J. Tillman Quotes

Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.

To me, art's highest purpose is to entertain, to enlighten, to inspire, to evoke emotion and to change an audience in some way, big or small.

Variety is more than a means of avoiding boredom, since art is more than an entertainment of the senses.

I don't believe that art is just for entertainment. I want to create art that is meaningful in some way.

What is art? Art talks about life; it's subversive.

That's what you want art to do, to open people up and start conversations.

To me, at its best, that's what art should do, perform both the emotional and intellectual function.

I loved the idea of dramatic art of storytelling as a way to make sense of things. It's really what I love and what I care about.

I like when entertainment not only makes me laugh or cry or thrills me, but makes the world a little clearer - and makes myself a little clearer.

Entertainment provides relief. Art provokes engagement.

Were it not for music, we might in these days say, the Beautiful is dead.

One of the things you do when you make a piece of art is you try to make the world you'd rather be in.

I hope that my painting has the impact of giving someone, as it did me, the feeling of his own totality, of his own separateness, of his own individuality.

For me, fiction isn't very cathartic. It can be a broad, long catharsis, but it's a whole different thing - whereas music is physical. Essentially, it goes in through your ear. Fiction is cerebral, necessarily. It can do emotional stuff. But they don't really compare - not for me.

The final test of a painting, theirs, mine, any other, is: does the painter's emotions come across?

We like movies and books that give us this emotionally moving experience, where you feel like a slightly different person, and you see the world a little different after you finish. It lets you see your own life in a different way, and it actually makes you feel really good.

Artwork is a representation of our devotion to life.

As a viewer, my own work elicits strong emotional reaction from me.

It's disappointing to see films become pure entertainment, so that it's not an art form.

Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit.

I mean, any movie or story that makes you accept and be grateful for something about your life is doing something right.

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

Art is something that opens up and enhances your emotions and that's what I like to think I'm doing.

Human requirements are the inspiration for art.

What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.