Steven Moffat Quotes

Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them.

A proof of really great art is that it is generally true - it seldom falls into the misapprehensions to which minor art is liable.

I honestly think that's one of the greatest motivators of art - the fear of not making great art.

Great art direction is NOT the same thing as great film direction!

The best of any artist is in their art.

The more you look at great art of any kind, you'll see that there's this thread running through all of it.

There are lots of artists I respect and admire.

I got Greg Aronowitz, who does [ Felicia Day] sets, to do mine as well, and he's just amazing. He can work miracles with nothing.

Not all art is great; most of it's rubbish.

In the world of reality the more beautiful a work of art, the longer, we may be sure, was the time required to make it, and the greater the number of different minds which assisted in its development.

I hope I can become a good enough filmmaker where I can take a script that I'm not 'heart and soul' into, but I could still make something really great out of it.

I don't think there's any formula for what makes great art.

I've worked with a lot of directors, some of them you wouldn't really attach the word 'artist' to their name.

It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting.

I may even show up behind the camera. I love to put things together; I love to give direction. I have a great eye for pace.

And I took a long time to appreciate Lynch.

Unless the work of art has wholly exhausted its maker's attention, it fails. This is why works of great significance are demanding and why they are infinitely rewarding.

Great art should be shown with great excitement.

Sometimes when I walk into a gallery and I see someone's work, I think to myself, 'Gee, I wish I had done that.'

To be a great painter means to be a great poet: someone who transcends the limits of his language.

I have a great little camera, and I had a theory that if the story is interesting, it doesn't matter what medium you shoot it on. You just have to make a good film.

I love working with Darren Lynn Bousman. He is such a cool director with really great ideas.

I don't think that I'm over his influence but they probably don't look like Picassos; Picasso himself would probably have thrown up looking at my pictures.