Quotes about art
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After ‘The Matrix,’ I cannot wear sunglasses. As soon as I put them on, people recognise me.
A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.
Robert Frost1874–1963BBC Interview with Cecil Day Lewis (13 September 1957); transcripts published in “It Takes a Hero to Make a Poem” in the Claremont Quarterly (Spring 1958)Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.
A poet needs a pen, a painter a brush, and a filmmaker an army.
The movies that are the easiest to make are the hardest to watch.
The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
Alfred Hitchcock1899–1980Quoted by Dana Ullman in The One-minute (or So) Healer: 500 Simple Ways to Heal Yourself Naturally p. 43No matter what they’re charging to get in, it’s worth more to get out.
Roger Ebert1942–2013Review of Armageddon (1 July 1998)Somone lying back getting a wank absolutely should be something we see in cinema.
Pablo Picasso1881–1973Picasso quoted in ‘TIME’; quoted in: The Atlantic, Vol. 214 (1964), p. 97.A painter is a man who paints what he sells. An artist, however, is a man that sells what he paints.
Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.
