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"Poetry is an art that uses words to paint vivid pictures of perceptions and emotions."

"Be an artist in everything you do."

"Art is a relection of the mind and a vision of the heart."

"She lives in the poetry she cannot write."

"Art is the reflection of an imaginative mind."

"This is almost always the case: A piece of art receives its f(r)ame when found offensive."
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"Unless it's done superbly, as in the Japanese film Gate of Hell, color can be a very distracting element."

"But it has, in addition, an even more precious quality - a consciousness of the human intelligence, the human spirit and that man is a social creature."

"The good moral work of art should have all the qualities that a good amoral work of art should have, such as formal unity, balance, contrast, and a sensitivity to the material out of which it is made."

"By drawing or exposing two or more patterns on the same bit of film I can create harmony and textual effects."

"I have tried to preserve in my relationship to the film the same closeness and intimacy that exists between a painter and his canvas."

"And so my militant philosophy is this: to make with a brush on canvas is a simple direct delight-to make with the movie is the same."

"Take a film of Jacques Tati like Mon Oncle which has something quite new - for me, unique - in it."
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