Nicolas Provost quotes

“Well, as a visual artist working with the phenomenon of cinema, the grammar of cinema, [making a feature] was bound to happen. Everything I do is like sculpting with image and sound.”
-- Nicolas Provost

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“[My work] looks very cinematic because it's not abstract video art. It's sometimes very narrative and since I play with film grammar in my video work, making a feature film was almost the same challenge.”
-- Nicolas Provost

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“Well, for me as a heterosexual man, the woman is still the mystery of life.”
-- Nicolas Provost

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“Musicians must make music, artists must paint, poets must write if they are to be ultimately at peace with themselves. What human beings can be, they must be. They must be true to their own nature. This need we may call self-actualization.”

“I would just encourage any artist to stay focused, of course keep God first, and just keep working hard. Try to outwork those who you idolize.”

Source : Source: www.independentphilly.com

“Painting cannot be the only activity of a mature artist.”

“Someone who seeks to travel the path of Allah should begin with a sound repentance from all his sins.”

“I was left with an urge to make the guitar sound like things it shouldn't be able to sound like.”

“I knew that as a DJ from 1970 on up that I would eventually come with this sound. I brought out all these other break beats that you hear so much on a lot of these records.”

“the tea-hour is the hour of peace ... strife is lost in the hissing of the kettle - a tranquilizing sound, second only to the purring of a cat.”

“Cinema seats make people lazy. They expect to be given all the information. But for me, question marks are the punctuation of life.”

Source : "Cannes 2012: Abbas Kiarostami: 'The world is my workshop'". Interview with Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. May 28, 2012.

“The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.”

“Don't make your living with cinema because Hollywood will take you, will eat you, will destroy you. This is the reality. You have a good picture, have success, you take the person and they destroy you.”