Wong Kar-wai Quotes

Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics.

A poem can use anything to talk about anything.

Let me put it this way. There is more to acting than just acting like somebody. I like to act in such a way that other people get some notion of what it's like to be somebody.

I am not a genre-based artist.

I love to create, and to me, the ultimate freedom of expression is a blank canvas or a block of clay to capture whatever emotions your imagination gives it.

Of course you can find something exciting and dynamic in any character you want to portray.

Characters don't belong to anyone, not even the person who plays them.

Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.

Till now poets were privileged to insert a certain proportion of nonsense - very far in excess of one-half of one per cent - into their otherwise sober documents.

Would that we could at once paint with the eyes! In the long way from the eye through the arm to the pencil, how much is lost!

I get to experiment with a lot of looks with my character so that's really fun for me. It's like getting to paint a new canvas everyday.

Literature is the question minus the answer.

Sometimes it works. Sometimes I feel like playing 'Hospital'. Sometimes I feel like playing 'Pablo Picasso'. I've been playing a lot lately. I do it as long as I feel like it.

A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have.

I'm a magpie in my fiction, taking whatever looks shiny and curious to line the nest of my story.

Once they're on paper, they're gone. I like to do as much with the words, as far as image goes.

Art is more engaging that propaganda.

With most of the songs and music that I've composed, irrespective of the myriad videos made, I was always careful not to overly define the experience, leaving room for people to internalize things for themselves, making their experience more integral.

There is a large element of me in every role I do.

I feel like when I'm on stage, when I'm writing songs, singing songs, I'm in the studio, I'm shooting videos, I kind of get to become this character, and I can make that whatever I want to make that.

To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.

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

There are websites of 'True Detective' artwork out there now, and it's beautiful. And I don't want to take that away from anybody. I know what it means to me. But I don't want to take away anyone's interpretation of the show.

And at least in poetry you should feel free to lie. That is, not to lie, but to imagine what you want, to follow the direction of the poem.

Statues and pictures and verse may be grand, But they are not the Life for which they stand.