"The thing about art for me is that you can go on theorising your work forever, because it's open to interpretation."

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Source : "Takeshi Kitano: one original gangster". Interview with Steve Rose, www.theguardian.com. March 15, 2010.

Takeshi Kitano

#Art Quotes #Forever Quotes #Goes On Quotes

“Don't change your mind just because people are offended; change your mind if you're wrong.”
“The whole idea of play is in finding, acknowledging, and then working with the natural constraints and limitations that you find in the world.”

Source : Source: app.longform.org
“You can only exclude it on philosophical grounds. In my view there is absolutely nothing wrong in that. What I want to bring into the open is the fact that we are using philosophical criteria in choosing our models. A lot of cosmology tries to hide that.”
“... protection of life is NOT a legitimate use for a firearm in this country sir! Not! That is expressly ruled out!”
“Officials believe that one of the terrorists was a woman. And there are female suicide bombers. It's just that their reward in paradise is a little different. Instead of getting 72 virgins, they get 72 guys who just listen.”
“Get really rich and then help the people who didn't have the opportunity you did.”
“I'm not freakishly short. I had, on my show, used shortness as a joke subject; it didn't really bother me.”
“The avocation of assessing the failures of better men can be turned into a comfortable livelihood, providing you back it up with a Ph.D.”

Source : "Nelson Algren, The Art of Fiction No. 11". Interview with Alston Anderson, Terry Southern, www.theparisreview.org. 1955.

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