Guillermo del Toro Art Quotations

If you don't take it personally, the partnership between producers and directors is very intimate.

The only thing you can do as an artist is to come to the world, see what no one is doing, and leave behind one or two things that wouldn't have happened without you.

Your heart is uncomplicated. It knows what it knows and acts accordingly. Greater wisdom is hard to find.

When you have the intuition that there is something which is there, but out of the reach of your physical world, art and religion are the only means to get to it.

When you work with a great director, you can have a great partnership.

If you're not operating on an instinctive level, you're not an artist.... Reason over emotion is bullshit, absolute bullshit... We suffocate ourselves in rules. I find fantasy liberating.

In the medieval tradition, Beksinski seems to believe art to be a forewarning about the fragility of the flesh– whatever pleasures we know are doomed to perish– thus, his paintings manage to evoke at once the process of decay and the ongoing struggle for life. They hold within them a secret poetry, stained with blood and rust.