top of page
.png){kind=small}
"I received from my experience in Japan an incredible sense of respect for the art of creating, not just the creative product. We're all about the product. To me, the process was also an incredibly important aspect of the total form."
Standard
Customized
More
"The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Create with the heart, build with the mind."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Art in the blood is liable to take the strongest forms."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things. The highest as the lowest form of criticism is a mode of autobiography. Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault."
Author Name
Personal Development
"He would argue with her about killing themselves; and explain how wicked people were; how he could see them making up lies as they passed in the street. He knew all their thoughts, he said; he knew everything. He knew the meaning of the world, he said."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Freedom and fullness of expression are of the essence of the art."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"I really do believe that if you don't challenge yourself and risk failing, that it's not interesting."
Challenge
"Theater is far superior to film in poetry, in abstract poetry."
Poetry
"It's people who are repressed and cannot express their fears that are dangerous."
People
"You program music with an image and then people are desensitized."
Music
"I'm not going to spend two years on a film or four years on an opera if I don't feel like I can put my own self into it. That doesn't mean it has to be about myself."
Film
"One of the reasons I love to jump back and forth between mediums is that film does allow me to be more literal. I can go to the real place. I can go to the Coliseum, and I don't have to fake it."
Love
"But I don't think there has ever been anything written on the nature of violent man as deep and as thorough as Shakespeare's Titus. I think it puts all modern movies and modern exploitations of violence to shame."
Movies
"When I was thinking about The Lion King, I said, we have to do what theater does best. What theater does best is to be abstract and not to do literal reality."
Reality
"And I just think that to introduce an unknown Shakespeare is thrilling, too - not to do Hamlet or Romeo and Juliet, to do the richer Shakespeare. People will come to this and not know the story."
People
"You know, I went to Oberlin. At that time, grades were - you elected to have them or not. It was all of that era where grades were out the window. But I did very well in school. I didn't really study the arts; I practiced the arts."
Time
bottom of page