Harmony Korine Quotes

For me, I am still very happy to be able to do stage design as it's an opportunity to express the extreme.

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!

The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

At its best, film should be like a ski jump. It should give the viewer the option of taking flight, while the act of jumping is left up to him.

Directors sometimes have good ideas that I wished I'd had, not on rewriting but simply on staging.

Art gives me the freedom I don't have when I make music.

I've always been somebody who, when I started a picture, never knew what the next picture would be.

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.

You can be moved by an animated film and not by a live action film. There could be great inspiration in and humanity in that animated story.

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

One longs for a director with a sense of imagination.

I feel lucky that I've been able to make a living from painting any idea that comes into my head.

The downside of videos is that it will put my vision in front of other people, so they might not get the chance to create their own.

I love being creative in all forms.

My parents always pushed creativity on us, but they made it seem like the fun thing to do.

I share something in common with Norman Rockwell and, for that matter, with Walt Disney, in that I really like to make people happy.

I love to create, and to me, the ultimate freedom of expression is a blank canvas or a block of clay to capture whatever emotions your imagination gives it.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

Be drawn to the visual arts for it can expand your imagination.

Because even very young people are expert readers of pictures, you can convey very complex and subtle messages through pictures that you'd need loads of words to explain. Making a picture book is also a bit like making your own film - and you can make anything you want happen, however impossible!

I might be writing what people expect me to write, writing from that place where I might be ruled by economic considerations. To overcome that, I started working with my dreams, because I'm not so censored when I use dream material.

I get to experiment with a lot of looks with my character so that's really fun for me. It's like getting to paint a new canvas everyday.

I'm not very aware of styles. We never talk about styles before we start shooting, or even during shooting, because I think the film will bring you there.

I already have legitimacy as a filmmaker and now I'm trying to do stuff that's just fun. Until I find a cool tangible subject again that I want to tackle.

The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.