"both high and low culture have produced masterpieces and works of mediocrity. it is our task to find beauty in unexpected places."
— jahsonic (june, 2006),
art & popular culture wiki
"a still is not a film. it lacks the dimensions of time and movement — indispensable components of film art — and represents only a small fraction of a single second of a given motion picture."
— amos vogel, film as a subversive art (1974)
59 notes "it is obvious that art cannot teach anyone anything, since in four thousand years humanity has learnt nothing at all. we should long ago have become angels had we been capable of paying attention to the experience of art, and allowing ourselves to be changed in accordance with the ideals it expresses. art only has the capacity, through shock and catharsis, to make the human soul receptive to good. it’s ridiculous to imagine that people can be taught to be good… art can only give food – a jolt – the occasion – for psychical experience."
— andrei tarkovsky, sculpting in time: reflections on the cinema, pp. 50 [1]