Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.
The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)
Kontext: Art is this intense form of individualism that makes the public try to exercise over it an authority that is as immoral as it is ridiculous, and as corrupting as it is contemptible. It is not quite their fault. The public have always, and in every age, been badly brought up. They are continually asking Art to be popular, to please their want of taste, to flatter their absurd vanity, to tell them what they have been told before, to show them what they ought to be tired of seeing, to amuse them when they feel heavy after eating too much, and to distract their thoughts when they are wearied of their own stupidity. Now Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.
„Nesnažíme sa pobaviť kritikov, ale verejnosť“
„Príroda je strašidelný dom - ale umenie je dom, ktorý sa snaží byť strašidelný.“
„Máme umenie, aby sme nezomreli od pravdy.“
„Mám radšej psov ako ľudí. Tí ma na rozdiel od ľudí ešte nekusli.“
Prisudzované výroky
Zdroj: Citaty-slavnych.sk - Marilyn Monroe citáty http://citaty-slavnych.sk/autori/marilyn-monroe/
„Nemyslím, že moje umenie by malo trvalú hodnotu.“
Prisudzované výroky
„Ak má film úspech, je to biznis. Ak nemá úspech, je to umenie.“
„Radšej mám hlúposť, ktorá ma rozveselí, ako umenie, čo ma roztrpčí.“
Prisudzované výroky, O správaní sa ľudí
