Posts tagged film
All my life I’ve been harassed by questions: Why is something this way and not another? How do you account for that? This rage to understand, to fill in the blanks, only makes life more banal. If we could only find the courage to leave our destiny to chance, to accept the fundamental mystery of our lives, then we might be closer to the sort of happiness that comes with innocence.
Luis Buñuel
(via criterioncorner)
I’m going to be shot for saying this. But who said art has to cost money? And therefore, who says artists have to make money?
- Francis Ford Coppola on the99percent.com
I’m not one to advocate for artists living in poverty, but that’s not Coppola’s point. Has the financial success of a few artists in recent history created the cultural expectation that art is an industry, where the most useful work is validated by big profits?
