Quotes About Art

Photography is truth.

I am a painter with letters. I want to restore everything, mix everything up and say everything.

If you want to make a documentary you should automatically go to the fiction, and if you want to nourish your fiction you have to come back to reality.

Poetry is a game of loser-take-all.

Every film is the result of the society that produced it. That's why the American cinema is so bad now. It reflects an unhealthy society.

Good films get smaller audiences, but more of the viewer.

Cinema is capitalism in its purest form.... There is only one solution — turn one's back on American cinema.

The most fantastic thing you could film is people reading. I don't see why no one's done it... The movie you'd make would be a lot more interesting than most of them.

Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.

Art and theory of art, at one and the same time ; beauty and the secret of beauty ; cinema, and apologia for cinema. ' - Godard on Godard: Critical Writings

We're born in the museum, it's our homeland after all...

There ran in me sweet lines of poetry

La volonté affirmée de conférer à l'ONU le soin de prévenir les conflits, ou de tenter sa médiation pour y mettre fin, marque une avancée historique dans la conscience collective de l'humanité. L'ONU enseigne l'art de faire la paix et de dénouer les conflits par des approches adaptées dans plusieurs institutions, véritables écoles de la tolérance et du compromis créées à cette fin.

I start a picture and I finish it.

Love was love, but art was art and though he mixed the two a little, he never confused them.

Even though it inspires some of the world's greatest literature, music, and art, obsessive love is one of the most potent and compelling of tortures and one of the most difficult to overcome -- especially because it feels beyond conscious control. Tormented lovers try the patience even of those who truly love them, because they sufferers do not desire help extricating themselves though they claim to be seeking it; this is an illness from which no one wants to be cured.

The line between good art and bad never seemed as clear as the one between a pie and an empty oven.

Music is a science which should have definite rules; these rules should be drawn from an evident principle; and this principle cannot really be known to us without the aid of mathematics.

I believe you must be madly in love with cinema to create films. You also need a huge cinematic baggage.

All my films hinge on the fantastic. I'm not a documentarian; a film is first and foremost a dream, and it's absurd to copy life in an attempt to produce an exact recreation of it. Transposition is more or less a reflex with me.

The sky, a perfect empty canvas, offers clouds nonetheless. They shift and drift and beg interpretation... such is the nature of art.

A bud can be beautiful, a work of art even. But I'm finding it simply can't compare to the openness of the blossom. Looking for my sun.

Art doesn't have to matter to a lot of people to matter a lot.

1940s in The Tiger's Eye—a short-lived, adventuresome magazine that also featured work by Pollock, Rothko, and Still