Artistic Worth Quotes

That which is not worth contemplating in life, is not worth recreating in art.

Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

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.

My thing is, for artists who are having success, being given an award shouldn't be the thing that defines you in the first place.

One thing about an artist, it doesn't matter how much your work sells for in your life, it's going to sell for ten times more than that after you're dead, and that's what you have to protect.

The great works are produced in such an ecstasy of love that they must always be unworthy of it, however great their worth otherwise.

A work of art wastes away and becomes lustreless in surroundings where it has a price but not a value. It radiates only when surrounded by love. It is bound to wilt in a world where the rich have no time and the cultivated no money. But it never harmonizes with borrowed greatness.

Saying that a great genius is mad, while at the same time recognizing his artistic worth, is like saying that he had rheumatism or suffered from diabetes. Madness, in fact, is a medical term that can claim no more notice from the objective critic than he grants the charge of heresy raised by the theologian, or the charge of immorality raised by the police.

A great novel is worth one thousand films.

But I think if any song can touch the heart, then one should value it.

In the art world, Monet means money.

I don't really care where movies come from as long as they're worth making.

Art is only worth what people will pay for it. Artists do not get paid by the hour.

I am moving towards that zone where I don't want to be a replaceable name. This is my goal. I want to hear from the industry that, 'You are the only one who can do this. We will not go ahead with the project if you don't do this.' And I want to hear from the audience that it is worth watching a film that I have done.

The idea that music is art has been something we advocated for years. And yet it doesn't receive the same treatment as art in the sense of the value of what it is, especially nowadays when it's been devalued and diminished to almost the point that it has to be given away for free.

I wanted to explain that just because I'm rapping in this funny way doesn't mean that I'm not worthy of actually being evaluated as a rapper.

Better a live doggerel than a dead sonnet.

A picture lives by companionship, expanding and quickening in the eyes of the sensitive observer. It dies by the same token. It is therefore risky to send it out into the world. How often it must be impaired by the eyes of the unfeeling and the cruelty of the impotent.

There arose a belief in style - and in banality. Banality encompassed politics, too, because it was a common belief that politics were not worthy of art.

I am guilty of using dollar signs as proof of a work of art's longevity.

Nowadays music is as disposable as a McDonald's wrapper.

To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity.

The idea that popular arts were shallow by definition and the traditional arts were profound was dead, I thought, and I wanted to prove it.

I'm under no illusions about the importance of my work. But if it has any worth, it is that it truly reflects the Brazilian people.

Sometimes films might not work, but you as an actor should keep working. Because no matter how much you panic about how your film didn't work, eventually, when you step out in the real world, there are people who value you as an artist.