Federico Fellini Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• I don’t like the idea of “understanding” a film. I don’t believe that rational understanding is an essential element in the reception of any work of art. Either a film has something to say to you or it hasn’t. If you are moved by it, you don’t need it explained to you. If not, no explanation can make you moved by it.

  Federico Fellini

  Movie, Art, Believe

• The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.

  Federico Fellini

  Art, World, Fantasy

• I’m just a storyteller, and the cinema happens to be my medium. I like it because it recreates life in movement, enlarges it, enhances it, distills it. For me, it’s far closer to the miraculous creation of life than, say, a painting or music or even literature. It’s not just an art form; it’s actually a new form of life, with its own rhythms, cadences, perspectives and transparencies. It’s my way of telling a story.

  Federico Fellini

  Art, Perspective, Cinema

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

• We must get beyond passions, like a great work of art. In such miraculous harmony. We should learn to love each other so much to live outside of time... detached.

  Federico Fellini

  Life, Art, Passion

  "Fictional character: Steiner". "La Dolce Vita", 1960.

• I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and all the rest of it.

  Federico Fellini

  Art, Believe, Inspiration

  Federico Fellini, Damian Pettigrew (2003). “I'm a born liar: a Fellini lexicon”, Harry N Abrams Inc

• What's important is the way we say it. Art is all about craftsmanship. Others can interpret craftsmanship as style if they wish. Style is what unites memory or recollection, ideology, sentiment, nostalgia, presentiment, to the way we express all that. It's not what we say but how we say it that matters.

  Federico Fellini

  Art, Memories, Style

  Federico Fellini, Damian Pettigrew (2003). “I'm a born liar: a Fellini lexicon”, Harry N Abrams Inc

• All art is autobiographical.

  Federico Fellini

  Art, Artist, Art Is

  The Atlantic, December 1965.

• All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster's autobiography.

  Federico Fellini

  Art, Jewels, Oysters

  The Atlantic, December 1965.

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