"I myself saw the great works of Western……" — Jonas Mekas
"I myself saw the great works of Western civilization for the first time in my high school in Lithuania in bad black-and-white reproductions on miserable paper. That was, for many years, what art was for me. But from those miserable black-and-white reproductions, I got something, something unmistakable."
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Jonas Mekas
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29 Quotes by Jonas Mekas
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In the very end, civilizations perish because they listen to their politicians and not to their poets.
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I make home movies-therefore I live. I live-therefore I make home movies
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Since 1950 I have been keeping a film diary. I have been walking around with my Bolex and reacting to…
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In Lithuania, I am known as a poet, and they don’t care about my cinema. In Europe they don’t know…
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For an artist, to be normal is a disaster
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Seek the insignificant small but essential qualities, essential to life
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My life is essentially not so unique. On some deeper levels we feel the same, we know the same things.…
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Yes, I got my first Bolex camera a few weeks after being dropped in New York by the United Nations…
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As a film-maker and a poet, I feel it's my duty to be an eye and an antenna to what's…
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I always work only with friends, but it must be about them and myself. Because I film only very personal…
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In a meadow full of flowers, you cannot walk through and breathe those smells and see all those colors and…
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We need less perfect but more free films.
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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
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