Aesthetics

“Night does not show things, it suggests them.”

“إذا الشعرُ لم يهززك عند سماعهِ فليس خليقًا أن يُقالَ له شعرُ”

“We believe that art is life and conversely, life is art.”

“The Kelly paintings, really, are as abstract as they are anecdotal.”

“We must show Thai traditional style to the world.”

“Art had changed rhythm.”

“I know that my paintings declare absolutely everything. Nothing is hidden whatsoever.”

“I never put anything into a picture that I don’t actually see when I’m painting a subject.”

““I hate a no-hope, no-answer sort of play.””

“I just felt that cinema should have a form of its own.”

“being sensible of the necessity of attending to nature as the fountainhead of all perfection”

“I have always wanted to paint it [Hampstead Heath] since & you ladies in black and white dresses among the bushes…”

“Nor rough, nor barren, are the winding ways Of hoar antiquity, but strown with flowers.”

“So, montage is conflict.”

“إن في هذه التربة دفئاً خاصاً، وفيها حرارة ضوء تعطيها إشعاعاً وسحنة سمراء محروقة، من خلالها يمكن أن تبصر بعض سمات حضارتنا القديمة، وبالأخص الحضارة السومرية فهي الأقرب إلى طبيعة تكوين هذه التربة.”

“ولدت تأثيريًا ولكن تأثيريًا مصريًا تحس بشمس الوادي في رسومي.”

“Cinematography is a visual language, and it’s very global.”

“The important thing in assessing the merit of a poem is time.”