If you are going to break a Law of Art, make the crime interesting.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their foolish and random writing it would be impossible to overestimate - not to the artist, but to the public, blinding them to all but harming the artist not at all.
Art is an investigation.
I'm not a good crime writer. I'm not good with plots... so I have to do something else.
All good art is seditious, but the people in authority can never recognise it. I think when you mention sedition, artists are the ones whose eyes light up thinking, 'Oh, yes, I want some of that!'
Writing is possibly an art, but crime writing is definitely a craft.
All art is theft.
Art is anything you can get away with.
Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.
To restrict the artist is a crime. It is to murder germinating life.
You'll see more violence in any television crime series than you will in my films... Art is there to have a stimulating effect, if it earns its name. You have to be honest, that's the only thing.