Aesthetic Excellence Quotes

I try to play, always, beautiful games...always I wanted to create masterpieces.

I want to touch on every form of art and be the best at it and be the biggest at it.

I like to make something beautiful when I run ... it's style. It's doing something better than anyone else. It's being creative.

The grand style arises when beauty wins a victory over the monstrous.

Beauty is at once the ultimate principle and the highest aim of art.

There is no excuse for doing anything which is not strikingly beautiful.

The manifestation of poetry in external life is formal perfection. True sentiment grows within, and art must represent internal phenomena externally.

The art which is grand and yet simple is that which presupposes the greatest elevation both in artist and in public.

It should be quite clear that it is possible for unpleasant people who are small in various ways other than in their artistic genius to produce great art. Art and morality have no necessary connection.

Peter Kubelka is the perfectionist of the film medium; and, as I honor that quality above all others at this time finding such a lack of it now elsewhere, I would simply like to say: Peter Kubelka is the world's greatest filmmaker - which is to say, simply: see his films!...by all means/above all else...etcetera.

I believe that all true art is classic, but the dictates of the mind rarely permit of its being recognized as such when it first appears.

It's the artist's duty to have an artist's life, somehow to obtain time and freedom and then to muster the desire and discipline to make good work out of the life, whether that goodness is in the world's aesthetics, its radicalism, its candor, its singularity, or its universality.

The artist must be like a heart surgeon. He must approach something with sympathy, but with a sort of coldness and work and work until he finds some kind of perfection in his work. You can't have blood splashing all over the place. Things must be done very cleanly.