Uta Hagen Quotes

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'.

Those who are concerned with the arts are often asked questions, not always sympathetic ones, about the use or value of what they are doing. It is probably impossible to answer such questions directly, or at any rate to answer the people who ask them.

The end-purpose of all art is enjoyment!

I don't see art as entertainment.

When you start to think of the arts as not this thing that is going to get you somewhere in terms of becoming an artist or becoming famous or whatever it is that people do, but rather a way of making being in the world not just bearable, but fascinating, then it starts to get interesting again.

The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin his work.

The purpose of art is always, ultimately, to give pleasure - though our sensibilities may take time to catch up with the forms of pleasure that art in a given time may offer.

A work of art, so far as it is a work of art, cannot - whatever the artist's personal intention - advocate anything at all.

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

To awaken human emotion is the highest level of art.

I don't put a great deal of stock in art trophies.

I don't believe that artists really are interested in money. That's not the motivation for art.

A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.

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.

If you make a record, you should ask yourself, 'Did it make someone cry, in a good way, not a bad way?' There should almost be subjective emotional criteria for evaluating work, instead of just profitability.

As soon as any art is pursued with a view of money, then farewell, in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, all hope of genuine good work.

The beauty of art is that it allows you to slow down, and for a moment, things that once seemed unfamiliar become precious to you.

The arts are not a way to make a living.

Didacticism is the death of art.

Art is not about objects of high monetary exchange. It's about reasserting our firsthand experience in present time.

Art, if it is successful, needs no explanation.

There's no art where there's no fee.

Works of art must persist as objects of contemplation.

Part of my gradual education of myself has been to think that there is a deep relationship between the nature of the creature and the worth of the art.

I don't think [price] reflects if the work is good or bad.A good artist shouldn't be nervous about that.