Aesthetic Impact Quotes

Music is definitely influential on how I approach my scenes.

A work of art must carry in itself its complete significance and impose it upon the beholder even before he can identify the subject-matter.

When I went to university, I finally got exposed to European films, and they had a strong impact on me. I felt those films had a lot of things to say that weren't getting expressed in the films I was used to seeing.

Art is not supposed to change the world, to change practical things, but to change perceptions. Art can change the way we see the world. Art can create an analogy.

Artwork, films, TV - it's always informed my work, no matter what I'm working on.

Film has always been a really good tool for me to communicate emotion about why I create a collection. I'm probably one of the first designers to make short films.

Visual storytelling is at once immediate and subversive.

Every Chanel show I've been to is very conceptual. Even down to the music and smells, the whole thing is connected.

A movie is really provocation. It's not a message, it's not a statement.

Cinema affects everything, from the way I get dressed to how I build my stages.

Once we decided to do a tower in New York, it had to say something about our group, reflecting the mix of modernity and creativity in our organization. It's a symbol.

The thing with sculpture is, 90% of the time, when I pass a piece of sculpture, it's in public or somewhere, and it's just, how inconvenient that that's there. It takes up so much room, and it's so oppressive.

I think that the cinema is a physical thing. What I'm looking for is creating a physical shock with the audience. I don't care of the meaning. I don't care of the idea. I don't want to say something. I want to make a 'shock physique.'

With 'Opening Credit,' we were trying to establish a certain tone and put people in a specific mood.

The effective in art is what rapes the emotions of your audience without nourishing its values.

In song the same rule applies as in dramatic verse: the meaning must yield itself, or yield itself sufficiently to arouse the attention and interest, in real time.

Real art is basic emotion. If a scene is handled with simplicity - and I don't mean simple - it'll be good, and the public will know it.

Art is power. Art influences the mind, the nerves, the feelings, the soul. It carries messages of hope, hostility, derision and moral rebuke. It can fight material and spiritual evils and can transmit the ideals of a community now living, long past or soon to be born.

When I worked on 2001 - which was my first feature film - I was deeply and permanently affected by the notion that a movie could be like a first-person experience.

One of the influences of Kafka over later writers is not so much in the content of his work as in its form.

I think it comes from really liking literary forms. Poetry is very beautiful, but the space on the page can be as affecting as where the text is. Like when Miles Davis doesn't play, it has a poignancy to it.

Design is a tool that allows us to reach out and inspire, to touch others and help make lives magic and wonderful

I have always been interested in having people fall into the image and be aware of their reaction first, and then think about the style.

I adore the challenge of creating truly modern clothes, where a woman's personality and sense of self are revealed. I want people to see the dress, but focus on the woman.

Taking architecture seriously therefore makes some singular and strenuous demands upon us...It means conceding that we are inconveniently vulnerable to the colour of our wallpaper and that our sense of purpose may be derailed by an unfortunate bedspread