Ilana Mercer Quotes

Perspective in art has receded along with harmony in music: We tend more and more to see the world as a heap of intrinsically meaningless fragments.

Modern dancing is old fashioned.

People won't stop painting, just as they won't stop making music or dancing. This is a facility we have. Children don't stop doing it or having it. On the other hand, it seems we don't need painting anymore. Culture is more interested in entertaining people.

The key thing for an intellectually rigorous writer to come to grips with is the marginalization of literature by more technologically sophisticated and thus more visceral forms.

I was very happy with the success of 'Noise/Funk,' but of course, there is a lot more that I have to say about the dance, about the history, about the people involved with the dance and their history.

I admit TV is a far cry from the films that I started my career with, like 'Ek Doctor Ki Maut.' It's like reading Chekov and then going on to a comic strip.

The market kills more artistic passion than anything else.

Music used to be essential and meaningful, but now it's disposable.

The fine arts once divorcing themselves from truth are quite certain to fall mad, if they do not die.

Art is no longer anything more than a kind of meta-language for banality.

In the days before machinery men and women who wanted to amuse themselves were compelled, in their humble way, to be artists. Now they sit still and permit professionals to entertain them by the aid of machinery. It is difficult to believe that general artistic culture can flourish in this atmosphere of passivity.

Communication without a purpose is artistic masturbation.

Imitation is criticism.

Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade; today it is the reverse.

The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the slow and self-obsessed to become our artists.. Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little.

Today we've learned to celebrate mediocrity. Back in the day we had creative artists; today we have created artists.

The artistic temperament is particularly unhelpful if it is just that, with no end product.

Visuals are as artistic as sounds, so being serious about both isn't a contradiction to me.

I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.

The measure of artistic merit is the length to which a writer is willing to go in following his own compulsions.

The Dance of the Future will have to become again a high religious art as it was with the Greeks. For art which is not religious is not art, it is mere merchandise

The people of your century no longer require the service of composers. A composer is as useful to a person in a jogging suit as a dinsoaur turd in the middle of his runway.

Painting is more important than art.

The purpose of all art is to cause a deep and emotion, also one that is entertaining or pleasing. Out of the depth and entertainment comes value.

Science is moving closer to weaponry, and Art is moving closer to commercialism. And never the twain shall meet.