Top 2 Quotes & Sayings by Len Lye

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a New Zealander artist Len Lye.
Last updated on November 24, 2024.
Len Lye

Leonard Charles Huia Lye was a New Zealand artist known primarily for his experimental films and kinetic sculpture. His films are held in archives including the New Zealand Film Archive, British Film Institute, Museum of Modern Art in New York City, and the Pacific Film Archive at University of California, Berkeley. Lye's sculptures are found in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery and the Berkeley Art Museum. Although he became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1950, much of his work went to New Zealand after his death, where it is housed at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery in New Plymouth.

There has never been a great film unless it was created in the spirit of the experimental filmmaker. — © Len Lye
There has never been a great film unless it was created in the spirit of the experimental filmmaker.
All of a sudden it hit me - if there was such a thing as composing music, there could be such a thing as composing motion. After all, there are melodic figures, why can't there be figures of motion?
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