“The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Quote

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

None of the people have any real interest in a science, who only begin to be enthusiastic about it when they themselves have made discoveries in it.

Without music, life would be a mistake.

The greatest danger that always hovered over humanity, and still hovers over it, is the eruption of madness— which means the eruption of arbitrariness in feeling, seeing, and hearing, the enjoyment of the mind's lack of discipline, the joy in human unreason.

I never know what I'm going to put on the canvas. The canvas paints itself. I'm just the middleman.

Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.

All art is political in the sense that it serves someone's politics.

Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.

Every single art form is involved in film, in a way.