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I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.

In art the best is good enough.

Really I don’t like human nature unless all candied over with art.

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

Some photographers take reality… , impose the domination of their own thought , spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly , a photograph to them is an instrument of love , revelation.

The United States and Turkey are the only two countries that don’t have some kind of subsidy for the Arts. The whole culture in society has made certain films more acceptable. I turned down so many films in the ’60s and ’70s.

I don’t know to what extent someone can BECOME an artist – you either are or you aren’t – and if you are you’ll HAVE to make your way to some kind of sickly light, no matter how terrible the soil you were seeded in your nature will out somehow.

It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.

Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.

Beauty without expression is boring.