Akira Kurosawa on art

I like silent pictures and I always have. They are often so much more beautiful than sound pictures are. Perhaps they had to be.

Human beings are unable to be honest with themselves about themselves. They cannot talk about themselves without embellishing.

Although human beings are incapable of talking about themselves with total honesty, it is much harder to avoid the truth while pretending to be other people.

If music be the food of love, play on.

William Shakespeare1564–1616Twelfth Night (1601), Act I, scene i.In context

• Love
• Music

Poetry is what gets lost in translation.

Robert Frost1874–1963

• Poetry

Music makes one feel so romantic⁠—at least it always gets on one’s nerves⁠—which is the same thing nowadays.

Oscar Wilde1854–1900

• Love
• Music