Quotes about Art

I could hardly sit through 'Frozen.' There was an attempt to craft a moral message and to build the story around that, instead of building the story and letting the moral message emerge. It was the subjugation of art to propaganda, in my estimation.

To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.

One cannot be a sorcerer all the time. How could one live?

You don't push the button that says "Now I will write something that resonates in time." You don't know. It's what happens after a play is finished.

The highest prize we can receive for creative work is the joy of being creative. Creative effort spent for any other reason than the joy of being in that light filled space, love, god, whatever we want to call it, is lacking in integrity. . .

Life is deep, but our current politics is shallow. The history of this country is like the stuff of great art and philosophy, while our current politics is more on the level of gossip magazines. It is shallow and tawdry, an unworthy vehicle for grappling with the meaning of what we are going through. We need to think more deeply if we're to create more powerfully. We need to focus on a broader understanding of the American story and commit ourselves to rewriting it.

With respect to the requirement of art, the probable impossible is always preferable to the improbable possible.

The greater the length, the more beautiful will the piece be by reason of its size, provided that the whole be perspicuous." (VII)

Every art or applied science and every systematic investigation, and similarly every action and choice, seem to aim at some good; the good, therefore, has been well defined as that at which all things aim.

Again, it is harder to fight with pleasure than with anger, to use Heraclitus' phrase', but both art and virtue are always concerned with what is harder;

Every art and every inquiry, and likewise every action and choice, seems to aim at some good, and hence it has been beautifully said that the good is that at which all things aim.

and Euripides, faulty though he may be in the general management of his subject, yet is felt to be the most tragic of the poets.