Takeshi Kitano Quotes

I think everything's fair in art and how you perceive a character.

When you draw or paint a tree, you do not imitate the tree; you do not copy it exactly as it is, which would be mere photography. To be free to paint a tree or a flower or a sunset, you have to feel what it conveys to you: the significance, the meaning of it.

You know, I just don't believe that art is supposed to make sense. I really don't think it's supposed to be analyzed to death. It's left to the listener or looker to get what they can get from it.

I've never found anything to be lacking in a blurry canvas. Quite the contrary: you can see many more things in it than in a sharply focused image. A landscape painted with exactness forces you to see a determined number of clearly differentiated trees, while in a blurry canvas you can perceive as many trees as you want. The painting is more open.

Art is so subjective, and people can react however they want.

I am not an intellectual. An intellectual is someone who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso, whereas I just say 'pass the mustard'.

The worst sin that can be committed against the artist is to take him at his word, to see in his work a fulfillment instead of an horizon.

A picture is the expression of an impression. If the beautiful were not in us, how would we ever recognize it?

I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.

Art knows neither doctrine nor idea; its nature is to show.

Turns out Picasso's passion for uncertainty, mystery, and the thrill of life never ended.

Art is commenting on what's going on around you in your life.

Art is the most beautiful of all lies.

Everyone is of course free to interpret the work in his own way. I think seeing a picture is one thing and interpreting it is another.

Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature.

Whether art is defined as a representation of or response to reality, it demands an intense engagement with things we haven't managed to understand fully.

The world doesn't need an artist who shows reality as it is.

In art it is always as though the question is what the work of art is really about.

Art is truth.

Art can go beyond certain boundaries or blindness that we would have without that.

What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.

In spite the mountains of books written about art, no precise definition of art has been constructed. And the reason for this is that the conception of art has been based on the conception of beauty.

I don't have anything to say in any picture. My only interest in photography is to see what something looks like as a photograph. I have no preconceptions.

I would simply ask why so many critics, so many writers, so many philosophers take such satisfaction in professing that the experience of a work of art is ineffable, that it escapes by definition all rational understanding; why are they so eager to concede without a struggle the defeat of knowledge; and where does their irrepressible need to belittle rational understanding come from, this rage to affirm the irreducibility of the work of art, or, to use a more suitable word, its transcendence.

There's no such thing as a bad photograph.