Art Quote by John Grierson

We believe that the materials and the stories taken from the raw can be finer (more real in the philosophic sense) than the acted…

— John Grierson

Art is not a mirror but a hammer.

— John Grierson

Political conflicts distort and disturb a people's sense of distinction between matters of importance and matters of urgency. What is vital is disguised by…

— John Grierson

It is often more important to act than to understand... there are times... when two conflicting opinions, though one happens to be right, are…

— John Grierson

Beware the ends of the earth and the exotic: the drama is on your doorstep wherever the slums; are, wherever there is malnutrition, wherever…

— John Grierson

The very effect of the education they were given... was to make men think; and, thinking, they became less and less satisfied with the…

— John Grierson

Some of us learned in a school of philosophy which taught that all was for the common good and nothing for oneself and have…

— John Grierson

My personal view is that such total planning by the state is an absolute good and not simply a relative good... I do not…

— John Grierson

In fact, the individual outlook becomes less and less valuable and more and more harmful unless it is transmitted into the corporate outlook.

— John Grierson

For three hundred years we have had our focus on the individual. We have distinguished him from the objective world as the Middle Ages…

— John Grierson

The cultivation of sensibility on purely personal lines may, in fact, be the very worst training for a world where only the corporate and…

— John Grierson

I look on cinema as a pulpit, and use it as a propagandist.

— John Grierson