Michael Horse Quotes

Visual presentation of our heritage in glass is needed.

Do cave paintings mean anything? Not really, but I, for one, am happy to have them.

You can create something strong in art with a few notes. It is like how Aboriginal drawings have a simplicity that is incredibly rich.

I believe that the civilization India evolved is not to be beaten in the world. Nothing can equal the seeds sown by our ancestors, Rome went, Greece shared the same fate; the might of the Pharaohs was broken; Japan has become Westernized; of China nothing can be said; but India is still, somehow or other, sound at the foundation.

Shiraz' is an important part of our filmmaking and cultural history.

I truly believe that art can be an agent of change and has been, throughout history, a tool to enlighten the individual and society.

You hold everybody that's Polynesian or Samoan on your shoulders. You want to do your best to represent that in the best way that you can.

A film is not a vehicle to accuse, or to relay a specific message. If we reduce a film to this, we lose all hope for cinema to ignite a richer conversation.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: I think it's really important to remake things. If you never remake the classics, no one would know Shakespeare.

So much of the history of painting is the propaganda of self-aggrandizement.

Art is not journalism. In art, you don't make it to convey a message.

'Khamoshi' gave me the chance to prove that expressions can also say what dialogue could.

My work as a whole is about excavating and shining a light on pieces of history that not only need to be seen and heard, but that can also add to the conversation about what's going on now.

I look at my body as an extension of the music. My body is a canvas, and with my tattoos, I want them to be a direct reflection of my thoughts.

A literary work can only be received through symbols, through concepts - for that is what words are; but cinema, like music, allows for utterly direct, emotional, sensuous perception of the work.

When I did the first edit of Les plages, it was very dry and very square in a way. I was just saying the minimum. I said, Well, if this is the minimum, I don't make it. So I tried to make it more refined. I tried to find images, allegorical images, that I could use to express things that I didn't want to say or didn't want to show or I was not able to find how to show.

A precision of composition and figuration is what I'm working toward. I've always felt viewers should have an experience without having to ask what the hell is was about.

Art may not have the power to change the course of history, but it can provide a perspective on historical events that needs to be heard, even if it's seldom heeded. After all the temporary influences that once directed the course of history have vanished, great art survives and continues to speak to each generation.

We need the expressive arts, the ancient scribes, the storytellers, the priests.

Art is the clothing of a revelation

All passes, Art alone Enduring stays to us; The Bust out-lasts the throne,-- The coin, Tiberius.

The photo collage is a way to travel that must be used with skill and precision if we are to arrive... The collage as a flexible hieroglyph language of juxtaposition: A collage makes a statement.

I'd like to study the drawings of kids. That's where the truth is, without a doubt.

The humans were protecting their heritage, or so they thought. Strange that Mud Men seem more concerned about the past than the present.

Your subjects have had a history - try to reveal it in your picture.