Tucker Max Quotes

Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature.

A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world.

The more accurately one can illuminate a particular human experience, the better the work of art.

Cinema and the arts invite viewers to focus on a story and, in doing so, peel away its layers and peer into the depths of the human soul.

What makes art powerful is a flash of recognition, a frightening encounter with something familiar about the human condition.

What does art mean to me? I never really think about the 'meaning' of art. Yet, obviously, that's what I do.

Artwork is a representation of our devotion to life.

We want people to experience art and think about it. The art reflects our time, it is about our culture.

Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Art evokes emotion. It doesn't have to be a thing of beauty.

We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art.

Art should be life. It's an imitation of life. It should have some humanity in it.

Like all art, nonfiction film should invite, seduce, or force us to confront the most difficult, frightening or mysterious aspects of what it means to be human.

With Eric Rohmer - as with Mozart, Austen, James, and Proust - we need to remember that art is seldom about life, or not quite about life. Art is about discovery and design and reasoning with chaos.

The poem, the song, the picture, is only water drawn from the well of the people, and it should be given back to them in a cup of beauty so that they may drink - and in drinking understand themselves.

Art is about the dynamics of the human experience.

What mattered to Abu was the music of the sentence. 'A shadow does not belong to the object that casts it.' To Abu, it was a little poem. And in general, it was the poetics, the music of things that tossed his confetti.

Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made - I try to act in the gap.

I think that's what all art is for - for people to express what it is to be human. That's the purpose of it.

I think that films or indeed any art work should be made in a way that they are infinitely viewable; so that you could go back to it time and time again, not necessarily immediately but over a space of time, and see new things in it, or new ways of looking at it.

The modern work of art, as I have said, is a symbol.

The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.

Art has to be reflective of our society.

Many artists use their own lives as a kind of case study to examine what it's like to be human.

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.