“My recollections of Armenia open new visions for me. My art is therefore a growth art where forms, pines, shapes, memories of Armenia germinate, breathe, expand and contract, multiply and thereby create new paths for exploration.” ArtFormGrowthMemoriesVisionPathShapesArt IsBreatheExplorationContractsRecollectionNew PathsNew VisionArmenia Author:Arshile Gorky
“Art is a kind of artificial memory and the pain which attends all serious art is a sense of that factitiousness.” KindArtPainMemoriesSeriousArt IsArtificial Book:The Black Prince Source: The Black Prince
“Art is the best possible introduction to the culture of the world. I love it for the buried hopes, the garnered memories, the tender feelings it can summon at a touch. It washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.” WorldArtSoulFeelingsCultureMemoriesArt IsEverydayDustBuriedEveryday LifeIntroductionCultures Of The WorldTender Feelings Author:Pablo Picasso
“That's grossing money for other people that has a multiplying factor, but the government doesn't see that. It doesn't see that making a film or culture or art is part of our economy. But the main reason is this, it's part of our identity. I think cinema is the memory and the imagination of the country. Take the memory and imagination out of an individual and he's stops being an individual.” PeopleThinkingArtCountryReasonGovernmentFilmCultureIndividualImaginationMemoriesEconomyIdentityArt IsFactorsCinemaMultiplying Author:Philippe Falardeau