Photographers [Oo] I don’t trust those who need to understand things | Stanley Kubrick, 1998
Kubrick self-portrait, 1949
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“There is far too much focus on understanding–on being understood. The defining characteristics
of those things–books, films, paintings, pieces of music–that I consider to be art were not things
I understood, but things I felt, and felt very deeply. I was left–happily, I might add–altered and
confused and amazed. I felt enthusiastic about what I had seen and what I now faced. I don’t trust
those who need to understand things. There is artistry and joy in not knowing.
of those things–books, films, paintings, pieces of music–that I consider to be art were not things
I understood, but things I felt, and felt very deeply. I was left–happily, I might add–altered and
confused and amazed. I felt enthusiastic about what I had seen and what I now faced. I don’t trust
those who need to understand things. There is artistry and joy in not knowing.
Feel more. That was what I meant to say.”
Interview with Stanley Kubrick
Conducted by James Grissom, 1998
Stanley Kubrick on drums with the “George Lewis Ragtime Jazz Band of New Orleans” in George
Lewis’ garden in New Orleans in 1950
Lewis’ garden in New Orleans in 1950
Also:
Life and Love on the New York City Subway | Photos by Stanley Kubrick (1946)
Chess | Stanley Kubrick
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaXAPj1CDh8
Phil Spector / I Can Hear Music / c 1966 / demo
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