Roger Waters Quotes

a work that intends to be art must first be entertaining.

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.

As a consumer, I don't create art, but I think whatever the message is, art has to touch you.

My approach to selecting a film is very simple - it should touch my heart.

I think it was Roger Fry who first coined what he took to be a final definition of a work of art, whether it was a painting, building, poem or Hepplewhite chair. He said that the best works of art are finished products that preserve 'a valuable state of mind'.

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

True movies will never be measured by how much they make - they'll be measured by how they make you feel.

I don't know why people see the things that they do. I wouldn't pay to see them, they don't touch me or move me in any way.

Art does not exist for politics, or for instruction- it exists primarily for pleasure, or it is nothing.

Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.

The most compelling narrative, expressed in sentences with which I have no chemical reaction, or an adverse one, leaves me cold.

What is the use of theorizing as to wherein lies the charm that moves us?

If art doesn't move people, then art has failed.

I consider those actors who amaze me are somehow less attractive to me than those actors who move me.

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

I'm not one who divides music, dance or art into various categories. Either something works, or it doesn't.

A film - especially when it's a personal film - is going to hit somebody or it's not. There's nothing you can do about it.

When I saw 'Talk to Her' for the first time, I was crying out loud because I couldn't imagine that I was doing that film.

Art evokes emotion. It doesn't have to be a thing of beauty.

For me, art has to have two things to really blow me away: a strong concept and drama.

What we value about music and literature are the moments that they create in our minds when we encounter them.

Art has never been a popularity contest.

Art is subjective and, as an artiste, if our artistic work is not appreciated by the majority, it hurts.

When you walk past a painting in a museum, if it doesn't make you feel something, then it's probably a failure.

You listen to something like 'Beast Mode,' and it's almost like looking at a pretty painting.