artistic classification Quotes

When you make a film, everyone wants to define it.

Genre, to me, is not all that important, and it never has been.

Writers never feel comfortable having labels attached to them, however accurate they are.

Has it struck you that the music which is regarded as the most sublime in western civilization, which is the music of Bach, is called baroque?

I am not a representative of anything. When art historians or critics or the public put somebody in a drawer like this, it has a tranquilizing, paralyzing effect. Artists are individuals. They have ideas, and the conventions for one's self as an individual are not for a group. There are always those who follow the group, but they belong in the margins. I refuse to be placed within, or added to, one particular school.

I don't know why records are treated different than books. I don't know why an Eminem record is different than a Stephen King movie.

I just don't think most people put myself and Robert Frost in the same category.

Genre is a useful concept only when used not evaluatively but descriptively.

I am not a Christian artist, I am an artist who is a Christian.

I hate categories. Hank Williams is a great artist, period. Bob Dylan is a great artist, so is Marty Robbins. They just classify these people and put them in categories so they can sell the thing easier.

I think the term 'conceptual art' is a useful term for writers, a basket to put people in, like Pop Art or Impressionism or whatever.

There's nothing in Hollywood that's inherently detrimental to good art. I think that's a fallacy that we've created because we frame the work that way too overtly. 'This is Hollywood.' 'This isn't Hollywood.' It's like, 'No, this is actually all Hollywood.' People are just framing them differently.

When I went over to the States to promote Outrider, everyone was telling me I was a blues guitarist. I'm not a bloody blues guitarist. I'm a guitarist.

As for the author, he is profoundly unaware of what the classical or romantic genre might consist of.... In literature, as in allthings, there is only the good and the bad, the beautiful and the ugly, the true and the false.

I don't think I was considered to be a cabaret singer because I didn't have patter that was written.

I consider myself more of an international artist than I do a one-territory artist, which I think is a blessing.

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.

My music was too religious for the rock and roll stores and too rock and roll for the religious stores.

In England, I'm a horror movie director. In Germany, I'm a filmmaker. In the US, I'm a bum.

I didn’t see any difference between being a photographer or being an artist. I didn’t make those boundaries. If someone wants to think it’s art, that’s great, but I’ll let history decide.

I always thought that poetry is the verdict that others give to a certain kind of writing. So to call yourself a poet is a kind of dangerous description. It's for others; it's for others to use.

I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it.

I am, it seems, an avant-garde dramatist. It would even seem obvious since I am present here at discussions on the avant-garde theatre. It is all entirely official. But what does the term avant-garde mean?

I don't like the idea of 'classical crossover,' even if sometimes I see this category given to what I'm doing.

Now people ask whether photography is art, but I think the question is of absolutely no interest.