Diane Paulus Quotes

The gallery is generating work for the masses.

We have found a way to bring to millions of people an art that they can understand.

I don't want to be an art-house movie guy, where people who go to film school can discuss your work, but people who haven't studied cinema can't appreciate it. By the same token, I don't want to be the guy who's making this commercial pap that people lap up but that disappears the minute you leave the theater.

Pop doesn't really look back. It can't. What makes pop work is simplicity.

For some critics we might be uncool on account of our popularity.

Whatever is popular deserves attention.

The value of kitsch exists in its novelty and in its connotations to more legitimate counterparts.

TV is art. It's mass art. It's accessible to the masses.

Some people think big audiences are crass and that, say, a comedy that appeals to a wide audience is pandering. Other people would argue that you could say that about Moliere.

Art should be for everyone, not just the rich.

Too often, it is presumed that young people will only like art that they can immediately relate to. Working-class students may be steered towards popular culture like hip-hop, new media and film on the basis that they will find older art forms such as opera or ballet irrelevant.

You have to be respectful of pop culture, because people interpret it in the way they want.

Popular culture is a contradiction in terms. If it's popular, it's not culture.

Popular sings are the only art form that describes the temper of the times.

The cult of the hero is the absolutely necessary complement of the massification of society. We see the automatic creation of this cult in connection with champion athletes, movie stars, and even such abstractions as Davy Crockett in the United States....

Certainly, the Hollywood cinema, there's almost nothing of interest coming out of there.

Artists should agitate and democratize their own work, but they should also work to democratize the arts themselves.

I like the elitism of the art world. I think art for the people is a terrible idea.

There will always be kids in every generation that understand that Lady Gaga is not music, it's theater.

I don't think you're selling out by allowing the masses to love your art. The only curse is that, when you get so big, sometimes people forget to look at the music.

There is such a flood of TV shows, movies, video games, comics, and books, but somehow 'Avatar' is still being discovered by each new generation.

When classical singers or dancers look at cinema with derision, I have half a heart to tell them that they're wrong. They're losing a platform.

Pop music - deriving from the word 'popular' - for me, it's just great to be a part of music that reaches a large amount of people and not just a small amount of people.

Norman Rockwell - even though we think of him as a great American artist, in a lot of museums he has not garnered that kind of attention. And it's this kind of accessibility that we're trying to bring - not looking down on any art.

You can make serious pop, you know? There was a time when the best movies were the most popular, and I keep thinking that can happen again.