Art Quote by John Wayne Download Open image “Westerns are closer to art than anything else in the motion picture business.” — John Wayne ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Business Motion picture Motion pictures
If you consider film an art form, as some people do, then the Western would be a truly American art form, much as jazz… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
Don't ever for a minute make the mistake of looking down your nose at westerns. They're art - the good ones, I mean. They deal in life and sudden death and primitive struggle, and with the basic emotions - love, hate, and anger - thrown in. We'll have westerns films as long as the cameras keep turning. The fascination that… — John Wayne Copy Share
Art is the Western myth, with which we both console ourselves and make ourselves. — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Westerns are a type of picture which everybody can see and enjoy. Westerns always make money. And they always increase a star's fan following. — Randolph Scott Copy Share Image
When I go to China I see many artists whose work reflects on aspects of contemporary popular culture but obviously the history of Western… — Michael Craig-Martin Copy Share Image
Why westerns get segregated into a genre in Hollywood, I don't know... It's just good entertainment. — Tom Selleck Copy Share Image
I think there have been more movies in the Western genre than any other. I grew up watching those movies. — Tom Selleck Copy Share Image
Western art is built on the biographical passion of one artist for another. — Jim Dine Copy Share Image
I was raised on Westerns. They were part of what going into the movies was. — Tobin Bell Copy Share Image
When I was a sophomore at USC, I was a socialist, pretty much to the left. But not when I left the university. I… — John Wayne Copy Share Image
Don't ever for a minute make the mistake of looking down your nose at westerns. They're art - the good ones, I mean. They deal in life and sudden death and primitive struggle, and with the basic emotions - love, hate, and anger - thrown in. We'll have westerns films as long as the cameras keep turning. The fascination that… — John Wayne Copy Share
I'd read up on the history of our country and I'd become fascinated with the story of the Alamo. To me it represented the… — John Wayne Copy Share Image
I was ashamed to admit I was hipped to the idea of acting. That's why I started in with the props. — John Wayne Copy Share Image
TRUE Courage is when you are scared to death and STILL saddle up and ride in! — John Wayne Copy Share Image
“The worst part of it has been, I think, the adverse effect on family life. It kills off family conversation. And it’s harder to get your children to read books. I became a confirmed reader when I was growing up in Glendale. I’ve loved reading all my life. Now I’ve got this daughter, Aissa, a very bright young lady --… — John Wayne Copy Share
Nothing is so discouraging to an actor than to have to work for long hours upon hours in brightly lighted interior sets. — John Wayne Copy Share Image
I don't have to assert my virility. I think my career has shown that I'm not exactly a pantywaist. But I do take pride… — John Wayne Copy Share Image
Government has no wealth, and when a politician promises to give you something for nothing, he must first confiscate that wealth from you --… — John Wayne Copy Share Image
True grit is making a decision and standing by it, doing what must be done. — John Wayne Copy Share Image
When you come slam bang up against trouble, it never looks half as bad if you face up to it. — John Wayne 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 water they loved to drink. This good man, Noah, having seen that all his contemporaries had perished by this unpleasant drink, took a dislike to it; and God, to relieve his dryness, created the vine and… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share
“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 who make people stop and think, who push the form, who make you uncomfortable, who are laughable, well, they're the ones who get remembered." Idly, Jacob dug a hole in the snow with his shovel and… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share
“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
