David Mamet Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• When you come into the theatre, you have to be willing to say, 'We're all here to undergo a communion, to find out what the hell is going on in this world.' If you're not willing to say that, what you get is entertainment instead of art, and poor entertainment at that.

  David Mamet

  Art, Theatre, World

  David Mamet (2013). “Three Uses of the Knife: On the Nature and Purpose of Drama”, p.27, Vintage

• Art is an expression of joy and awe. It is not an attempt to share one's virtues and accomplishments with the audience, but an act of selfless spirit.

  David Mamet

  Art, Expression, Accomplishment

  David Mamet (2011). “True and False: Heresy and Common Sense for the Actor”, p.24, Vintage

• Movies were never an art form, they were entertainment. It just evolved into an art form from there, and it's still evolving in different ways.

  David Mamet

  Art, Way, Entertainment

• The most charming of theories holds that someone other than Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare's plays -- that he was of too low a state, and of insufficient education. But where in the wide history of the world do we find art created by the excessively wealthy, powerful, or educated?

  David Mamet

  Art, Powerful, Play

  David Mamet (2011). “True and False: Heresy and Common Sense for the Actor”, p.35, Vintage

• To find beauty in the sad, hope in the midst of loss, and dignity in failure is great poetic art.

  David Mamet

  Art, Loss, Dignity

• Mixed martial arts was invented by Brazilians, whose families had been trained by the Japanese. Those Brazilians came to the U.S., where their invention was bought out, gussied up and presented to the world, which found it good.

  David Mamet

  Art, World, Invention

  "Ultimate fighting: the final frontier" by David Mamet, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2007.

• Where in the wide history of the world do we find art created by the excessively wealthy, powerful, or educated?

  David Mamet

  Art, Powerful, World

  David Mamet (2011). “True and False: Heresy and Common Sense for the Actor”, p.35, Vintage

• Art is about the spontaneous connection of the artist to his own unconscious - about insight beyond reason. If his insight were reasonable, anyone could do it, but anyone cannot. Only few can, and they are called.

  David Mamet

  Art, Connections, Spontaneous

  David Mamet (2010). “Theatre”, p.91, Macmillan

• Art and mass entertainment and propaganda, they can all be plotted on the same graph, but there is a difference.

  David Mamet

  Art, Differences, Entertainment

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