Art Quote by Ethan Coen Download Open image “Barton Fink is just too self-important as an artist to get much sympathy.” — Ethan Coen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Artist Get Just Much Sympathy
Barton Fink got written very quickly, in about three weeks. I don't know what that means. — Joel Coen Copy Share Image
'Barton Fink' owed something to Roman Polanski. As a director, he always goes beyond the obvious narrative drift. — Ethan Coen Copy Share Image
“No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style. No artist is ever morbid.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Nothing helps an artist's career more than a little death and obscurity. — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
The real artist has no idea that he is sacrificing himself for art. He does “what he does for one reason and one reason… — Alma Gluck Copy Share Image
The artist must be like a heart surgeon. He must approach something with sympathy, but with a sort of coldness and work and work… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
An artist's saddest secrets are those that have to do with his artistry. — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
The writer knows his own worth, and to be overvalued can confuse and destroy him as an artist. — Charles R. Jackson Copy Share Image
When something is just bad, it's often because it is too mediocre in its ambition. The artist hasn't attempted to do anything really outlandish. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Like any kind of writing, there are good days and frustrating days. But even frustrating days can be rewarding sometimes. — Ethan Coen Copy Share Image
That cowboy look - the hat and the bandana - that's not a fashion statement. That clothing is purely practical. — Ethan Coen Copy Share Image
What is striking in Minnesota is the invisible horizon line. On a grey day, when there's snow on the ground, the sky and the… — Ethan Coen Copy Share Image
Is this business any worse than any other business? It's not especially bad. — Ethan Coen Copy Share Image
It's just an impulse, in some actors. You want to make the audience like you. That's the aim of the exercise. — Ethan Coen Copy Share Image
Mainstream movies used to be more adventurous because people went to them. — Ethan Coen Copy Share Image
We used to watch the muscle movies on Saturday matinees, such as 'Hercules Unchained.' Then we'd go outside and do a remake of it. — Ethan Coen Copy Share Image
I mean, Joel talks to the actors more than I do and I probably do production stuff a little more than he does. — Ethan Coen Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
