Jean de la Bruyere Quotes

I think that anything that leads to creativity and good work is good.

The important thing is to do good work, no matter what medium you do it in.

All good work has magic in it, and addresses the mind in a subtle way.

I have no interest in doing anything other than good work.

Don't worry about being a star, worry about doing good work, and all that will come to you.

He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.

I think there are lots of ways to make good work. You can throw big bucks at a project and make what some would call crap, or you can work very modestly with eloquently moving results.

If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of it, but that's not the way to produce good work.

I just want to do good work.

When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence. It is good, and made by a good workman.

Fame is something I think happens as a result of trying to do good work. If you're trying to be famous, your work usually suffers.

I seek out good work.

If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of it, but that's not the way to produce good work. So as an author, I need to write what I need to write.

The stories are success stories. The letters from listeners often touch the heart and can be inspiring.

Anybody can do bad work, but not everybody does good work.

My position is that serious and good art has always existed to help, to serve, humanity. Not to indict. I don't see how art can be called art if its purpose is to frustrate humanity.

I just want to do really good work.

The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman's heart.

I want people to be inspired by my music.

Nothing so resembles a daub as a masterpiece.

If modern painters feel qualms about applying the term "masterpiece" to describe a work of capital importance, this is because it has come to convey a notion of perfection: a notion that leads to much confusion when applied to artists other than those who made perfection their ideal.

I really love art and I always have in every single different form and I just hope that I'm able to give some art that will touch some people and help them to be more positive and stronger.

Jean Renoir once suggested that most true creators have only one idea and spend their lives reworking it, but then very rapidly he added that most people don't have any ideas at all, so one idea is pretty amazing.

I make something I can look at and say, "That's a good piece of work, and there's some terrific directing and acting in it, and you should be proud of it."

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