9 Orson Welles Quotes on Art

Orson Welles quotes on art

2. In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed - they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo Da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love and five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!

4. A long-playing full shot is what always separates the men from the boys. Anybody can make movies with a pair of scissors and a two-inch lens.

8. It's about two percent movie-making and ninety-eight percent hustling. It's no way to spend a life.

13. The right reading for this is the one I'm giving.

20. I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

24. Tell Turner to keep his goddamned Crayolas away from my film!

30. Citizen Kane

31. The Magnificent Ambersons (film)

32. The Lady from Shanghai