“What you have now is a Hollywood that is pure poison. Hollywood was a central place in the history of art in the 20th century: it was human idealism preserved. And then, like any great place, it collapsed, and it collapsed into the most awful machinery in the world.”
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“I have a small house so I borrow everything except art, that's what I love.”
“I think people should be given a test much like driver's tests as to whether they're capable of being parents! It's an art form. I talk a lot. And I think a lot. And I draw a lot. But never in a million years would I have been a parent. That's just work that's too hard.”
“I owe much to mother. She had an expert's understanding, but also approached art emotionally.”
“Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.”
“Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.”
“For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep feeling of anxiety which I have tried to express in my art.”
“If you cannot learn to love real art at least learn to hate sham art.”
“The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.”
“Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.”
“Fashion often starts off beautiful and becomes ugly, whereas art starts off ugly sometimes and becomes beautiful.”
“The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.”
“Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.”
“What matters poverty? What matters anything to him who is enamoured of our art? Does he not carry in himself every joy and every beauty?”
“Film is a very young art that is still evolving. Soon, we shall reach a balance between content and technology.”
“All I owe the world is my art.”
“Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it.”
“Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion. Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art.”
“When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony.”
“I like the fact that in ancient Chinese art the great painters always included a deliberate flaw in their work: human creation is never perfect.”
“I'm not dead and I don't have blue hair but some people say there are similarities. It is usually intolerable to watch myself onscreen but this time it's fine. I think it's beautiful and a real work of art.”
“More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.”
“Every man should follow the bent of his nature in art and letters, always provided that he does not offend against the rules of morality and good taste.”
“He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming.”