Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls. 1.11K
There are neither good nor bad subjects. From the point of view of pure Art, you could almost establish it as an axiom that the subject is irrelevant, style itself being an absolute manner of seeing things. 1.91K
Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable. 643
Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building. 695
Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can’t invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes. 621
Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say. 614
Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love – to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved. 1.49K
I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school. 673
Piano playing is a dying art. I love the fact that I can be one guy with one instrument evoking an emotional and musical experience. 764
Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority. 1.12K
