Danny Aiello Quotes

'The Godfather' illustrated the family values - the reality that it was really a family thing, honor and tradition. It wasn't just a single-dimension thing.

Of course you should study whatever you want. The written appreciation and understanding of literature, or any kind of artistic endeavour, is absolutely central to a decent society. Why d'you think books are the first things that the fascists burn?

For it is a plain fact that, most certainly in the West, the writings, works of art, musical compositions which are of central reference, comport that which is "grave and constant" (Joyce's epithets) in the mystery of our condition.

Art is an irreplaceable way of understanding and expressing the world.

Art should never try to be popular.

Art is the great stimulus to life.

Everything about art has become problematic; its inner life, its relation to society, even its right to exist.

Art is the means we have of undoing the damage of haste. It's what everything else isn't.

Music is art, and art is important and rare. Important, rare things are valuable. Valuable things should be paid for.

We started to confuse entertainment with art, because art has a component of entertainment. It has to have that or it becomes too boring. It becomes too lost in its own devices. But I just think that we started to lose, and even before that, it's not necessary.

Art is an intersection of many human needs.

Art isn't supposed to change the world, but it can.

In Europe they understand that the arts are incredibly important both culturally and economically.

Art is something that nobody laughs at and nobody makes any money out of is the attitude, which I would dispute.

The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavour. The beauty endures. A work of art lives...through the generations and centuries.

Art has a smaller audience than, say, movies or other forms of mass consumption. But that doesn't mean the work doesn't have an impact in a way that transcends just a few cultural arbiters.

The arts are not a luxury. They are an integral part of our lives as individuals and as a nation.

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.

I find people who prejudge reality TV to be annoying. Art comes from anywhere. Culture can ooze out of any crack. Prejudging is the death of creativity.

Art is amoral; so is life. For me there are no obscene pictures or books; there are only poorly conceived and poorly executed ones.

The power of works of art still continues to be secretly nourished by imitation... kitsch

A lot of people want to keep country music in the minority of people. But it belongs to the world. It's art.

Obscenity is a notable enhancer of life and is suppressed at grave peril to the arts.

And if out of a million visitors there is even one to whom art means something, that is enough to justify museums.

Sometimes art seems to be something very sublime, and, as you say, something sacred.