Artistic Utility Quotes

I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into film in some way.

The condition of mankind is, and always has been, so miserable and depraved that, if anyone were to say to the poet: "For God's sake stop singing and do something useful like putting on the kettle or fetching bandages," what just reason could he give for refusing?

Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn.

Poets arent very usefulBecause they aren't consumeful or produceful.

For now, I'm supposing that all movements are equal, which they're not, except in this respect: that none of them gives a damn about artists beyond their immediate utility. Good movements will use a writer just as ruthlessly as bad ones; since they all fancy they have better things to do than worry about one man's artistic survival.

You can't reject anything in your life as an artist. Everything has its use.

The non-utility of my kitchen could be transformed into its utility for art. To do a show there would mix art and life, naturally.

In fine arts, when you make a painting, it's just a painting. But if you make a painting in the entertainment industry, it can be an album cover or a t-shirt or a logo. I like that entertainment has this usefulness - that it's ultimately trying to make a bunch of people feel something, and to think about life and be able to use things that were so simple and direct but potentially have a really powerful effect.

As an artist, you tend to identify your sphere of influence and try to employ that as best you can to hopefully be useful.

What I love about design is the artistic and scientific complexity that also becomes useful.

The mechanical arts are of ambiguous use, serving as well for hurt as for remedy.

The poet, distracted by politics, asks of poetry that it make itself useful like metal or flour, that it get ready to stain its face with coal dust and fight body to body.