Maya Deren famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

And what more could I possibly ask as an artist than that your most precious visions, however rare, assume sometimes the forms of my images.
-- Maya Deren

#Artist #Vision #Assuming
Art is actually based on the notion that if you would really celebrate an idea or a principle, you must think, you must plan, you must put yourself completely in the state of devotion, and not simply give the first thing that comes to your head
-- Maya Deren

#Art #Thinking #Ideas
Myth is the facts of the mind made manifest in a fiction of matter.
-- Maya Deren

#Mind #Matter #Facts
The way back is always shorter.
-- Maya Deren

#Home #Way
It is not morbidity which draws crowds to scenes of disaster or unusual joy. It is the desire to participate in a moment when life breaks through to some higher level of intensity so that one's own life might take fire from that sudden spurted flame.
-- Maya Deren

#Flames #Fire #Joy
I make my pictures for what Hollywood spends on lipstick,
-- Maya Deren

#Hollywood #Lipstick
The task of cinema or any other art form is not to translate hidden messages of the unconscious soul into art but to experiment with the effects contemporary technical devices have on nerves, minds, or souls.
-- Maya Deren

#Art #Soul #Mind
I am not greedy. I do not seek to possess the major portion of your days. I am content if, on those rare occasions whose truth can be stated only by poetry, you will, perhaps, recall an image, even only the aura of my films.
-- Maya Deren

#Auras #Film #Greedy
Use your freedom to experiment with visual ideas.
-- Maya Deren

#Inspirational #Motivational #Ideas

An artist's job is simply to take the mirror in front of your face and hold it there. It's not to give you any answers. It is simply to take that mirror and point it at you.
The artist never really has any control over the impact of his work. If he starts thinking about the impact of his work, then he becomes a lesser artist.
You don't need vision to be a visionary.
Of what use is a dream if not a blueprint for courageous action.
We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.
... The meeting is called by the U.S. to give their vision of the interim Iraqi authority. It will be a one-day meeting. And the U.S. will present its vision, and there will be a statement after the meeting.
Movements of people create change - not just any one person or organization, but when lots of people are in motion around a shared vision.
Don't assume your child is weak. If you, the parent, assume that they can't take anymore, what kind of signal are you sending them?
When a plan or strategy fails, people are tempted to assume it was the wrong vision. Plans and strategies can always be changed and improved. But vision doesn't change. Visions are simply refined with time.
I find it hard to meet the right woman as people assume I'm a certain type of person - which I'm not.

Maya Deren famous quotes

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