148 Best Art Quotes

I want to top myself. That's my goal. Other people don't really matter. – Quentin Tarantino
Quentin Tarantino Ambition Competition Self-Improvement Drive Art
I'm not a politician. I'm a storyteller. – Quentin Tarantino
Quentin Tarantino Storytelling Art Role purpose Politics
I want to make movies that are remembered. – Quentin Tarantino
Quentin Tarantino Legacy Impact Memory Cinema Art
I don't make movies to make money. I make movies to make movies. – Quentin Tarantino
Quentin Tarantino Passion purpose Art commerce Integrity
I'm not interested in making a message movie. I'm interested in telling a story. – Quentin Tarantino
Quentin Tarantino story message Entertainment Art purpose
Theatrical movies are one of the last mass-experience mediums we have. – Christopher Nolan
Christopher Nolan Cinema Experience Art Community
I don't make movies to make money; I make money to make more movies. – Steven Spielberg
Steven Spielberg Art Passion commerce purpose filmmaking
I think the audience is the final collaborator. – Steven Spielberg
Steven Spielberg audience Collaboration filmmaking Interpretation Art
I'm not a politician. I'm a filmmaker. My job is to hold a mirror up to the world, not to change it. – Steven Spielberg
Steven Spielberg filmmaking Reflection Art Responsibility Observation
I try to make movies for myself, but I also make them for the audience. It's a very delicate balance. – Steven Spielberg
Steven Spielberg audience self-expression Balance filmmaking Art
I don't think there's any science to being a good storyteller. I think it's an instinct. – Steven Spielberg
Steven Spielberg Storytelling Instinct Art Intuition Craft
What is drama but life with the dull bits cut out? – Alfred Hitchcock
Alfred Hitchcock Drama Life Essence Storytelling Art
There is something more important than logic: imagination. – Alfred Hitchcock
Alfred Hitchcock Imagination Logic Creativity Intuition Art
For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake. – Alfred Hitchcock
Alfred Hitchcock Cinema Art Entertainment escapism Philosophy
Unless you have a really good reason to make a film, it's not worth the trouble. – Akira Kurosawa
Akira Kurosawa purpose filmmaking intention Art Motivation
The most important asset I have is my intuition. – Akira Kurosawa
Akira Kurosawa Intuition Creativity Instinct guidance Art
There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself. – Akira Kurosawa
Akira Kurosawa Creation Art creator Expression Legacy
I like silent pictures and I always have. They are often much more beautiful than sound pictures are. – Akira Kurosawa
Akira Kurosawa silent film Beauty Cinema visual storytelling Art
A film is a picture of the wind. You can't photograph the wind itself, but you can photograph its effect on the world. – Akira Kurosawa
Akira Kurosawa film Art subtlety effect Representation
There is something that might be called the beauty of sorrow. No one can paint it as well as the Japanese. – Akira Kurosawa
Akira Kurosawa Sorrow Beauty Japanese culture Art Aesthetics
I have never once made a film with a preconceived message. – Akira Kurosawa
Akira Kurosawa message Storytelling Art Interpretation subtlety
When you are shooting a film, you are creating a new world. – Akira Kurosawa
Akira Kurosawa filmmaking Creation world-building Reality Art
Cinema is a frame. Within that frame, you can capture reality, or you can create a new one. – Akira Kurosawa
Akira Kurosawa Cinema frame Reality Creation Art
The essence of a good film is that it makes you forget you are sitting in a theater. – Akira Kurosawa
Akira Kurosawa film Immersion escapism Art audience
To say a film is good or bad is like saying a piece of music is good or bad. It depends on what it does to you. – Francis Ford Coppola
Francis Ford Coppola film Criticism subjectivity Art Perception
An essential element of any art is risk. – Francis Ford Coppola
Francis Ford Coppola Art Risk necessity Creation Courage
I think that cinema is a language, and it can say things that are very complex. – Francis Ford Coppola
Francis Ford Coppola Cinema Language Complexity Communication Art
Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity. – Francis Ford Coppola
Francis Ford Coppola Art Time Legacy Eternity relevance
Part of the problem with American cinema today is that the films are made by committees. – Francis Ford Coppola
Francis Ford Coppola American cinema committees Art commerce Compromise
The best kind of movie is one that you can watch over and over again and always find something new. – Francis Ford Coppola
Francis Ford Coppola film rewatchability Depth Complexity Art
I'm more interested in the truth than in the facts. – Francis Ford Coppola
Francis Ford Coppola Truth facts Storytelling Essence Art
The creation of a single world comes from a huge number of fragments and chaos. – Hayao Miyazaki
Hayao Miyazaki Creation world-building Chaos fragments Art Process
I don't think about the audience when I make my films. I make them for myself. – Hayao Miyazaki
Hayao Miyazaki audience self-expression Authenticity Art Creation
The power to create something comes from the frustration of not being able to express yourself. – Hayao Miyazaki
Hayao Miyazaki Creation Frustration Expression Motivation Art
I try to put as much of my real self as possible into my films. – Hayao Miyazaki
Hayao Miyazaki Authenticity self-expression Art Honesty filmmaking
When you are creating, you are living. – Hayao Miyazaki
Hayao Miyazaki Creation Life purpose Vitality Art
I think animation is something that should not be confined to children. It should be enjoyed by everyone. – Hayao Miyazaki
Hayao Miyazaki Animation audience Art Universality Medium
The beauty of the medium is that you can take something that is ugly and find a way to make it beautiful. – David Fincher
David Fincher Beauty ugliness Transformation Art Medium
You have to be willing to be disliked. You have to be willing to make people uncomfortable. – David Fincher
David Fincher Discomfort Leadership conviction unpopularity Art
I think that the enemy of art is fear. – Denis Villeneuve
Denis Villeneuve Art fear enemy Creativity inhibition
Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls. – Ingmar Bergman
Ingmar Bergman film Dream Music Art Conscience feelings Soul
Only someone who is well prepared has the opportunity to improvise. – Ingmar Bergman
Ingmar Bergman Preparation Improvisation Opportunity Craft Art
No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul. – Ingmar Bergman
Ingmar Bergman Art film Consciousness Emotions Soul Depth
It is my opinion that art lost its creative urge the moment it was separated from worship. – Ingmar Bergman
Ingmar Bergman Art Worship Creativity Spirituality Loss
I don't want to produce a work of art that the public can sit and suck aesthetically. I want to give them a blow in the small of the back, to scorch their indifference, to startle them out of their complacency. – Ingmar Bergman
Ingmar Bergman Art audience Impact provocation complacency
What is art? A question that has been asked for centuries. For me, art is the human capacity to make something wonderful and unique. – Ingmar Bergman
Ingmar Bergman Art definition Humanity capacity Wonder
I have never thought about the audience. For me, the audience doesn't exist. – Ingmar Bergman
Ingmar Bergman audience Creation Art self-expression Indifference
The actor is the most direct and immediate instrument of the art of the theater. – Ingmar Bergman
Ingmar Bergman actor instrument theater Art Directness
📋 Quote copied!