Maya Deren Inspirational Quotes (7)

It is not morbidity which draws crowds to scenes of disaster or unusual joy. It is the desire to participate in a moment when life breaks through to some higher level of intensity so that one's own life might take fire from that sudden spurted flame.

The way back is always shorter.

I make my pictures for what Hollywood spends on lipstick.

Myth is the facts of the mind made manifest in a fiction of matter.

Use your freedom to experiment with visual ideas.

I am not greedy. I do not seek to possess the major portion of your days. I am content if, on those rare occasions whose truth can be stated only by poetry, you will, perhaps, recall an image, even only the aura of my films.

And what more could I possibly ask as an artist than that your most precious visions, however rare, assume sometimes the forms of my images.