“Art is good, bad, boring, ugly, useful to us or not. It does or doesn't disturb optical monotony, and succeeds or fails in surmounting sterility of style or visual stereotype; it creates new beauty or it doesn't.” DoeArtFailingStyleSucceedArt IsUglyBoringVisualsStereotypeMonotony Author:Jerry Saltz
“When art is really great, it's really powerful, can really do something to you, make you feel more alive and make you feel more connected to something. If you don't feel like that when you do it, and you just make a movie to make money, that would be pretty boring to me. I just wouldn't do it. That would be like sitting in an office, which I don't want to do.” IfsWantFeelsArtWould BePowerfulAliveOfficeArt IsSittingBoringConnectedMaking MoneyReally GreatReally Powerful Author:Julian Schnabel
“The problem with cinema nowadays is that it's a math problem. People can read a film mathematically; they know when this comes or that comes; in about 30 minutes, it's going to be over and have an ending. So film has become a mathematical solution. And that is boring, because art is not mathematical.” PeopleKnowsArtProblemFilmMinutesSolutionsArt IsBoringMathMathematicalCinemaMath Problems Author:Nicolas Winding Refn
“We started to confuse entertainment with art, because art has a component of entertainment. It has to have that or it becomes too boring. It becomes too lost in its own devices. But I just think that we started to lose, and even before that, it's not necessary.” ThinkingArtLostLosesArt IsEntertainmentBoringDevicesComponents Author:Wynton Marsalis
“Music and art is regarded as extra and can be the first thing that you cut in a school program, and it's completely not true. If you want to create really boring, frustrated human beings, then yeah, cut out art and science.” IfsWantFirstsHumansArtSchoolHuman BeingsCuttingArt IsProgramYeahBoringExtrasFrustratedArt And Science Author:Reggie Watts
“I think didactic art is boring. I mean, I love it in terms of, like, some of the historical precedents that I've learned from. You needed that. We needed those building blocks in terms of - you know, when I look at a great Barbara Kruger, for example, and you're thinking about, you know, the woman's position in society - you know, she found a way of making it beautiful, but at the same time it's very sort of preachy, you know what I mean?” ThinkingKnowsWayLooksMeanArtBeautifulFoundTermExamplePositionBuildingNeededArt IsHistoricalBoringBlockI've LearnedPrecedentBarbaraBuilding BlocksThinking About YouDidactic Author:Kehinde Wiley
“Most contemporary artists are behind the bubble in time. They're making videos that are so incredibly boring compared to a good movie. Or they're making work where I say, "You realize minimal art is 50 or 60 years old?" That's what I tell people to shock them. They just blanch.” PeopleYearsArtArtistRealizingBehindsArt IsBoringVideoContemporaryShockBubblesGood Movie Author:Alex Katz
“This is the theory… that anything that is art… is presumably about some certain thing, but is really always about something else, and it’s no good having one without the other, because if you just have the something it is boring and if you just have the something else it’s irritating.” IfsArtCertainTheoryArt IsBoringIrritating Author:Edward Gorey