Joseph Joubert Quotes

A picture is a poem without words.

Painting is but another word for feeling.

I've always been drawn to artists who paint for the everyday person. I love the American illustrators.

Art is more engaging that propaganda.

To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.

Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.

My duty is to try to reach beauty. Cinema is emotion. When you laugh you cry.

From the age of six I wanted to be an artist. At that point I meant a painter, but it turned out what I really meant was I was someone who was very interested in watching the world and making copies of it.

Just like music, I consider wrestling to be an art form, and I have a vision of what that art should look like.

Art is great. At its best, it engages the intellect and challenges the spirit; it connects us across history and reminds us of our humanity.

The cinema is an explosion of my love for reality.

Art begins when a man wishes to immortalize the most vivid moment he has ever lived.

A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.

Neither is there figurative and non-figurative art. All things appear to us in the shape of forms. Even in metaphysics ideas are expressed by forms. Well then, think how absurd it would be to think of painting without the imagery of forms. A figure, an object, a circle, are forms; they affect us more or less intensely.

Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.

Art is science in the flesh.

The contest between form and content is what, is what art is about - it's art history. That's what basically everybody has ever contended with. The problem is uniquely complex in still photography.

One reason I was interested in photography was to get away from the preciousness of the art object.

Art is - representing the beautiful. There must be Art in everything.

Filmmaking is really connected to life and all of the expressions that different arts found to allow access to life. Filmmaking touches on all of it.

The photography is not the aim of the work; the articulation of the work through photography is another way of understanding what's going on and what's happening outside.

Why then we should drop into poetry.

The only thing emanating from my pictures should be emotion.

Love is the reality, and poetry is the drum.

To photograph: it is to put on the same line of sight the head, the eye and the heart.