John Ruskin Quotes

For me, content is paramount, and even if I'm to do a potboiler, the content should be excellent.

When it comes down to, it's not about the form, it's about the content.

I can rippity rap, lyrical miracle all day, but if you don't have a message behind it and you not saying nothing, it doesn't make sense.

It's the story that counts.

Style without content is bad style.

The content has to be good; medium doesn't matter to me.

Real art is illumination, it adds stature to life.

I've been taking my time now between projects looking for stuff that has a little bit more substance, that isn't surface. Some of the films that I've done in the past really were surface.

I think music can definitely be art; I also think music can be crap and not be art.

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.

There should really not be anything gratuitous in a work of art. Sometimes what seems as if it's gratuitous may be a passage in which a character is being characterized so that the reader comes to know him or her better.

I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.

Any story that I can consider worth telling is one that you could tell in words.

The story is more important to me than the part.

What counts isn't the frame, it's what you put in it.

Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.

A mathematical proof is beautiful, but when you're finished, it's really only about one thing. A story can be about many things.

Sometimes I make things that people have very strong responses to. Whether that's art, I don't know. That's one of those words that doesn't mean anything. It's why I don't just use words.

It's important to tell stories, and it's a worthwhile thing to do.

It's not about the money; it's about the content.

We can't put up a movie that looks beautiful but doesn't have substance.

The entire vitality of art depends upon its being either full of truth, or full of use; and that, however pleasant, wonderful, or impressive it may be in itself, it must yet be of inferior kind, and tend to deeper inferiority, unless it has clearly one of these main objects, either to state a true thing, or to adorn a serviceable one.

Paper isn’t important. It’s the words on them that are important.

I am afraid that as evangelicals, we think that a work of art only has value if we reduce it to a tract.

Henry James proposed asking of art three modest and appropriate questions: What is the artist trying to do? Does he do it? Was it worth doing?