"I'm not an abstract artist; I leave that……" — Jonas Mekas
"I'm not an abstract artist; I leave that to others. To me, abstract art ended with Kazimir Malevich's 'Black Square.' To continue it is senseless."
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29 Quotes by Jonas Mekas
Jonas Mekas has 29 quotes on this site.
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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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More Abstract Quotes
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one of 741 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.
— Honore de Balzac
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I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist; or I'd draw a big ram's head, really…
— Jean-Michel Basquiat
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In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.
— Theodor Adorno
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None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.
— Theodor Adorno
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Good science fiction is intelligent. It asks big questions that are on people's minds. It's not impossible. It has some…
— Nicolas Cage
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Science fiction is a way that I can go into the abstract, go into the imagination, and audiences are still…
— Nicolas Cage
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I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery.
— Eric Cantona
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Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
— Al Capp
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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change…
— Saul Alinsky
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'Woman on the Plaza,' with its distinct horizon, snow-like surfaces, wintry wall, stunning sunlight, sharp shadows, and hurrying figure, would…
— Sam Abell
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Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories. They are habits, predispositions, deeply…
— John Dewey
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It is difficult to talk about fashion in the abstract, without a human body before my eyes, without drawings, without…
— Giorgio Armani
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