Jack Bowman Quotes

Theater publicly reveals the human condition through appealing to both intellect and emotion. Architecture, whether lowly or exalted, can do the same.

Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.

I don't believe that art is just for entertainment. I want to create art that is meaningful in some way.

Music and language are a vital element. We, as actors and directors, offer it to people who want to experience it. Sometimes the actual meaning is less important than the words themselves.

Wrestling is like any form of drama or pretty much any form of entertainment - some people understand this about forms of entertainment really intuitively when they're younger, and others would have to be really not very intelligent for a long time until we realize that every human mood is an art.

Works of art are like a Trojan horse. Under the surface is always some artist's deeply held philosophy on their view of the world. But on the other hand, you do not want to make it feel like medicine. You do not want to make it feel like an afternoon TV special where you're trying to hammer a message into someone's head.

Theater is where you go to find out something new that you don't know. It goes through somebody's brain and comes out in a comprehensible way that is beautiful, that's really interesting.

A work of art rests its merits in traditional qualities. It may constitute a remarkable feat in craftsmanship; it may be a searching study of psychological states; it may be a nostalgic glance backward; it may be any one of an infinite number of concepts, none of which may have any possible bearing upon its degree of newness.

A picture, to be an interesting picture, must be more than a picture, otherwise it is only a reproduction of an object, and not an object of value in itself.

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

I know that the arts are important. I'm not denying that, but I can't associate myself with all the claptrap that goes on around it.

There's definitely a visual aspect and an emotional aspect to a song. And that harks back, for me, to theater.

I try and create for the audience something that relates to real-life experience.

It is a peculiar art form, but I think it's a necessary art form - and I do believe it's a noble art form.

There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.

To do art, one thing should always remember - subjects of people in misery have deep meanings.

Great art, the more specific you are, the more universal it becomes, and that's the thing that I loved about 'The Wire.'

The key to good art is to make something that means something to you.

Movie, being an art form, should have artistic value and should do justice to the artistes.

A film is not a vehicle to accuse, or to relay a specific message. If we reduce a film to this, we lose all hope for cinema to ignite a richer conversation.

Art is about emotion; if art needs to be explained it is no longer art.

Painting doesn't have a function, not in the way that music or film does... I mean, you can dance to music. Music can be used for a soundtrack, so it has a function in that sense, beyond itself. But painting doesn't... But I do believe that painting has a purpose.

But theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of communication with an audience. That's why I call it the most social of the various art forms.

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.

We do not judge great art. It judges us.