Audiovisual Art Quotes

I love the conversation between film and music.

I have this desire in the back of my mind now of making music and film at the same time - putting the two together.

Television and film are our libraries now. Our history books.

The videos are definitely as important as the music.

Whether one likes it or not, the screen is a profoundly important source of imagery and storytelling for this generation. For me, books remain a stunning place to tell stories, but the screen has a place.

Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.

I think a movie is a media that is evoking feelings.

Visuals are as artistic as sounds, so being serious about both isn't a contradiction to me.

I think music videos in particular and film in general - it's really good at communicating tone and feeling.

I love the idea of using film language similarly to how musicians use music - combining images and sounds in a way that they create an emotional effect.

Films and things like that are really my first love and, so when we get to make videos it's just as important as the song. To me it's not a commercial, for me it's a whole work of art on it's own so, we plan on working on a movie and things like that in the future so.

With the violin, for example, one understands culturally that the sound comes from the instrument that can be seen. With electronic music, it is not the same at all. That's why it seemed so important to me, from the beginning of my career, to invent a grammar, a visual vocabulary adapted to electronic music.

Cinema is, of course, the great storytelling medium of modernity.

I love TV, and I love movies, and I pull so much content from the drama in all of those mediums and put them into songs.

There is no art form that has so much in common with film as music. Both affect our emotions directly, not via the intellect.