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art

Hollywood's standard saying is, "Film is a collaborative medium."

David Mamet amended this to summarize Hollywood's attitude towards writers:
"Film is a collaborative medium; bend over." 

The morality of the ratings system is: if you suck on a tit you're an X. If you
hack it off with a sword you're an R.
	-- Jack Nicholson

The Three Little Pigs is the basis of most serial-killer films. One notable
exception is Psycho, which is actually based extremely closely on Little Red
Riding Hood.
	-- k5 Pseudonym

... those who are inspired by a model other than nature, a mistress above all
others, are laboring in vain.
	-- Leonardo da Vinci

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade
themselves that they have a better idea.
	-- John Ciardi

A copy of the universe is not what is required of art; one of the damned
things is ample.
	-- Rebecca West

The most important thing in art is The Frame. For painting: literally; for
other arts: figuratively--because, without this humble appliance, you can't
know where The Art stops and The Real World begins.

You have to put a 'box' around it because otherwise, what is that shit on the
wall?

If John Cage, for instance, says, "I'm putting a contact microphone on my
throat, and I'm going to drink carrot juice, and that's my composition," then
his gurgling qualifies as his composition because he put a frame around it and
said so. "Take it or leave it, I now will this to be music." After that it's a
matter of taste. Without the frame-as-announced, it's a guy swallowing carrot
juice.

	-- Frank Zappa