American life Quote by Harold Rosenberg

Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not…

— Susan Sontag

Undeniably the American art form, too. And yet more and more, we see films made that diminish the American experience and example. And sometimes…

— Charlton Heston

Movies are one of the bad habits that corrupted our century. Of their many sins, I offer as the worst their effect on the…

— Anonymous

When a culture is being dumbed down as effectively as ours is, its narrative arts (literature, film, theatre) seem to vacillate between the brutal…

— Tom Robbins

An art form requires genius. People of genius are always troublemakers, meaning they start from scratch, demolish accepted norms and rebuild a new world.…

— Henri Langlois

It used to be that we in films were the lowest form of art. Now we have something to look down on. (Of Television)

— Billy Wilder

Bad art might be defined as a series of bad choices about what to show and what to leave out.

— Alain de Botton

“Under ordinary circumstances, bad art naturally gets sorted out and disappears. That is how history works when it is left alone to do its…

— Michael Kimmelman

The existence of good bad literature—the fact that one can be amused or excited or even moved by a book that one's intellect simply…

— George Orwell

The damnable thing about bad art is that the insincerity which lies at its roots is not perceived by the artist himself.

— Quentin Bell

There are some disabling myths about what art is, how to do it, what is good art, and what art is for, that have…

— Peter London

I usually don't mind movies that people think go overboard because that's what art is all about. Art is about pushing us and making…

— Ice Cube