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My art will reflect not necessarily conscious politics but the unanalysed politics of my life.

Today's cinema is a global art form, it is impossible to make movies for a market the size of France, representing no more than 4% of the world's total.

The art of motion pictures is pictorial and language comes a distant second.

People who think about art as an investment are pathetic.

Life is very nice, but it lacks form. It's the aim of art to give it some.

Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony.

Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.

I hate artists who are not of their time.

He wasn't, but producers are by definition annoying because they have a different agenda from you. They're trying to stop you spending money and you're trying to not spend money, but at the same time we're great artists.

The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces.

The knowledge of God is the cause of things. For the knowledge of God is to all creatures what the knowledge of the artificer is to things made by his art.

I do greatly admire Australian artists.

I've loved art for more than 30 years.

Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.