The eyes of Akira Kurosawa

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Random quote of the day:

 

“There are people who criticize my work…and say it is not realistic.  But I feel that merely copying the outward appearance of the world would not result in anything real—that is only copying.  I think that to find what is real one must look very closely at one’s world, to search for those things that contribute to this reality which one feels under the surface.  These are few and one uses them to create.  These are the core around which the world moves, the axis on which it turns….To be an artist means to search for, find, and look at these things; to be an artist means never to avert one’s eyes.”

—Akira Kurosawa, quoted in The Films of Akira Kurosawa by Donald Richie

 

 

Disclaimer:  The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

Mirrored from Better Than Dead.