Stanley Kubrick Quotes
In any case, once you're dealing on a nonverbal level, ambiguity is unavoidable. But it's the ambiguity of all art, of a fine piece of music or a painting - you don't need written instructions by the composer or painter accompanying such works to 'explain' them. “Explaining” them contributes nothing but a superficial 'cultural' value which has no value except for critics and teachers who have to earn a living.
Kubrick, Stanley. Interview by Joseph Gelmis. The Film Director as Superstar, by Joseph Gelmis, Doubleday, 1970.
Randell, a Nobel Laureate brain scientist, is also an art collector, and has studied the brain’s reaction to different kinds of art. There are some people who become so distressed with the burden of using their imagination and expecting not to have to do so, do not have a more intense experience or much of an experience at all as the reject the notion of using their imagination. They see that as the artist’s job and we say of those people that they do not care for abstract art.
Stanley Kubrick was an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and photographer. He is frequently cited as one of the greatest filmmakers in cinematic history. His films, which are mostly adaptations of novels or short stories, cover a wide range of genres, and are noted for their realism, dark humor, unique cinematography, extensive set designs, and evocative use of music.
