Unappreciated Art Quotes

If the club was empty, I sang to the chairs.

I've been in so many good movies that I felt like nobody saw; it's a pretty dreadful feeling.

I remember thinking the Nineties were uncool: 'I landed in the generation where nothing happens.'

There will always be times where you think, 'What went wrong? Why wasn't that one more popular?' You can't always figure that out, especially if you think you've done the best job you can do and was interesting to you. I mean, 'My Soul to Take,' I thought should have done much better, and I still like that film a lot.

I always said God was against art and I still believe it. Anything obscene or trivial is blessed in this world and has a reward - I ask for no reward - only to live & to hear my work.

I've made some movies that I really loved that nobody saw.

The movies I'm in not a lot of people see, but it's alright.

My opinions of which of my works are good are vastly different than other people's. There is one that I'm obsessed with but I swear... no one else has ever even commented on it. So I'm a bit shy to draw attention to it.

In Arlington, people would laugh at you if you tried to get people to look at your drawings or listen to your poetry. It was like you thought you were special.

I didn't know I was a good director, and I mean that sincerely. I had done a film a long time ago called 'Cold Around the Heart.' Nobody saw it, and it didn't turn out the way I wanted to.

You hear again and again that audiences want to see movies that are different, and critics say we make the same thing again and again in Hollywood, then you go and make something different, and you get kicked in the gut for it.

I always sang in English. It's just that nobody heard me.

I've done films over the years that basically no one saw. And I'm thankful that some of them haven't been seen.

I think I wrote the first draft of 'Nightmare on Elm Street' in '79. No one wanted to buy it. Nobody. I felt very strongly about it, so I stayed with it and kept paying my assistant and everything. At a certain point, I was literally flat broke.

'All Our Yesterdays' was unquestionably the best work I have ever done. And the reading public stayed away in droves.

All my good movies, nobody sees.

I've done some of my best work in films that fell right through the cracks, so I try to not make career moves but to build a body of work.

I have made a number of movies that I have never seen. It's not a matter of ego. It's a matter of being disappointed. It's really a shame. It's just as difficult to make a movie that no one cares about as to make a hit.

Occasionally I play the music for my mother when she demands to hear it and she always just says, 'Who is that singing? I don't like the singing.' And then she says 'Who's doing all that bumpety-bump noise?' It's all noise backing up horrible singing as far as she's concerned. She's not a show-biz mother.

There's lots of things that can't make it in the world that are worth making. There are lots of great artists who never make it, there are lots of great writers who don't get published - is it still worthwhile? Aren't we glad people are still doing it?

I feel like on 'Free TC,' you know, I feel like I went hard, and not enough people recognized.

Some of the greatest films and television have only been seen by the people that make them. And some of the greatest music is only heard by the people who make it.

I'm not going to write any more novels. I don't want to end up being one of these angry, bitter writers moaning that only three people are reading him. I don't want that.

When a man's verses cannot be understood, nor a man's good wit seconded with the forward child understanding, it strikes a man more dead than a great reckoning in a little room. Truly, I would the gods had made thee poetical.

I write the story that nobody reads. Someday, I'm going to write it in German to see if anyone notices.