Frank Norris Quotes

I wasn't sure pop art or my work would last more than six months.

And I think a painting has such a limited life anyway.

We have to remind people how important arts are. People just don't see it.

You never know when what you do in the arts means something to people, and you never really know if you've been received well.

The value of kitsch exists in its novelty and in its connotations to more legitimate counterparts.

I think that a society lives or dies according to its respect for - for its art.

Take Tom Sachs as an artist. His brain is more brilliant than anything, so of course, anything he puts out over a ten-year period is going to continue to be super relevant. But if you look at some artists, they have one good idea, but unless you know where it's coming from, it's not going to be lasting.

Art is the signature of a generation; artists have a way of defining the times.

I never thought that the music called "jazz" was ever meant to reach just a small group of people, or become a museum thing locked under glass like all the other dead things that were once considered artistic.

Some artists leave remarkable things which, a 100 years later, don't work at all. I have left my mark; my work is hung in museums, but maybe one day the Tate Gallery or the other museums will banish me to the cellar... you never know.

Literary fiction and poetry are real marginalized right now. There's a fallacy that some of my friends sometimes fall into, the ol' "The audience is stupid. The audience only wants to go this deep. Poor us, we're marginalized because of TV, the great hypnotic blah, blah." You can sit around and have these pity parties for yourself. Of course this is bullshit. If an art form is marginalized it's because it's not speaking to people. One possible reason is that the people it's speaking to have become too stupid to appreciate it. That seems a little easy to me.

All art at some time and in some manner becomes mass entertainment, and if it does not it dies and is forgotten.

I approach video games the same way I approach theatre, filmmaking, poetry, or painting. I wish more people would take that point of view. It would help the industry to move on.

I want the ballet world to be given the respect that it deserves and to be seen by more people - for so many to experience the beauty that I've received from the ballet world.

Just because someone said painting is dead doesn't mean that it's a fact or the truth - painting is the soul food of art, in a way.

I believe that the arts of a culture are terribly important and yet almost indefensible.

All art is contemporary art because it had to be made when it was now.

You can make serious pop, you know? There was a time when the best movies were the most popular, and I keep thinking that can happen again.

The value of the arts cannot be measured by its ability to preserve life but rather to enhance existence.

Thinking about the artists I've loved through the years, my favorites are the ones who've made music with cultural, societal and political significance.

You've gotta be careful because art is really important to most people, and you wanna respect that as much as possible. So I live by that rule.

Do cave paintings mean anything? Not really, but I, for one, am happy to have them.

People who die in an untimely way who are artists, somehow that validates their art, we feel. Why culturally we feel that, I don't know.

Art can contextualise and buttress fame. So rather than being antagonistic in the way Fugazi would have had it in 1989, particularly in the present, maybe they are one - they belong to one another.

That's the definition of popularity. Something that literally resonates with many, many people.