Alexander Kluge Quotes

My focus is anything that allows me to express myself. Rap, dance, photography. Those are my forms of expression.

If you have something to say, a movie is a really great medium to say it. It doesn't matter what the message is.

The interesting part about being an artist is that the ways in which you express yourself are not always readily available.

If you were to say to me that I couldn't paint, I would write. If I couldn't write, I would be a set designer. As long as I'm creating something, I'm happy.

I am here on Earth to express myself, and the many media of art are my magic carpets that allow me the freedom to do so.

My best days do seem like a distillation of all that was best about school. Write a story! Paint a picture! Write a poem! Make a print!

I love graffiti because it enables kids from every social extraction to do something that brings them closer to art, when they normally wouldn't be stimulated to be visually creative. Graffiti helps to develop an awareness of immediate expressive and uncontrolled freedom.

The only thing in life that really gives me any peace is just being lost in the process of creating something, whether it's the film or painting and drawing, which has been a big part of my life, for a long time.

Film is just a great medium to express yourself and a great environment to work around.

I needed an outlet in high school and came across painting. I've actually been painting longer than I've been acting. A movie is a collaborative effort, and with painting you just have yourself.

I really understand what that process is all about and how important it is, especially with young folk and creative folk that love looking for some platform that makes it easier for them to express themselves.

Because there is so little room for expression otherwise, a lot of people love cinema because they find it a way of expressing themselves.

I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do - that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first did it, I felt very perverse.

I got into filmmaking in order to tell very personal stories, and in this day and age, the opportunity seems all the more precious.

Whatever one considers art to be, there is in many people a hunger to express themselves creatively and to feel authentic in doing that.

Regardless of the medium, be it television or feature or documentary, I'm not gonna distinguish and worry about my particular canon, whatever that means.

People ask, like, 'How are you going to incorporate what you do onstage into everything else?' I'm not too worried about that. Whether it's theater or a TV show idea, or an animated thing or, I don't know, an animated screensaver. I really just want to keep creating things. And I've always been able to do that.

When you think about it, media's the intersection of content and technology - it's all about storytelling, like photography and the camera.

I think a guitar solo is how my emotion is most freely released, because verbal articulation isn't my strongest communication strength. My wife thinks that I should do interviews by listening to the questions and playing the answer on guitar.

Painting, music, photography, and visual art have been creative forms of expression for me for decades.

For me, collages manage to - it satisfies all of my madness, like I'm able to make these obsessive things, but then I'm also able to make these very strong statements. I don't know what they mean to other people, but in my mind, they have a very strong particular resonance; there's sort of a power.

I really like the art of music, the way that you can express yourself through music.

I love this freedom that has been given to me as an artist to express myself.

Whatever I ended up picking or choosing was always going to be a creative outlet for me.

Freedom is the thing that has attracted me most to jazz. Within improvisation, you're really able to express something that maybe I'm not so adept at expressing via language. So I develop a language through the instrument to tell stories. So it's kind of this freedom of thought and freedom of expression that kind happens.