Jonas Mekas Professions : Filmmaker Born : December 24, 1922 Browse All Authors Top 42 quotes by Jonas Mekas I myself saw the great works of Western civilization for the first time in my high school in Lithuania in bad black-and-white reproductions on miserable paper. That was, for many years, what art was for me. But from those miserable black-and-white reproductions, I got something, something unmistakable. Jonas Mekas myself me time art When I came to New York in 1949, there was already an entire fresh avant-garde film movement blooming in New York and California. It was a very, very exciting period! Jonas Mekas fresh new film new-york Similar Authors Burnie Burns filmmaker Brian Lindstrom filmmaker Brian Koppelman filmmaker Anne Fontaine filmmaker Avi Lewis filmmaker Ava DuVernay filmmaker All Authors