Artist Quotes

I knew exactly how I wanted it to play, but you are never sure until you watch the projected images reflect off the screen. That's when you know it worked.

I hope I'm still shooting when I'm 80.

I don't think of myself as a director or writer. I think of myself as a filmmaker.

I can still recall the thrill of shooting my first film.

Every once in a while, when the audience is expecting to see one thing, you have to show them something else.

Every cinematographer I worked with had his own way of solving problems.

But you know you haven't done it all because you know everything keeps evolving and changing; and you know you can evolve with it if you grow and develop as a human being.

But at heart, I am more than a cinematographer.

Billions of people have seen and been influenced by movies in the short history of this industry.

Photography is a very important part of my life.

Contrast is what makes photography interesting.

I realize that every picture isn't a work of art.

Cinematography is infinite in its possibilities... much more so than music or language.

There is a kind of beauty in imperfection.

You are always a student, never a master. You have to keep moving forward.

Dad, wherever you are, you are gone but you will never be forgotten.

The computer is very good for me; I can magnify my work very easily.

The comics were not only stories to enjoy; for me they were drawings that possessed me.

I started in 1957 when I sold my first story to a magazine.

A legend - now I am like a unicorn.

You know, it was just another presentation of my work, and a funny one, because the cards are quite different from the normal Tarot deck, no?

You know, I said I have this problem that I need to more carefully read Akron's text because it's too much, too much fantasy, and so I am busy with other stuff - it's funny, it's nice to hear that someone is studying that carefully and now I know a little bit more about that.

You know I was curious - I was interested in all kinds of mystery or deeper meanings in the paintings because I myself have not analyzed why they have turned out like this or like that.

There is hope and a kind of beauty in there somewhere, if you look for it.

Some people would say my paintings show a future world and maybe they do, but I paint from reality. I put several things and ideas together, and perhaps, when I have finished, it could show the future.

No, I didn't work it out upside down, I never turned it around.

I don't know, if somebody doesn't tell me how would I know?

Some people say my work is often depressing and pessimistic, with the emphasis on death, blood, overcrowding, strange beings and so on, but I don't really think it is.

With the brush we merely tint, while the imagination alone produces colour.

Is it not dangerous to have students study together for years, copying the same models and approximately the same path?