Quotes about art
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Terry Gilliamborn 1940About Hollywood. As quoted in the New York Times article Terry Gilliam’s Feel-Good Endings (14 August 2005)- Terry Gilliamborn 1940Interview to TCM comparing the work of Steven Spielberg and Stanley Kubrick (2009)
Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.
Jean-Luc Godard1930–2022Source: “What Is Cinema?” Les Amis du Cinéma (Paris, 1 October 1952)She left me because of my many faults; I left her because I couldn’t talk movies with her.
Jean-Luc Godard1930–2022On his first wife Anna Karina, as quoted in “An Exile in Paradise” by Richard Brody, The New Yorker (20 November 2000)
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe1749–1832Wilhelm Meister’s Lehrjahre (Apprenticeship) (1786–1830), Bk. V, Ch. 1There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe1749–1832Maxims and Reflections (1833), Maxim 1031, trans. Stopp
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe1749–1832Maxims and Reflections (1833), Maxim 61, trans. Stopp
What dazzles, for the Moment spends its spirit:
What’s genuine, shall Posterity inherit.
Vincent van Gogh1853–1890Letter, Tuesday, 18 September 1888; as cited in Van Gogh: The Self-portraits (1969) by Fritz Erpel, p. 17.
Emma Goldman1869–1940Intellectual Proletarians (1914)The most valiant thing you can do as an artist is inspire someone else to be creative.
Joseph Gordon-Levittborn 1981Details, 2010Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.
All along the backwater,
Through the rushes tall,
Ducks are a-dabbling,
Up tails all!
