The picture is in your head, in your imagination, everything.
Interpretation
Our imagination shapes our perceptions and creations.
Federico Fellini highlights the importance of imagination in the creative process, suggesting that our thoughts and visions are fundamental to how we perceive and create art. This quote emphasizes that the essence of any artistic expression starts from within, and that what we visualize in our minds is the foundation for all tangible creations.
In practice
In a motivational speech about creativity, one could quote Fellini to inspire artists to embrace their inner visions.
I’m just a storyteller, and the cinema happens to be my medium. I like it because it recreates life in movement, enlarges it, enhances it, distills it. For me, it’s far closer to the miraculous creation of life than, say, a painting or music or even literature. It’s not just an art form; it’s actually a new form of life, with its own rhythms, cadences, perspectives and transparencies. It’s my way of telling a story.
Talking about dreams is like talking about movies, since the cinema uses the language of dreams; years can pass in a second, and you can hop from one place to another. It's a language made of image. And in the real cinema, every object and every light means something, as in a dream.
No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite.
A created thing is never invented and it is never true: it is always and ever itself.
What's important is the way we say it. Art is all about craftsmanship. Others can interpret craftsmanship as style if they wish. Style is what unites memory or recollection, ideology, sentiment, nostalgia, presentiment, to the way we express all that. It's not what we say but how we say it that matters.
We can all pretend to be cynical and scheming, but when we’re faced with purity and innocence, the cynical mask drops off.
A poem is a private story, after all, no matter how apparently public. The reader is always overhearing a confession.
Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.
I hope you will understand that architecture has nothing to do with the inventions of forms. It is not a playground for children, young or old. Architecture is the real battleground of the spirit.
What critics call dirty in our pictures, they call lusty in foreign films.
It is an ancient need to be told stories. But the story needs a great storyteller. Thanks for all of it, Jo.
Beauty is a form of Genius--is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation. It is one of the great facts of the world, like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in the dark waters of that silver shell we call the moon. It cannot be questioned. It has divine right of sovereignty. It makes princes of those who have it.
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