Quotes by Jonas Mekas

Jonas Mekas

An adventurer can always return home; an exile cannot. So I decided that my home would be culture.

Culture

Home

Would Be

As a film-maker and a poet, I feel it’s my duty to be an eye and an antenna to what’s happening around me. I always felt a solidarity with those who are desperate and confused and misused and are seeking a way out of it.

Confused

Eye

Way

For an artist, to be normal is a disaster

Artist

Disaster

Normal

For me, to catch, to celebrate the reality and life and friends and everything around me the very moment it happens – that’s what is, that’s what I’m possessed by.

Celebrate

Moments

Reality

I always work only with friends, but it must be about them and myself. Because I film only very personal moments, nothing preplanned, staged or written, it has to be real and spontaneous. Some of them have become famous, some are not yet famous, some will never be famous. But they are all my friends.

Film

Moments

Real

I am very active on the Internet. In 2007, I made one film every day and posted it on my website. That was a 365-day project, really exhausting, but I still put a lot of stuff on – from life, friends, my own life.

Film

Internet

Stuff

I began writing poetry when I was about 10. Bad poetry, but you start with bad poetry.

Writing

Writing Poetry

I brought Yoko Ono to New York and gave her her first job there. I was editing a magazine called Film Culture.

Editing

Jobs

New York

I had the fortune to spend some time, mostly during the summers, with Jackie Kennedy’s and her sister Lee Radziwill’s families and children. Cinema was an integral, inseparable, as a matter of fact, a key part of our friendship.

Children

Keys

Summer

I make home movies-therefore I live. I live – therefore I make home movies.

Home

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Art

Artist

Attention

Black

Break

Brother

Cameras

Care

Celebrate

Challenges

Children

Civilization

Color

Confused

Connections

Country

Creation

Culture

Dimensions

Disaster

Editing

Essence

Essentials

Etc

Europe

Expression

Eye

Film

Flower

Focus

Frozen

Generations

Giving

Home

I Can

Insignificant

Internet

Jobs

Keys

Levels

Light

Long

Mean

Moments

Needed

Needs

New York

Normal

Order

Pay

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Quotes by Jonas Mekas

Jonas Mekas

An adventurer can always return home; an exile cannot. So I decided that my home would be culture.

As a film-maker and a poet, I feel it’s my duty to be an eye and an antenna to what’s happening around me. I always felt a solidarity with those who are desperate and confused and misused and are seeking a way out of it.

For an artist, to be normal is a disaster

For me, to catch, to celebrate the reality and life and friends and everything around me the very moment it happens – that’s what is, that’s what I’m possessed by.

I am very active on the Internet. In 2007, I made one film every day and posted it on my website. That was a 365-day project, really exhausting, but I still put a lot of stuff on – from life, friends, my own life.

I began writing poetry when I was about 10. Bad poetry, but you start with bad poetry.

I brought Yoko Ono to New York and gave her her first job there. I was editing a magazine called Film Culture.

I had the fortune to spend some time, mostly during the summers, with Jackie Kennedy’s and her sister Lee Radziwill’s families and children. Cinema was an integral, inseparable, as a matter of fact, a key part of our friendship.

I make home movies-therefore I live. I live – therefore I make home movies.

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