Art Quote by Maya Deren

The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted…

— Louise Brooks

No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight of the soul

— Ingmar Bergman

Cinema is still a very young art form with extraordinary techniques and very impressive special effects but sometimes it seems the soul has been…

— Catherine Deneuve

When we experience a film, we consciously prime ourselves for illusion. Putting aside will and intellect, we make way for it in our imagination.…

— Ingmar Bergman

Cinema and the arts invite viewers to focus on a story and, in doing so, peel away its layers and peer into the depths…

— Forest Whitaker

The art of movies is to allow the audience to suspend their disbelief. They need to use their imaginations.

— William Friedkin

A film is the reflection of the soul of its creator.

— Isabelle Huppert

The purpose of art: to make the unconscious conscious.

— Richard Wagner

How art works is really interesting. It comes from our unconscious, a lot of it. And were communicating in ways were not completely aware…

— Grayson Perry

Art is, for me, the process of trying to wake up the soul. Because we live in an industrialized, fast-paced world that prefers that…

— Bill Viola

MORE CONSISTENTLY THAN EVER I WAS TRYING TO MAKE PEOPLE BELIEVE THAT CINEMA AS AN INSTRUMENT OF ART HAS ITS OWN POSSIBILITIES WHICH ARE…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

The essence of cinema is editing. It's the combination of what can be extraordinary images of people during emotional moments, or images in a…

— Francis Ford Coppola