“One way to cope with the provocations of novel art is to rest firm and maintain solid standards... set by the critic's long-practiced taste and by his conviction that only those innovations will be significant which promote the established direction of advanced art.” WayLongArtNovelTasteStandardsArt IsInnovationCriticsConvictionSignificantOne WayFirmProvocationStandards Set Author:Leo Steinberg
“Music's always part of my writing. I think all art is interconnected. You can't create or experience one without its influences bleeding into another. In my writing, music's mostly something that feeds my inspiration and mood while I'm writing, but it's also taught me how to score scenes and even novels. The rise and fall of the storyline echoes the flow of a good piece of music.” ThinkingWritingArtInspirationFallNovelPiecesInfluenceTaughtSceneArt IsFlowMoodScoreEchoesBleedingInterconnectedWriting MusicRise And FallStoryline Author:Charles de Lint
“Art is fueled by rebellion: the need, in some amounting to obsessions, to resist what is, to defy one's elders, even to the point of ostracism; to define oneself, and by extension one's generation, as new, novel, ungovernable.” NeedsArtNovelGenerationsArt IsOneselfObsessionRebellionExtensionsEldersOstracism Book:Where I've Been, and where I'm Going: Essays, Reviews, and Prose Source: Where I've Been, and where I'm Going: Essays, Reviews, and Prose
“Writing a film - more precisely, adapting a book into a film - is basically a relentless series of compromises. The skill, the "art," is to make those compromises both artistically valid and essentially your own. . . . It has been said before but is worth reiterating: writing a novel is like swimming in the sea; writing a film is like swimming in the bath.” WritingHas BeensArtSaidBookFilmNovelSeaSkillsArt IsSeriesCompromiseCraftsSwimmingBathsRelentlessAdapting Author:William Boyd
“Just getting something to work usually means writing reams of code fast, like a Stephen King novel, but making it maintainable and high-quality code that really expresses the ideas well, is like writing poetry. Art is taking away.” WritingWellsMeanArtIdeasQualityNovelKingsArt IsCodeHigh QualityWriting Poetry Author:Erik Naggum
“Ayn Rand held that art is a 're-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgements.' By its nature, therefore, a novel (like a statue or a symphony) does not require or tolerate an explanatory preface; it is a self-contained universe, aloof from commentary, beckoning the reader to enter, perceive, respond.” DoeArtSelfRealityArtistValuesUniverseNovelCreationReaderArt IsPerceiveJudgementTolerateMetaphysicalStatuesSymphonyCommentaryAloofSelf ContainedBeckoning Author:Leonard Peikoff
“Art is not politics. The glory of the novel is that in its essence, it is a democratic form, because it treats individuals as worthy of scrutiny. That alone is a kind of political act. A good novel about a tea party of rich women can be just as galvanizing and important to the soul as War and Peace, so I think it's not really the job of artists to do anything. They can have their opinions as private citizens, but they must continue making their art.” ThinkingKindArtImportantWarSoulPoliticalArtistIndividualPartyOpinionNovelRichGloryArt IsDemocraticWorthyTeaTea Party Author:Paul Auster
“You want to make entertainment sometimes, and sometimes you want to make art, because I think the way we understand ourselves as human beings is through art, and the way we process emotions - I know I do - is through recognizing experiences on screen, or in novels, or in paintings.” ThinkingArtSometimesEmotionNovelPaintingArt Is Author:Rosamund Pike
“Life is a shitstorm, in which art is our only umbrella." (spoken by character in a novel by Mario Vargas Llosa)” ArtCharacterLife IsNovelArt IsUmbrellaMario Author:Mario Vargas Llosa