Quotes

I’m on this earth for a short time; I don’t want to create films that conform to the status quo. I want to make art… Read More »Nonconformist Art

“Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.… Read More »Poetry and Theft

“To the critic, the work of art is simply a suggestion for a new work of his own, that need not necessarily bear any obvious… Read More »Critic as Creator

“Know thyself.” – Ancient Greek aphorism

“Basil [the artist], my dear boy, puts everything that is charming into his work. The consequence is that he has nothing left for life but… Read More »Artists in Life and Work

“I never read a book I must review; it prejudices you so.” – Oscar Wilde (Quoted in How to Talk about Books You Haven’t Read)

“The unexamined life is not worth living.” – Socrates, Plato’s Apology

“My task … is to make you hear, to make you feel– and, above all, to make you see. That is all, and it is… Read More »Artistic Sensory Task

“As illustrated by Oscar Wilde, there is a kind of antinomy between reading and creating, since every reader runs the risk, lost as he is… Read More »Reading vs Creating

“I know only that I know nothing.” – Socrates, paraphrased.