As an artist, you're always going to be yearning and wanting and never satisfied. I never feel like I've really achieved something.
One may ask the question as to the extent to which the quest for beauty is an aim in the pursuit of science. . . . It is, indeed, an incredible fact that what the human mind, at its deepest and most profound, perceives as beautiful finds its realization in external nature. What is intelligible is also beautiful.
Art is not difficult because it wishes to be difficult, rather because it wishes to be art. However much the writer might long to be straightforward, these virtues are no longer available to him. He discovers that in being simple, honest, straightforward, nothing much happens.
I've spent my life pursing excellence as an artist, which is what I always wanted to do anyhow.
My goal as a creative person is to express truth and beauty in whatever I do
Certain dressmakers desire to pass for an artist. I have one ambition: that is to have good taste.
The motive of art comes to us not from what exists, but from the notion that there is something higher, something nobler, something richer, and that what exists corresponds only partially to all of this.
You can't make something beautiful by trying to make something beautiful. Something becomes beautiful in the process of trying to be something else.
All fashions are charming, or rather relatively charming, each one being a new striving, more or less well conceived, after beauty, an approximate statement of an ideal, the desire for which constantly teases the unsatisfied human mind.
Perhaps art is a quest for the perfect, or even the imperfect. Reality always falls short on both sides.
As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.
For me, acting is all about the aesthetic. I just want to keep honing my craft. Not that I'm taking myself too seriously, but every artist should consider himself Picasso. Otherwise, you're doing yourself an injustice.
I have only one simple ambition when I make a film. That it should be the best I have made so far. With 'Kadal' it was no different.
Many of our greatest musicians abandoned all of their aesthetic objectives to try to become pertinent. And, at the end of the day, they never became pop stars. I counter stated that very strongly, and I continue to do that.
For I must tell you that we artists cannot tread the path of Beauty without Eros keeping company with us and appointing himself as our guide.
There are directors who desire to be artistic. It is pathetic to compare the seriousness of their aim with the absurdity of their attainment.
Filmmaking for me is always aiming for the imaginary movie and never achieving it.
The body expresses our very being. The striving for beauty is inborn among the Aryan.
So to the wretched writer I should like to say that there’s one body only whose request for your caresses is not vulgar, is not unchaste, untoward, or impolite: the body of your work itself; for you must remember that your attentions will not merely celebrate a beauty but create one; that yours is love that brings it own birth with it, just as Plato has declared, and that you should therefore give up the blue things of this world in favor of the words which say them
After the feet of beauty fly my own.
Art is born and takes hold wherever there is a timeless and insatiable longing for the spiritual...
Out of sheer perversity, I followed beauty where it lead, into the silence.
Art has no end but its own perfection.
There are lives lived for love, and lives lived for art. We, happy band, have chosen the later persuasion.
Even in reaching for the beautiful there is beauty, and also in suffering whatever it is that one suffers en route.
