A Quote by Werner Herzog

Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates. — © Werner Herzog
Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates.

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You should look straight at a film; that's the only way to see one. Film is not the art of scholars but of illiterates.
Film should be looked at straight on; it is not the art of scholars but of illiterates.
Insights into erotic life belong to art, not education. But sometimes these have to be spelled out for the illiterates. And it ismainly a matter of convincing the illiterates, for they are the ones who write the penal code.
There are successful scholars, public-spirited scholars, upright scholars, cautious scholars, and those who are merely petty men.
Education must be taken out of the hands of rich illiterates, third rate politicians, and put where it belongs: in the care of scholars. At present the whole University system is rotten to the core, and an appalling waste of time, energy and money.
It's a very good thing for students also to be exposed to people who aren't film students or film scholars but who work in the world of film.
When the medium of the film is English, even the illiterates also should speak in proper English.
By and large, the making of serious, thoughtful and occasionally valuable art has become a lonely persuasion, while the marketing of art has become a boutique operation, manipulated by fashion, self-serving art scholars and the vagaries of the auction block.
Time in China has no immediacy as in America. Here I find the swift passage of our few earthly years accepted as naturally as the fall of flower and leaf. ... I hear and speak a language in which grammar has no tense. Both scholars and illiterates, in ordinary daily speech, tell an event of centuries ago as casually as an incident of the hour. Only as my knowledge has accumulated have I been able to know whether something related happened just then or in some past dynasty.
People talk about making art films - experimental films. I can make an art film every day of the week. Nothing to it. What's difficult is to combine a commercial film with art.
Once a sage asked why scholars always flock to the doors of the rich, whilst the rich are not inclined to call at the doors of scholars. ‘The scholars‘ he answered , ‘are well aware of the use of money, but the rich are ignorant of the nobility of science.’
The word “art” is something the West has never understood. Art is supposed to be a part of a community. Like, scholars are supposed to be a part of a community... Art is to decorate people’s houses, their skin, their clothes, to make them expand their minds, and it’s supposed to be right in the community, where they can have it when they want it... It’s supposed to be as essential as a grocery store... that’s the only way art can function naturally.
In any art movement, the art has to move into a new phase - a filmmaker has a desire to make a film that is not like a previous film.
Art is always at peril in universities, where there are so many people, young and old, who love art less than argument, and dote upon a text that provides the nutritious pemmican on which scholars love to chew.
Past scholars studied to improve themselves; Today's scholars study to impress others.
Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars
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