Artistic Damage Quotes

The industry is a menace to artists.

In our world, in which religious images are losing their meaning, in which our customs are getting more and more secular, we are losing our sense of the eternal. I think it's a loss that has done a great deal of damage to modern art. Painting is a return to origins.

But fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art.

I forsee a marked deterioration in American musicand a host of other injuries to music in its artistic manifestations, by virtue—or rather by vice—of the multiplication of the various music-reproducing machines

English artists are usually entirely ruined by residence in Italy.

Oh god, I'd just hate it if a certain dramaturg got a hold of a Pinter play, for example, which are all mystery and all music. That's how the life get's sucked out of plays.

Is Wagner a human being at all? Is he not rather a disease? He contaminates everything he touches - he has made music sick.

I don't know about doing a sequel. I think you can retroactively damage a product by adding to it.

Poetry at its best can do you a lot of harm.