When you watch my movies, please don't speculate. Just trust your eyes and listen to your heart.

— Béla Tarr

That's why I'm talking to you. You are one of the rare people who can separate your observation from your preconception. You see what is, where most people see what they expect.

— John Steinbeck

Gregor Schneider | Black Dead End | 2006

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I am eternally, devastatingly romantic, and I thought people would see it because romantic doesn't mean sugary. It's dark and tormented — the furor of passion, the despair of an idealism that you can't attain.

— Catherine Breillat

This is how the world is, this is how humans are … Everything that exists must disappear. Now, our art is something that basically cannot be owned, cannot be purchased, cannot be kept. It is ephemeral, and therefore it is free — and it is beautiful.

— Christo

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I've always rejected being understood. To be understood is to prostitute oneself. I prefer to be taken seriously for what I'm not, remaining humanly unknown, with naturalness and all due respect.

— Fernando Pessoa

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The problem is no longer getting people to express themselves, but providing little gaps of solitude and silence in which they might eventually find something to say. Repressive forces don't stop people from expressing themselves, but rather, force them to express themselves. What a relief to have nothing to say, the right to say nothing, because only then is there a chance of framing the rare, or ever rarer, the thing that might be worth saying.

— Gilles Deleuze

I realize what they say about the nobility of misfortune is true, because misfortune teaches us the truth. […] You were a slave to your own life. Now you will become its master.

— Yūnosuke Itō as Novelist in Ikiru;
dir. by Akira Kurosawa, 1952

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International Kim Style

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We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment, because it does not fit them.

— Anaïs Nin

Man hat wenig von diesem Stück behalten, außer dass es etwas Essentielles ist, von dem man sprechen muss und das hier ausgesprochen wird, ein für alle Mal, besser als je zuvor, so hart und klar, dass man zittert und sprachlos ist, und mit einem Verband ums verwundete Herz aus dem Stück kommt. Tränengebadet.

— Hervé Guibert über "Café Müller"

Whoever gives nothing has nothing. The greatest misfortune is not to be unloved, but not to love.

— Albert Camus

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My point is, there are a lot of people in the world. No one ever sees everything the same way you do; it just doesn't happen. So when you find one person who gets a couple of things, especially if they're important ones […] you might as well hold on to them. You know?

— Sarah Dessen

Best education for kids ...

Kazimir Malevich | Black Square | 1915

Suprematism is a way of thinking about space, about four dimensions, not three, not two-dimensional art but four-dimensional as some kind of connection between time and space. That's why we are talking about theatre, because in modern theatre this is a very topical problem. Malevich was at the beginning of this process.

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Human beings are not interested in reality. They can't be; it's the human essence. They have wishes. These wishes are strictly opposed to any ugly form of reality. They prefer to lie than to become divorced from their wishes.

— Alexander Kluge

Gary Oldman

Léon, The Professional, dir. by Luc Besson in 1994

You're a Mozart fan. I love him too. I love Mozart! He was Austrian you know? But for this kind of work, he's a little bit light. So I tend to go for the heavier guys. Check out Brahms. He's good too.

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There is an invisible world out there, and we are living in it.

— Bill Viola

Black Pleat Military Coat by Burberry

Some people underestimate how erotic it is to be understood.

— Mary Rakow

Otto Piene | Zonen | 1957/1983/1987

Du sollst Achtung haben vor der Wildheit, dem Eigensinn, der Genauigkeit deiner Empfindungen.

— Alexander Kluge

SANAA | Zollverein School | 2006

Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa visit the construction site ...

To feel the soul without explaining it, without vocabulary, and to represent this sensation.

— Yves Klein

Yves Klein

Empty room reserved for the "sensibilité picturale immatérielle",
Haus Lange, during the "Monochrome und Feuer" exhibit, 1961

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Gordon Matta-Clark setzte sich Asbest, Säuren und Industrieabfällen aus. Er kämpfte sich ja mit Motorsägen durch Fassaden, Decken und Böden von Gebäuden aus den 20er- bis 50er-Jahren. Seine Witwe bestreitet allerdings, dass sein Tod 1978, mit 35 Jahren, etwas damit zu tun hat.

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Isabelle Adjani | Sam Neill

Possession; dir. by Andrzej Żuławski in 1981

To please the majority is the requirement of the Planet Cinema. As far as I'm concerned, I don't make a concession to viewers, these victims of life, who think that a film is made only for their enjoyment, and who know nothing about their own existence.

— Andrzej Żuławski