THE NORTH RIDING PROJECT

There is only one place left where you find artists: the circus.  There you can find the trapeze artists, the jugglers, even the hunger artist.  Film is not analysis, it is the agitation of the mind; cinema comes from the country fair and the circus, not from art and academicism.  I truly feel that in the world of the painter or novelist or film director there are no artists.  This is a concept that belongs to earlier centuries, where there was such a thing as virtue and pistol duels at dawn with men in love, and damsels fainting on couches.

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After Michelangelo had finished the Pieta in Rome, one of the Medici family forced him to build a snowman in the garden of the family villa.  He had no qualms about it; without a word he just went out and built the snowman.  I like this attitude and feel this is something of absolute defiance in it.

Cronin/Herzog