Otto Rank Quotes

Through a painting we can see the whole world.

I try to make pictures I would want to see.

I have a desire to create more film, more beauty, more art, more love, but I don't feel desperate. It's not about creating or building a career.

Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.

I always say I make pictures rather than take pictures.

I'm not a politician or a scholar or political historian. I'm just a photographer who's trying to capture a spirit. It's not an intellectual process; it's an intuitive process.

The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

Every picture has its own demands, and every picture stimulates something within you to tell it a certain way. I don't know what that is; I don't think too much about that.

So to me it's very similar in terms of trying to distill within the image, those elements that are gonna form, hopefully, a compelling visual statement.

An artist is somebody who enters into competition with God.

Part of being an artist is being able to write about the world you live in and the times that you've been a part of.

I've done my own videos, I do my own styling, so I feel like I've just always been a visual artist... I was one of those kids who wanted to make my own clothes and take pictures of everything. Everything inspired me, and everything felt like art around me.

Making a movie really frees up the way you think.

Since I started as an actress in the film industry, I realised the power of visuals and how that can fuel the imagination of our mind. It is very powerful. Therefore, I always cater to my own sensibility first and then to the world.

An artist is only an exemplary person if you can see in his works how life goes.

As artists, our job is to communicate thoughts and tell stories.

Life and art are inseparable.

I like art, photography, film - all that creativity.

When the director has a vision for a piece that I've never heard before, and they can back that up with visuals, and they talk a good game, I get really interested in the world that they're trying to create.

To give a body and a perfect form to one's thought, this - and only this - is to be an artist.

Fine art is knowledge made visible.

For me, Picasso was the ultimate man. He taught me that photography is all about how you approach an image: what you do and what you don't do. He inspired me to go beyond what you think is in front of you.

Drawing is still basically the same as it has been since prehistoric times. It brings together man and the world. It lives through magic.

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

I dream crazy vivid dreams. Like, entire movies. And sometimes I write songs about them.