George Villiers Quotes

It is not enough that poetry is agreeable, it should also be interesting.

What is art? Prostitution.

Just why I sent it to the publishers would be hard to say, but when I had finished it I felt that it was literature, because it is real and because it was well written. And I know that the world wants such things.

Art has never been a popularity contest.

All good performance pieces have some philosophical validity. That's the difference between mere theater and performance art.

What makes art in general, and literature in particular, remarkable, what distinguishes them from life, is precisely that they abhor repetition. In everyday life, you can tell the same joke thrice and, thrice getting a laugh, become the life of the party. In art, though, this sort of conduct is called 'cliche.'

Movie, being an art form, should have artistic value and should do justice to the artistes.

While art may instruct as well as please, it can nevertheless be true art without instructing, but not without pleasing.

A good painting should be the equivalent of a good deed.

a work that intends to be art must first be entertaining.

Although I do not care for the slogan "art for art's sake", there can be no question that what makes a work of fiction safe from larvae and rust is not its social importance but its art, only its art.

The Window is not without a certain visual spell that makes it a first-rate artistic achievement.

It doesn't matter one damn bit whether fashion is art or not. You don't question whether an incredible chef is an artist or not-his cakes are delicious and that's all that matters.

In a sense, the first (if not necessarily the prime) function of a novelist, of ANY artist, is to entertain. If the poem, painting, play or novel does not immediately engage one's surface interest then it has failed. Whatever else it may or may not be, art is also entertainment. Bad art fails to entertain. Good art does something in addition.

In the finished article, the only thing that is important is whether it moves you or not. There is nothing else that is important at all.

Freedom of speech doesn't guarantee great literature.

Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.

Send anyone claiming that their RPG activity is an art form my way, and I'll gladly stick a pin in their head and deflate it just to have the satisfaction of the popping sound that makes. One might play a game artfully, but that makes neither the game nor its play art.

If it is art, it is not for all, and if it is for all, it is not art.

Novelty is an essential attribute of the beautiful.

Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it.

Detective stories have nothing to do with works of art.

A good piece of art raises questions.

The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.

I think for me, any great art is art which communicates human emotion.