#method art

The Art of Skia I Fuchsspur

“(...) also, I think that every subject must be told in a different tone. Tone is extremely important in my opinion, in terms of the truth that inhabits a story. I always try to explain it like this: If I could paint, I'd perhaps paint in a similar style like Chagall. You see, when Chagall paints a couple of lovers flying over Paris or a goat sitting on a roof and playing a violin, then it is true because he is hitting a certain kind of tone in his pictures. It is the tone of fairy tales and legends and within this kind of tone, these stories are true - they are even more than true. (...) This is why it is very important yet also the most difficult challenge to me finding for every book the right tone in which the story has to be told.” - Michael Ende in an interview with Joachim Fuchsberger, 1990

“Pictures can be like windows which were pushed open for us, into a world that is transcendental and home to the pure power of imagination, as if we were weirdly smitten by some aliens; and at the same time, we realise these visions to be nothing strange but instead as something that belong to us - those, who were born hundreds of years later - in such a strong way as if it has been always there within us, sleeping.  A genius like Hercules Segers can lead us to pictures as if we were introduced to a brother who was always with us, not knowing that he even existed. Most of his engravings are not even real landscapes. His work can lit something within us, making it glow and we know instantly that it is not some truth based on facts, but an ecstatic truth before us. It's pretty safe to say that Segers himself never in his life saw a mountain or a formation of rocks.” - Werner Herzog on his favourite artist Hercules Segers and the power of ecstatic truth in his art, taken from “An den Grenzen, Kristina Jaspers/Rüdiger Zill”

- Ian Boyd Whyte and Werner Herzog, taken from “An den Grenzen, Kristina Jaspers/Rüdiger Zill”

Our sense for reality, as already said, is utterly challenged. I don't want to bother too much with it, though, since there has always been a question affecting me that lingers underneath it all, the question for truth. Facts, I'm not gonna ignore this, are sometimes so much outside our own expectations, they sometimes have such a weird, bizarre power that their approach to the truth, living inside them, seems to be unbelievable. But in the world of art, music, literature and cinema, a much deeper layer of truth can be possible, a poetic, ecstatic truth that is mysterious and only hard to comprehend, and which can be only reached through imagination, stylisation and fiction. - Werner Herzog on ecstatic truth, taken from “An den Grenzen, Kristina Jaspers/Rüdiger Zill”.

shit.