
“I don´t want to be interesting, I want to be good.”
Source: "Quotes", Notebooks and Lectures on the Bible and Other Religious Texts (2003), p. 7
“I don´t want to be interesting, I want to be good.”
“The development that produces great art is a moral and not an aesthetic development.”
"Italian Report" (December 1955).
“Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an aesthetic end.”
Notebook entry, Paris (28 March 1903), printed in James Joyce: Occasional, Critical and Political Writing (2002) edited by Kevin Barry [Oxford University Press, 2002, <small> ISBN 0-192-83353-7</small>], p. 104
Source: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Source: 1940s, Beyond the Aesthetics' (1946), pp. 36-37
As quoted in "Film master Ingmar Bergman dies at 89" by Myrna Oliver in Los Angeles Times (31 July 2007) http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-me-bergman31jul31,0,3877362,full.story?coll=la-home-world.
Source: Attributed from posthumous publications, Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead (1954), Ch. 29, June 10, 1943.