Artistic Intelligence Quotes

The great artist is a formulation of the greatest intelligence: he is the recipient of sensations which are the most delicate and consequently the most invisible expressions of the brain.

A film maker is a very intelligent man. Do not underestimate him.

Great novels are always a little more intelligent than their authors.

Sondheim writes the music and lyrics, and because he's so smart and goes so deep with his feelings, there's a lot to explore, get involved with and learn about.

A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual.

There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun

The great challenge is how to make smart, intelligent art that can speak to everybody.

Romantic art is always stylized: the better the art, the cleaner and more attractive and intelligent the stylization.

[On gay men:] Let me say, a more artistic, appreciative group of people for the arts does not exist ... They are more knowledgeable, more loving of the arts. They make the average male look stupid.

You are right in demanding that an artist should take an intelligent attitude to his work, but you confuse two things: solving a problem and stating a problem correctly.

I have heard it very often said that an artist does not need intelligence, that his is the province of the soul

There's this notion that artists are supposed to be dumb and frivolous. I completely disagree with that.

Boulez's only concern is with power. He lost the leadership of the avant-guard more than ten years ago to Stockhausen. Now others have moved in. With the need for power, where was he to go? So he chose to be a conductor. He is a wonderful musician, a wonderful intelligence. It's a pity there is no humanity there. Does he have sex? I think not. When men have no sex, they go after power in this big, obsessive way.

His judgement demonstrates that one can be a genius and understand nothing of an art that is not one's own.