“To create art means
to be crazy alone
forever.”

“… art is made by the alone for the alone… The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication…”

“The idea is not to live forever, it is to create something that will.”

“A good film is one that requires the viewer to create, through an orchestration of impressions, the meaning of its events. It is, in the end, our ability to create meaning out of the raw experience of life that makes us human. It is the exercise of our faculty to discover meaning which is the purpose of art. The didactic imparting of moral or political messages is emphatically not the purpose of art -- that is what we call propaganda.”

“One cannot condemn tendencies in art; one can only condemn works of art. To be categorically against a current art tendency or style means, in effect, to pronounce on works of art not yet created and not yet seen. It means inquiring into the motives of artists instead of into results. Yet we all know — or are supposed to know — that results are all that count in art.”

“Only through apprehending, by means of present-day creations, how art is created, can the creations of other periods be genuinely appreciated.”

“Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.”

“A mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of Thought, alone.”

“But many of us seek community solely to escape the fear of being alone. Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.”

“Just because something’s crazy, doesn’t mean it’s wrong.”