the great things that came from this era, I think it's going to be an understanding of the universe around us.
A proof of really great art is that it is generally true - it seldom falls into the misapprehensions to which minor art is liable.
Well, we have certainly produced great art before we did this. In my view, there are any number of areas of government which tax money should not be spent.
To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
It is the mark of great art that its appeal is universal and eternal.
It's important to debunk the myths of Africa being this benighted continent civilized only when white people arrived. In fact, Africans had been creators of culture for thousands of years before. These were very intelligent, subtle and sophisticated people, with organized societies and great art.
Of all the seasons, winter is the most conducive to the great art of dormancy. This art requires an appreciation of semi-consciousness: the beautiful and necessary prelude to sleep - a special pleasure in itself that is all too often neglected, under-valued or looked down upon.
I do not feel any artist can produce great art without putting great personality into it. It is always a piece of you that goes on the screen or the canvass.
Great trouble breeds great art, I think.
All great art is born of the metropolis.
There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence.
I love what Monet, Picasso, Van Gogh and Jesus all said - that love is really the driving principle of the creative act. In fact, they would say that great art is always inspired by love.
People don't really have a relationship with great writing or great production or great art direction or great direction. They just sort of admire it.
Magic touches people in the way great art does. It lets them see the world with new eyes.
Not all artists have a responsibility to be socially or politically aware, but they do have a responsibility to make great art. They have to find some truth and put that in their music.
The message of great art is to disturb.