black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.

Orson Welles

Create your own visual style. Let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
ORSON WELLES

Creation Identity Style Unique Visual Yourself
See, I believe that it is not true that different races and nations are alike. I’m profoundly convinced that that’s a total lie. I think people are different. Sardinians, for example, have stubby little fingers. Bosnians have short necks.
ORSON WELLES

Appearance Believe Different Lie Myself Nation People Race Thinking True
Race hate isn’t human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
ORSON WELLES

Abandonment Deep Hate Human Nature Race Wisdom
I love informality. I hate dressing up. I hate to be conventional – and I hate every kind of snob.
ORSON WELLES

Appearance Fashion Hate Kind Love Myself Relationship
Paris is the playwright’s delight. New York is the home of directors. London, however, is the actor’s city, the only one in the world. In London, actors are given their head.
ORSON WELLES

Actor Director Home Movie Play Respect World Worth
Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.
ORSON WELLES

Artist Himself Magic True
An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.
ORSON WELLES

Artist Himself Time
I’m one of those fellows so frightened of driving that I go 80 miles an hour – and the more frightened I get, the faster I go.
ORSON WELLES

Drive Fast Myself Scare
I don’t say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.
ORSON WELLES

Appearance Attitude Audacity Behavior
Ignorance sheer ignorance. There is no confidence to equal it. It’s only when you know something about a profession that you are timid or careful.
ORSON WELLES

Care Confidence Equality Ignorance Professional Yourself
Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.
ORSON WELLES

Easy Job Police
I can think of nothing that an audience won’t understand. The only problem is to interest them; once they are interested, they understand anything in the world.
ORSON WELLES

Audience Myself Thinking Understand World
Criticism is the essence of creation.
ORSON WELLES

Creation Criticism One Liner
I’m never certain of a performance – my own or the other actors’ – or the script or anything. But to me it seems there’s only one place in the world the camera can be, and the decision usually comes immediately.
ORSON WELLES

Actor Camera Decision Myself Performance Place Script World
There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.
ORSON WELLES

Boredom Emotion Terrorism
In my opinion, there are two things that can absolutely not be carried to the screen: the realistic presentation of the sexual act and praying to God.
ORSON WELLES

Act Carry God Opinion Pray Sex

A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Orson Welles Quotes