Art Quotes by Guillermo del Toro

11 Art quotes by Guillermo del Toro

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Del Toro’s visual storytelling is legendary, and his reflections on Art carry that same cinematic flair. Eleven succinct quotes give you a quick look at how he perceives the magic of making and seeing.

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There is art and beauty and power in the primal images of fantasy.

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To me, art and storytelling serve primal, spiritual functions in my daily life. Whether I'm telling a bedtime story to my kids…

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If you're not operating on an instinctive level, you're not an artist… Reason over emotion is bullshit, absolute bullshit... We suffocate ourselves…

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You cannot convince a Buddhist to become a Protestant any more than you can convince a person who embraces realism as the…

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“Hidden in every limitation lies an opportunity. And for every obstacle you face, there is a simple and perfect solution, creatively. And…

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The only thing you can do as an artist is to come to the world, see what no one is doing, and…

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When you have the intuition that there is something which is there, but out of the reach of your physical world, art…

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I'm a book guy first, and my education came from two encyclopedias. One was an encyclopedia of health, so I became morbidly…

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In the medieval tradition, Beksinski seems to believe art to be a forewarning about the fragility of the flesh– whatever pleasures we…

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I have 7,000 DVDs and Blu-rays. I have thousands of books - thousands - and roughly 15,000 comic books or something like…

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“All art is portraiture and all art is political: those are the things that you cannot avoid. When someone sees you in…

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My favorite novel in the world is Frankenstein. I'm going to misquote it horribly, but the monster says, "I have such love in me,…

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I'm a lapsed altar boy.

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