Artists and scientists are the official noticers of society. They notice things that other people either have never learned to see or have learned to ignore, and communicate those noticings to others.

— Frank Oppenheimer

We are, each of us, a multitude. Within us is a little universe.

— Carl Sagan

The most radical thing is to make works, that are not recognizable as art.

— Gregor Schneider

The cinema is not a craft. It is an art. It does not mean team-work. One is always alone; on the set as before the blank page. And for Bergman, to be alone means to ask questions. And to make films means to answer them. Nothing could be more classically romantic.

— Jean-Luc Godard

Miles Davis | Live in Montreux | 1973

Touched by a masterpiece, a person begins to hear in himself that same call of truth which prompted the artist to his creative act. When a link is established between the work and its beholder, the latter experiences a sublime, purging trauma. Within that aura which unites masterpieces and audience, the best sides of our souls are made known, and we long for them to be freed. In those moments we recognize and discover ourselves, the unfathomable depths of our own potential, and the furthest reaches of our emotions.

— Andrei Tarkovsky

Sven Nykvist | Andrei Tarkovsky

You don't see them often. For wherever the crowd is, they are not. These odd ones, not many. But from them come the few good paintings, the few good symphonies, the few good books and other works. And from the best of the strange ones, perhaps nothing. They are their own paintings, their own books, their own music, their own work. Sometimes I think I see them. Say a certain old man sitting on a certain bench, in a certain way, or a quick face going the other way in a passing automobile, or there's the certain motion of the hands of a bag boy or a bag girl while packing supermarket groceries. Sometimes it is even somebody you've been living with for sometime. Sometimes it is even somebody you've been living with for sometime. You will notice a lightning quick glance never seen from them before. Sometimes you will only note their existence suddenly in vivid recall some months, some years after they are gone. [...]

— Charles Bukowski; The Strongest of the Strange

The Seventh Seal

Luis Ocaña; Tour de France, 04.07.1969

A Japanese legend says, that if you can't sleep at night, it's because you're awake in someone else's dream ...

Liv Ullmann | Ingmar Bergman

I have nothing to say about nothing. There's nothing to say. The less I say they better I feel.

— Charles Bukowski

There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the passion of life.

— Federico Fellini

No why. Just here.

— John Cage

Your fragility is also your strength.

— Pina Bausch

Robert Smithson; during the construction of Spiral Jetty, 1970

The cosmos is also within us, we're made of star stuff. We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.

— Carl Sagan

I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.

— Carl Sagan

‎[...] almost everything that we gave over to the light and the desert as an artistic challenge was transposed, became an expression of light, space and time. The most uplifting surprise for my eyes though was the realisation that space and light are more powerful than my artificial works, but that my relatively small constructions could reduce the endless spaces of the desert and articulate and intensify the all encompassing brightness of the light. Everything which I did in the desert did not damage her inviolacy but confirmed it [...]

— Heinz Mack

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Peter Zumthor | Therme Vals | 1996

The world is full of objects, more or less interesting; I do not wish to add any more.

— Douglas Huebler

Kitty Kraus | Untitled | 2006

To change art destroy ego.

— Ben Vautier