Aesthetics

“Les éloges de mon physique me servirent à comprendre qu'il fallait le combattre.”

“The prototype in nature has got to be seen through terms of art. A metamorphosis has to take place.”

“From the moment you get on a theater stage, from the moment you go up there, on this stage, you become a poem.”

“I prefer my vision until the artist shows me otherwise, which they often do.”

“Because I am an artist, and in the kind of art I believe in and to which I have given my whole allegiance, there is no place for anything that has to do with social, economic or political problems.”

“To make a film is easy, to make a good film is war. To make a very good film is a miracle.”

“It goes out for a walk, so to speak, aimlessly for the sake of the walk.”

“His work ought not to be a dead imitation of things without the power to impress a sentiment, or enforce a truth.”

“The imagination loses vitality as it ceases to adhere to what is real.”

“يا أبناء بلادي... إن تربية الشعور بالجمال تخلق في نفس المرء حتماً حبّ النظام. وإن الفنون هي الأسس الجبارة التي تقوم عليها الأمم، وتُشاد الحضارة، وتُعِدّ النفوس للعمل الكبير.”

“As music is the poetry of sound, so is painting the poetry of sight.”

“Opera is for a lifetime, not just a minute.”

“Jazz is a great big sea.”

“I seldom paint portraits, and when I do I neither please myself nor my employers.”

“You hit that string and it made a crazy sound. It’s very primal.”

“She is an enchanting actress.”

“Without Art Man would scarce be human; with it he rises above the brute and takes a diviner nature.”

“It was the ‘lurch’ part of the sway that I liked.”