Brigid Brophy Quotes

While art may instruct as well as please, it can nevertheless be true art without instructing, but not without pleasing.

Variety is more than a means of avoiding boredom, since art is more than an entertainment of the senses.

I feel like there's such a responsibility, when you make a film, to enlighten people, to make them think, to make them laugh, or even just to be entertaining.

Entertainment provides relief. Art provokes engagement.

Art doesn't have to do anything. It just has to be there for the fierce pleasure we take in doing it.

Art has to offer something other than stylized despair.

It doesn't matter one damn bit whether fashion is art or not. You don't question whether an incredible chef is an artist or not-his cakes are delicious and that's all that matters.

Some people flinch when you talk about art in the context of the needs of society thinking you are introducing something far too common for a discussion of art. Why should art have a purpose and a use? Art shouldn't be concerned with purpose and reason and need, they say. These are improper. But from the very beginning, it seems to me, stories have indeed been meant to be enjoyed, to appeal to that part of us which enjoys good form and good shape and good sound.

The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.

I think good art should always be entertaining, or at least give pleasure of some sort. And my chief goal as a writer has always been to tell a good story and give my readers a good time.

The point is to expand the scope of what a movie can possibly mean or be, to get people involved because they're artistic or understand the point of the material, not just because they fit a certain bill aesthetically.

The cinema is there to heighten the imagination; I have always tried to make sure it does so.

Don't you know that every perfect life would mean the end of art?

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.

For art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments' 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.

I love anything that really pushes the envelope as far as where it takes your mind. When it's well written and brings you into a world that possibly could be, I think that's the most entertaining for me - to see something that could actually take place and causes you to think.

Art's everything we hope life would be, a lot of times.

Be it films or shows or plays, it's the content that matters the most.

I love telling stories, I love entertaining, and I love my job.

I've always been fascinated with storytelling.

Cinema is not just a side show - it is something which is much deeper than that. It is a form of art which needs to be respected.

I don't see art as entertainment.

Didacticism is the death of art.

The storyteller and poet of our time, as in any other time, must be an entertainer of the spirit in the full sense of the word, not just a preacher of social or political ideals. There is no paradise for bored readers and no excuse for tedious literature that does not intrigue the reader, uplift him, give him the joy and the escape that true art always grants.