Jane Campion Quotes

When I see a colour or hear a sound, I am aware of something, and not of nothing.

The senses don't just make sense of life in bold or subtle acts of clarity, they tear reality apart into vibrant morsels and reassemble them into a meaningful pattern.

Never try to convey your idea to the audience - it is a thankless and senseless task. Show them life, and they'll find within themselves the means to assess and appreciate it.

A hallucination is a species of reality, as capable of teaching you as a videotape about Kilimanjaro or anything else that falls through your life.

A camera is a tool for learning how to see without a camera.

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.

I think stories can grow out of the visual. It can be an engine for literacy.

A camera teaches you how to see without a camera.

I was aware that the teaching of drawing was being stopped almost 30 years ago. And I always said, 'The teaching of drawing is the teaching of looking.' A lot of people don't look very hard.

I feel that every day, all of us now are being blasted by information design. It's being poured into our eyes through the Web, and we're all visualizers now; we're all demanding a visual aspect to our information. There's something almost quite magical about visual information. It's effortless; it literally pours in.

Photography helps people to see.

The thing is that pictures are everywhere. The question is what we don't see, and why don't we see so much. I just see it.

Movies aren't just supposed to be a representation of reality. They're supposed to be an art.

But with comics you're reading and assimilating an image simultaneously, instead of just reading or watching the tube.

What is it about animation, graphics, illustrations, that create meaning? And this is an important question to ask and answer because the more we understand how the brain creates meaning, the better we can communicate, and, I also think, the better we can think and collaborate together.

Unfortunately, one picture is worth a thousand facts.

If I really believe that visual representation and narrative are ways to convey important, complex ideas, and if the world is gravitating toward this form, then geez, I better do it myself. I want to do it myself.

This is why fiction is an art, and life is not - how much more affecting is the lie than the truth.

Much of the way we understand the world is through images. That's what I think good art does - it teaches you how to see the historical moment that you live in.

I thought of a high school report I did on the Belgian artist Rene Magritte and a quote I once read from him, something about his favorite walk being the one he took around his own bedroom. He said that he never understood the need for people to travel because all the poetry and perspective you're ever going to get you already posses. Anais Nin had the same idea. We see the world as we are. So if it's the same brain we bring with us every time we open our eyes, what's the difference if we're looking at an island cove or a pocket watch?

The film is the first art form capable of demonstrating how matter plays tricks on man.

I'm interested in storytelling. I love being an artist now and connecting through art.

The facts, even the real ones, must be imagined before they can be stated.

Photography doesn't teach you to express your emotions; it teaches you how to see.

In our daily lives we attend primarily to that which the senses are spelling out for us: to what the eyes perceive, to what the fingers touch. Reality to us is thinghood , consisting of substances that occupy space; even God is conceived by most of us as a thing. The result of our thinginess is our blindness to all reality that fails to identify itself as a thing, as a matter of fact.