Aesthetics

“Every painting submitted by Kim Hong-do immediately satisfied King Jeongjo.”

“El arte tiene que perturbar, no tiene que divertir.”

“There are many ways to be a painter – art has many rooms.”

“The subjects are unimportant. The most important thing in art, I think, is to give a message to your senses, not your intellect.”

““The strengths of Western Arts are also where the shortcomings of Eastern Arts lie.””

“La poesía trabaja más con el objeto ausente que con la presencia.”

“I leave my brush at Azuma and go on the journey to the Holy West to view the famous scenery there.”

“I think a museum is a bad place to look at art.”

“La poesía es una sola, la buena.”

“苦铁画气不画形”

“What is cinema if not a form of printmaking?”

“我是金石第一，书法第二，花卉第三，山水外行。”

“At one hundred and ten, each dot, each line shall surely possess a life of its own!”

“Every book has its own form.”

“I like the notion of suffering and of guilt driving melancholy.”

“I was always disappointed that paintings didn’t have soundtracks.”

“I started making movies as an extension of painting.”

“الفن إضافة، مفيش حاجة اسمها قولة خَلْق، لكن هو إضافة.”

“The poet-monks’ poetry differs from literati poetry exactly for its breath of vegetables and bamboo shoots.”

“I don’t see music in a way that’s like, Oh, this is right, this is wrong, this is better, this is worse.”