Svetlana Alexievich Quotes

What I wish to show when I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart.

My music is my way to rearrange the world according to my own hopes.

I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.

I need my 'art work' or 'entertainment work' or whatever to have empathy for or connection to the way I experience the world as a person.

The purpose of art is to accumulate the human within the human being.

As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings

The true painter strives to paint what can only be seen through his world.

I have a completely romantic idea about making paintings, I guess.

[When making movies I] set out to be authentic to [myself] and to put it down the way [I] feel it and know it and interpret it. And then others sometimes key into it and get it.

A painter may be looking at the world in a way which is very different from everyone else. If he's a craftsman, he can get other people to see the world through his eyes, and so he enlarges our vision, perception, and there's great value in that.

I have tried to present my sensations in what is the most congenial and impressive form possible to me.

My pictures are my eyes. I photograph what I see - and what I want to see.

I don't really consider myself an impressionist.

Art is the way people see things, and I think it's great when individuals can find in fashion something they truly believe is artistic.

I write based on how I feel.

I want to make films without a single clear message, and films that are as close as possible to what it feels like to be alive. At least to me.

Knowing how to paint and to use one's colors rightly has not any connection with originality. This originality consists in properly expressing your own impressions.

I wanted to do different movies. I wanted to do deeper movies. More human movies based on human feelings.

I don't think I'm making any great statements, and I certainly don't think I'm making art.

As long as you're true to you, you believe it and you make others believe it, then what you're doing is just art. If you give everybody a blank canvas and some paint, not everybody's picture is going to be exactly the same, but it's still art. I just do what I do.

I just wanted to be an artist. I didn't care how or what; I just wanted to express my artistic integrity, and I wanted the world to have a vision of what I was seeing in my mind.

A style is not a matter of camera angles or fancy footwork, it's an expression, an accurate expression of your particular opinion.

Well, I'm an artist to the core. And my objective has always been to use my talents and my skills to elevate humanity through my art.

Beauty is what I feel my life is about - the garden, the house, whatever. I see the world that way, yet it isn't.

My purpose is to make films that will help people to live, even if they sometimes cause unhappiness.