John Waters Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• Contemporary art hates you.

  John Waters

  Art, Hate, Contemporary

  "And Your Family Too". Installation shot, Courtesy of Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, www.interviewmagazine.com. 2009.

• Aren't maids the ultimate art critics?

  John Waters

  Art, Maids, Critics

  John Waters (2010). “Role Models”, p.235, Macmillan

• The worst thing you can do is make a cult movie. That means you got three great reviews and nobody went. An art film means it got a lot of good reviews and nobody went. There is no such thing as a counter culture now. What used to be considered that is commercial now.

  John Waters

  Art, Mean, Counter Culture

• I hate it when people say, I'm an artist. I think, well, I'll be the judge of that. And I don't think artist is a job description. It's a critique, a favorable critique, that someone else might apply to your work. I guess in the art world I'm not exactly a photographer, but I do use photography.

  John Waters

  Photography, Art, Jobs

• I like art that challenges you and makes a lot of people angry because they don't get it. Because they refuse to look at it properly. Rather than open their mind to the possibility of seeing something, they just resist. A lot of people think contemporary art makes them feel stupid. Because they are stupid. They're right. If you have contempt about contemporary art, you are stupid. You can be the most uneducated person in the world and completely appreciate contemporary art, because you see the rebellion. You see that it's trying to change things.

  John Waters

  Art, Stupid, Thinking

  "Who gave John Waters the keys to the museum?". Interview with Colin Covert, www.startribune.com. June 5, 2011.

• I think Chelsea Girls is a complete masterpiece and I think Andy's [Warhol] films are equally as good as the art. I think one day they will be considered equal. They aren't yet. They will be.

  John Waters

  Girl, Art, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I was thinking about sort of the similarities between "art movies" and lowbrow movies like kitschy sexploitation films. I think they share certain qualities, whether they're hyper-stylized or overly emotive or just very visual.

  John Waters

  Art, Thinking, Quality

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I actually think that my films are intellectual. I think almost everything I do is intellectual, but I would never say that, because that's a compliment. That's up to others to say about me. The same way, I would never say I do art. I think art is up to history. It's up to other people to utter that word. So I try to be humble.

  John Waters

  Art, Humble, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I think middle America has changed very, very much. I think people are way more open-minded. I think - I think it's because the Internet. I think they're exposed to so much. All the men talked about how much they love their wife, which I don't hear all the time in art communities.

  John Waters

  Art, Men, Thinking

  "An Evening With John Waters On Hitchhiking And Middle America". "Here and Now" with Robin Young, kuow.org. June 24, 2014.

• If you want to be an artist, go to every art gallery, if you want to be in movies, see movies! You have to participate in whichever world you're trying to enter! You have to know what's going on. You can be the best artist in the world but if you don't know one thing about which gallery to go to, you're never going to get it shown in the right place. Learn a little bit about the business of whichever art you're trying to get into. Without it, you will be lost.

  John Waters

  Art, Trying, World

  Source: www.thehippocollective.com

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