Film is not analysis, it is the agitation of mind; cinema comes from the country fair and the circus, not from art and academicism.
- Werner HerzogIt is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well painted. This is the essence of academicism.
- Mark RothkoThis is the great vice of academicism, that it is concerned with ideas rather than with thinking.
- Alois Hadamczik