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an Artist never works under ideal conditions

Andrew Rosinski — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 04:01:37 +0000

… an artist never works under ideal conditions. If they existed, his work wouldn’t exist, for the artist doesn’t live in a vacuum.

Some sort of pressure must exist: the artist exists because the world is not perfect. Art would be useless if the world were perfect, as man wouldn’t look for harmony, but would simply live in it.

Art is born out of an ill-designed world.

— Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky

like pleasant dreams

Andrew Rosinski — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 03:55:55 +0000

A film for me begins with something very vague — a chance remark or a bit of conversation, a hazy but agreeable event unrelated to any particular situation. It can be a few bars of music, a shaft of light across the street. Sometimes in my work at the theater I have envisioned actors made up for yet unplayed roles.

These are split-second impressions that disappear as quickly as they come, yet leave behind a mood – like pleasant dreams. It is a mental state, not an actual story, but one abounding in fertile associations and images. Most of all, it is a brightly colored thread sticking out of the dark sack of the unconscious. If I begin to wind up this thread, and do it carefully, a complete film will emerge.

— Ingmar Bergman, 1960

Truth; a Chimera; Dreams; Perennia

Andrew Rosinski — Thu, 06 May 2010 18:43:08 +0000

“Give me two hours a day of activity, and I’ll take the other twenty-two in dreams.”

“I am not preoccupied by my obsessions. Why does grass grow in the garden? Because it is fertilized to do so.”

“Dreams are uncontrollable. Their secret has not yet been discovered. I wish I could direct my dreams according to my desires. Then … I would never wake up.”

“I am against pornography because I believe in love. One of André Breton’s poems calls love a secret ceremony that should be celebrated in darkness at the bottom of a cave. For me, that is gospel. ”

DINCA » filmmaker quotes

an Artist never works under ideal conditions

… an artist never works under ideal conditions. If they existed, his work wouldn’t exist, for the artist doesn’t live in a vacuum.

Some sort of pressure must exist: the artist exists because the world is not perfect. Art would be useless if the world were perfect, as man wouldn’t look for harmony, but would simply live in it.

Art is born out of an ill-designed world.

— Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky

like pleasant dreams

Truth; a Chimera; Dreams; Perennia

“Give me two hours a day of activity, and I’ll take the other twenty-two in dreams.”

“I am not preoccupied by my obsessions. Why does grass grow in the garden? Because it is fertilized to do so.”

“Dreams are uncontrollable. Their secret has not yet been discovered. I wish I could direct my dreams according to my desires. Then … I would never wake up.”

“I am against pornography because I believe in love. One of André Breton’s poems calls love a secret ceremony that should be celebrated in darkness at the bottom of a cave. For me, that is gospel. ”

“Reality without imagination is only half of reality. ”

— LUIS BUÑUEL