Stanley Kubrick Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Art, Fun, Tests

• The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Art, Magic, Emotion

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

• In his essay on the uncanny, Das Unheimliche, Freud said that the uncanny is the only feeling which is more powerfully experienced in art than in life. If the horror genre required any justification, I should think this alone would serve as its credentials.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Art, Thinking, Horror Genre

• I don't think that writers or painters or filmmakers function because they have something they particularly want to say. They have something that they feel. And they like the art form; they like words, or the smell of paint, or celluloid and photographic images and working with actors. I don't think that any genuine artist has ever been oriented by some didactic point of view, even if he thought he was.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Art, Thinking, Views

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

• Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Art, Doe, Causes

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

• You know, I often thought that the gangster and the artist are the same in the eyes of the masses. They're admired and hero-worshipped but there is always present underlying desire to see them destroyed at the peak of their glory.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Art, Hero, Eye

• In any case, once you're dealing on a nonverbal level, ambiguity is unavoidable. But it's the ambiguity of all art, of a fine piece of music or a painting - you don't need written instructions by the composer or painter accompanying such works to 'explain' them. “Explaining” them contributes nothing but a superficial 'cultural' value which has no value except for critics and teachers who have to earn a living.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Teacher, Art, Needs

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