I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Books are my art. The movie is someone else's art. But it's great marketing for books.
A book makes claims of literary art.
Fundamentally, all art is about human beings. You're always showing larger moral questions through the smaller moral, philosophical, or political choices through one character in the book.
Buying books was a way anyone could acquire a work of art for very little.
Art, like science, progresses, and to me it's bizarre that a lot of acclaimed and popular and respectable books are not advancing the art form.
Certainly one of the surprising truths of having a book published is realizing that your book is as open to interpretation as an abstract painting. People bring their own beliefs and attitudes to your work, which is thrilling and surprising at the same time.
Art is maybe a subversive activity. There is a certain rebellion when you are an artist at heart, even if only in the art of living.
Art needs to be socialised, and you need a lot of context to understand that, and that doesn't mean having read a few art history books.
I don't get my inspiration from books or a painting. I get it from the women I meet.
Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.