Stanley Kubrick:

I don't think that writers or painters or filmmakers function because they have something they particularly want to say. They have something that they feel. And they like the art form: they like words, or the smell of paint, or celluloid and photographic images and working with actors. I don't think that any genuine artist has ever been oriented by some didactic point of view, even if he thought he was.

— Stanley Kubrick Modern

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Interview, discussing the motivation of artists.

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https://www.visual-memory.co.uk/sk/notes.html

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