Art

The best portraits happen when you strip away all the pretense, all the masks people wear, and you find that raw, honest moment. That's when magic happens.

Scottish photographer and filmmaker known for provocative social documentary work

Photography has become the universal language. It doesn't matter what country you're from, what language you speak, we all understand images. That's what makes it so powerful and so dangerous.

Scottish photographer and filmmaker known for provocative social documentary work

I've always believed that everyone can look like a magazine cover star. It's not about being born beautiful, it's about finding that moment, that light, that expression that makes you shine.

Scottish photographer and filmmaker known for provocative social documentary work

The camera doesn't lie, but the photographer does. And that's the beauty of it. Photography is about interpretation, it's about your point of view, it's about how you see the world.

Scottish photographer and filmmaker known for provocative social documentary work

If a product is really good, time will give it the justice of beauty -that's real beauty, intelligence beauty, honest beauty.

Renowned French Industrial Designer & Architect Known for Innovative Product Design

His practice engages the broader public sphere through architectural projects and interventions in civic space.

Icelandic-Danish artist known for immersive light and weather installations

Art, for him, is a crucial means for turning thinking into doing in the world.

Icelandic-Danish artist known for immersive light and weather installations

Eliasson strives to make the concerns of art relevant to society at large.

Icelandic-Danish artist known for immersive light and weather installations

Cinema also exists within a framework of genre- and that can be challenging as genre can often flatten storytelling. It can also be a strength- when you play inside a genre- take the case of John le Carre for instance, he's a great novelist but works within the genre of spy-fiction, and transcends the usual narratives.

Director of Bourne action films and political thrillers

The greatest film-makers have an ability to work beyond the genre. Kubrick, Scorsese and even the great Ford who made Westerns, but transcended them. There's something about the vision of these film-makers that can use the supporting framework of a genre but create something which appeals to a wider story and audience. That's why they are the great masters.

Director of Bourne action films and political thrillers

In television, you have to start thinking in terms of images- and understand how drama changes from its theatrical to cinematic form.

British Filmmaker Known for Social Realist Films & Political Advocacy

I take it back to those still black and white photographs from earlier days, a form of photography that observes people, and explores the ways of observing them.

British Filmmaker Known for Social Realist Films & Political Advocacy

The look of a film indicates the relationship you have with characters. You don't pick an aesthetic in abstract – you need to have a core point, a core reason to make a film, and the form of aesthetic springs from that necessity. Everything has to relate to that core intention.

British Filmmaker Known for Social Realist Films & Political Advocacy

Contemporary photography is quite exploitative – and looks at people as objects in a display-case rather than as individuals with whom we have a shared common humanity, connection, and solidarity. Photography has gone from I am part of this, to look at this.

British Filmmaker Known for Social Realist Films & Political Advocacy

Without the internet and globalization, Ai Weiwei, as you know him, would not possible. My art comes from those influences and the persistent struggle to understand our time.

Chinese Artist & Dissident; Prominent Human Rights Activist and Political Critic

Art is necessary for the human mind. Art is about our dreams, fears, and imagination. Art is about everything outside of the system. It is a death sentence for art when it is within the system.

Chinese Artist & Dissident; Prominent Human Rights Activist and Political Critic