Anthony Hopkins Quotes

As a longtime fan of talk radio, I'm very worried about the low opinion that conservative hosts and callers have of the American artist. Art is portrayed as a scam, a rip-off and snow job pushed by snobbish elites.

Art indeed is a term referring to the social source and to the social utility of creative acts.

There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean the kind of poetry written in England forty years ago.

The philistine provides the best definition of art. Anything that makes him rage is first class.

Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.

I think it was Roger Fry who first coined what he took to be a final definition of a work of art, whether it was a painting, building, poem or Hepplewhite chair. He said that the best works of art are finished products that preserve 'a valuable state of mind'.

I am afraid that as evangelicals, we think that a work of art only has value if we reduce it to a tract.

Is the Mona Lisa an 'accurate' representation of the actual human model for the painting? Who knows? Who cares? It's a great piece of art. It moves us. It makes us wonder, makes us gape - finally makes us look inward at ourselves.

I realize that every picture isn't a work of art.

Art is good, bad, boring, ugly, useful to us or not.

To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

Art should be serious, not a joke. I don't like to laugh about art.

But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY.

On one level, of course, the notion of judging films or books or music against each other is completely ridiculous. Who's to say '12 Years A Slave' is a better film than 'The Wolf of Wall Street'? Or that one album in a certain genre is better than another in a completely different genre?

Any work of art that can be understood is the product of journalism.

A beautiful print is a thing in itself, not just a halfway house on the way to the page.

I think that some works are more accessible than others.

In the end, postmodern art is obscene not because it is offensive, but because it is boring.

All good performance pieces have some philosophical validity. That's the difference between mere theater and performance art.

Good art should be polarizing.

We love high-end art, but when you're looking at high-end art in music, a lot of the time, it's appreciated academically, but you can't feel it as much.

If gaming were seen as an art, the important question would be not whether games are good for us but whether they are good, full stop.

By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece.

Everything about art has become problematic; its inner life, its relation to society, even its right to exist.

Art for art's sake? I should think so, and more so than ever at the present time. It is the one orderly product which our middling race has produced. It is the cry of a thousand sentinels, the echo from a thousand labyrinths, it is the lighthouse which cannot be hidden. It is the best evidence we can have of our dignity.