Kathleen Kennedy Quotes

Putting out commercial pieces and promoting them and trying to sell them to people is not necessarily what it means to be an artist.

The novel is the first art form that is an honest-to-god commodity. That's what makes it different from both high art and folk art.

And you know, art as commerce, doesn't really make too much sense, they don't go together.

There's always been an ongoing struggle between commerce and art.

I personally don't distinguish between artistic and commercial films.

Art indeed is a term referring to the social source and to the social utility of creative acts.

A lot of dumb pictures have made a lot of money, but that doesn't mean they're going to be anything cinema students will revel over in the future.

We believed that there's no such thing as good art or bad art. Art is art. If it's bad, it's something else. It was a much, much harder line in the '50s and '60s than it is now, because the idea of art education didn't exist - they didn't have a fine arts program when I was a kid.

People forget that Mozart wrote for commissions. There's a thing in psychology where they think if it's popular, it can't be serious.

Today a picture has value if it makes a lot of money. Myself, I declare I want to make a picture to lose money. Really! I want to lose money.

There are values on Broadway that are dangerous: it's got to be Best Musical, it's got to make money, it's got to run a certain amount of time. Nowhere in this, of course, is there any mention of quality.

Poetry is not mainstream, but then neither is serious fiction, really. But I don't think there's a lot to worry about in this particular 'problem'. Why does art have to be mainstream to be significant?

I don't mean this, but I'm going to say it anyway. I don't really think of pop art and serious art as being that far apart.

The world is so caught up in the 'American Idol' idealistic sort of tendency in regards to just thinking that this whole thing is what everybody wants, but it doesn't help you make a better record.

But, you see, the theatre is not always art in America.

Painting was a problem - you produce a thing, and then you sell it and get money, and that was quickly considered totally uncool.

Great art, the more specific you are, the more universal it becomes, and that's the thing that I loved about 'The Wire.'

Photography is not a fine art at all.

A lot of the conceptualists and the prestige galleries are debasing themselves in presentations which have little else to them but the presentation.

I have been skeptical, sometimes, about the importance of rap music, which I think is a capitalistic project to make money.

They[ Lana and Andy Wachowski]are true artists. They really are trying to say something and trying to create something original, and there aren't that many people who do that.

The only thing an artist is useful for, and the only reason why we don't just line 'em up against the wall and shoot them, is because, at their best, they're the reflection of our lives, that most regular people can't even afford to think about.

I'm not an industry artist - I'm an artist in the industry.

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

Art for art's sake? I should think so, and more so than ever at the present time. It is the one orderly product which our middling race has produced. It is the cry of a thousand sentinels, the echo from a thousand labyrinths, it is the lighthouse which cannot be hidden. It is the best evidence we can have of our dignity.