Creative Significance Quotes

The artist is of no importance. Only what he creates is important, since there is nothing new to be said. Shakespeare, Balzac, Homer have all written about the same things, and if they had lived one thousand or two thousand years longer, the publishers wouldn't have needed anyone since.

If my art has nothing to do with people's pain and sorrow, what is 'art' for?

...combining the concrete and the universal is at the center of what makes art important.

I think art is not an ornament or refinement at the fringes of human intelligence, I think it's at the center. It's at the core.

The importance of the arts to the societies in which they thrive is well documented.

I am essential to the theater.

I do believe architecture, and all art, should be content-driven. It should have something to say beyond the sensational.

Every great work makes the human face more admirable and richer, and that is its whole secret.

I just think that fiction that isn't exploring what it means to be human today isn't art.

If you're going to spend two or three years of your life working on something, you've got to be making the kind of movie that discusses and influences the culture and is engaged in the world you're living in.

The influence of culture and arts is much larger than the influence of economy sometimes.

At this point, in 2008, if you put out a book, a movie, or write a verse, paint a painting, it should have some sort of social value.

If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble.

On lower budget things you're still working collaboratively, but the investment and your level of creative importance is higher on something like this.