“It's the honest point of view of an artist: You have to please.I'd like viewers to come away from my films unsure whether they've understood them. I want to leave them wondering.” WantFilmArtistViewsWonderHonestPleaseUnderstoodPoint Of ViewViewersUnsure Author:Jean-Pierre Melville
“It's up to the artist to use language that can be understood, not hide it in some private code... obscurity is usually the refuge of incompetence.” UseArtistLanguageUnderstoodCodeRefugeObscurityIncompetence Author:Robert A. Heinlein
“Can that which has cost the artist days, weeks, months and even years of reflection be understood in a flash by a dilettante?” YearsArtistUnderstandingWeekMonthsCostReflectionUnderstoodFlashDilettantes Book:On Music and Musicians Source: On Music and Musicians
“The motif must always be set down in a simple way, easily grasped and understood by the beholder. By the elimination of superfluous detail, the spectator should be led along the road that the artist indicates to him, and from the first be made to notice what the artist has felt.” WayShouldFirstsMadeArtistFeltSimpleUnderstoodSimplicityDetailsSpectatorsSuperfluousEliminationBeholderMotifsSimple Ways Author:Alfred Sisley
“Perhaps the artist who seeks dignity above all in his 'historia', ought to represent very few figures; for as paucity of words imparts majesty to a prince, provided histhoughts and orders are understood, so the presence of only the strictly necessary numbers of bodies confers dignity on a picture.” BodyArtistOrderNumbersFiguresOughtUnderstoodDignityMajestyImpart Author:Leon Battista Alberti
“Walt understood all of those things, and even common things about people. For instance: Usually you get your idea of what kind of day it is by looking at the horizon, because the horizon is your eye level. So what Walt did is to eliminate the horizon.” PeopleKindIdeasEyeArtistLevelsCommonUnderstoodInstanceHorizonWaltCommon Things Author:John Hench