Werner Herzog Quotes

That's the miracle of telling a story in film: You can express something inside someone's mind.

Every landscape is, as it were, a state of the soul, and whoever penetrates into both is astonished to find how much likeness there is in each detail.

I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body.

Acting is not about being famous, it's about exploring the human soul.

It's very dependent on your state of mind. And your emotional state as well. And a lot of it comes pouring out, you don't really have that much control with it.

A person sets out to write a poem for a variety of reasons: to win the heart of his beloved; to express his attitude toward the reality surrounding him, be it a landscape or a state; to capture his state of mind at a given instant; to leave - as he thinks at that moment - a trace on the earth.

It is possibly not very helpful to our inner life to ponder a great deal on how the external world is reflected in our soul. By doing so, we do not get beyond a shadowy picture of the world of mental images in ourselves.

I'm very interested in cinema that explores emotional journeys and where you can use everything at your disposal cinematically to locate you inside someone's head and their emotional landscape.

They're odd beasts, musicals, but what I like about them is the way they allow windows into people's lives. When people sing, you get an opportunity to see a vulnerability, a glimpse of a life in a messed-up head.

Give to each emotion a personality, to each state of mind a soul.

We can see nothing whatever of the soul unless it is visible in the expression of the countenance; one might call the faces at a large assembly of people a history of the human soul written in a kind of Chinese ideograms.

Emotions are the colors of the soul.

If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.

I feel that the surrealists have created a series of valid external landscapes which have their direct correspondences within our own minds.

To feel the soul without explaining it, without vocabulary, and to represent this sensation.

You give, actually, what you have in your inner world through your emotion and feeling. That's what you can give; it's not so much about "acting" in a sense of playing something that's very different to you.

People act on the outside the way they feel on the inside.

The genius of the primitive mind is that it can render human helplessness in noble and beautiful ways.

...one emotion after another crept into her face like objects into a slowly developing picture.

Literature is not only a mirror; it is a map, a geography of the mind.

Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.

I do not like detached creation. Neither can I conceive of the mind as detached from itself. Each of my works, each diagram of myself, each glacial flowering of my inmost soul dribbles over me.

It is hard for the human soul not to love something, and our mind must of necessity be drawn to some kind of affection.

The folktale is the primer of the picture-language of the soul.

The human mind, in taking us down the path of technocracy, has become the adversary of life itself and collaterally the adversary of the human soul.