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It is obvious that art cannot teach anyone anything, since in four thousand years humanity has learnt nothing at all. We should long ago have become a...more

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If you throw even a cursory glance into the past, at the life which lies behind you, not even recalling its most vivid moments, you are struck every t...more

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Clearly the hardest thing for the working artist is to create his own conception and follow it, unafraid of the strictures it imposes, however rigid t...more

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The artist has a duty to be calm. He has no right to show his emotion, his involvement, to go pouring it all out at the audience. Any excitement over ...more

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Man is born unto the trouble as the sparks fly upwards.' In other words suffering is germane to our existence; indeed, how without it, should we be ab...more

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My objective is to create my own world and these images which we create mean nothing more than the images which they are. We have forgotten how to rel...more

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Art is by nature aristocratic, and naturally selective in its effect on the audience. For even in its 'collective' manifestations, like theatre or cin...more

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Poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way of relating to reality.

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...art must must carry man's craving for the ideal, must be an expression of his reaching out towards it; that art must give man hope and faith. And t...more

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No other art can compare with cinema in the force, precision, and starkness with which it conveys awareness of facts and aesthetic structures existing...more

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Masterpieces, not always distinguished or distinguishable among all the works with pretensions to genius, are scattered about the world like warning n...more