Ashmi Sheth > Ashmi's Quotes

“Producing an animation series merely to fill time slots in the broadcast schedule is like generating cultural pollution.”
― Hayao Miyazaki

“Don’t let the daily routine kill your creativity. Remember who you were before you got that job.”
― Morr Meroz, Making an Animated Short

“If we all reacted the same way, we'd be predictable, and there's always more than one way to view a situation...It's simple: overspecialize, and you breed in weakness. It's slow death.”
― Motoko Kusanagi ⎯ Ghost in the Shell (1995)

“The secret of all new and innovated animation is to think outside the box and explore new frontiers of idea and expression.”
― Tony White (2), Animation from Pencils to Pixels: Classical Techniques for the Digital Animator

“Forms acquire meaning for us only because we recognize in them the expression of a sentient (fühlend) soul. Spontaneously, we animate (beseelen) every object.”
― Heinrich Wölfflin

“As soon as we start putting our thoughts into words and sentences everything gets distorted, language is just no damn good—I use it because I have to, but I don’t put any trust in it. We never understand each other.”
― Marcel Duchamp

“The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act.”
― Marcel Duchamp

“Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

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― Marcel Duchamp

“I like living, breathing better than working...my art is that of living. Each second, each breath is a work which is inscribed nowhere, which is neither visual nor cerebral, it's a sort of constant euphoria.”
― Marcel Duchamp

“Destruction is also creation.”
― Marcel Duchamp

“What I have in mind is that art may be bad, good or indifferent, but, whatever adjective is used, we must call it art, and bad art is still art in the same way that a bad emotion is still an emotion.”
― Marcel Duchamp

“Art is not about itself but the attention we bring to it.”
― Marcel Duchamp

“Do unto others as they wish, but with imagination.”
― Marcel Duchamp

“The most interesting thing about artists is how they live”
― Marcel Duchamp, The Writings of Marcel Duchamp

“All in all, the creative act is not performed by the artist alone.. the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act.”
― Marcel Duchamp

“My idea was to chose an object that wouldn't attract me, either by its beauty or by its ugliness. To find a point of indifference in my looking at it, you see”
― Marcel Duchamp

“I realized very soon the danger of repeating indiscriminately (forms of) expression... for the spectator even more than for the artist, art is a habit forming drug and I wanted to protect my (art) against such contamination.”
― Marcel Duchamp

“Traditionally, artists suffered for their art, now it's the audience.”
― Marcel Duchamp

“I don't believe in art. I believe in the artist.”
― Marcel Duchamp