Woody Allen Quotes About Art
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The artist's job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence.
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American films, it's a money-making industry. And in France, you can find great respect for cinema as art.
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That’s one of the nice things about writing, or any art; if the thing’s real, it just lives. All the attendant hoopla about it, the success over it or the critical rejection—none of that really matters. In the end, the thing will survive or not on its own merits. Not that immortality via art is any big deal. Truffaut died, and we all felt awful about it, and there were the appropriate eulogies, and his wonderful films live on. But it’s not much help to Truffaut.
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Does art imitate life, or does life imitate TV?
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I could turn on my radio in the morning when I was getting dressed for school and hear Frank Sinatra and Duke Ellington and Benny Goodman and think this is the music. Now that music is art. Ellington is art. At that time it was just what you heard on the radio. Cole Porter was just a guy who wrote pretty songs and Billie Holliday would sing them.
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You can't control life. It doesn't wind up perfectly. Only-only art you can control. Art and masturbation. Two areas in which I am an absolute expert.
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You know how you're always trying to get things to come out perfect in art because it's real difficult in life
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When you start putting a higher value on works of art than people, you’re forfeiting your humanity.
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Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.
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Everybody knows how awful the world is and what a terrible situation it is and each person distorts it in a certain way that enables him to get through. Some people distort it with religious things. Some people distort it with sports, with money, with love, with art, and they all have their own nonsense about what makes it meaningful, and all but nothing makes it meaningful. These things definitely serve a certain function, but in the end they all fail to give life meaning and everyone goes to his grave in a meaningless way.
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None of the arts are any good unless you really are great at them.
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To me, movies are valuable as an art form and as a wonderful means of popular entertainment. But I think movies have gone terribly wrong.
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That’s one of the nice things about writing, or any art; if the thing’s real, it just lives.
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