Artist Quotes by Agnes Varda

I wasn't attracted to American cinema, but I fell in love with Los Angeles the minute I arrived.

— Agnes Varda

I hated myself totally white. So now I cheat. It's my white hair, and I put color there. My grandson says I'm punk.

— Agnes Varda

The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It's unbelievable. The film critics don't know my artwork and the art world doesn't…

— Agnes Varda

I was nineteen and I put a bowl on and I said, Cut around! Because it was not the fashion at the time when…

— Agnes Varda

I see all these students, and I admire them - they're trying to learn something, they go to school, they do film school, they…

— Agnes Varda

I was free always. I could work without the money, to film this and that. But this is another point, because now I'm alone,…

— Agnes Varda

I am small. I was always small. But only physically.

— Agnes Varda

When I love somebody, I cannot drop it out of my life. Love is not something like you open and you close, you know?

— Agnes Varda

I never met Publo Picasso. I took pictures at the Festival d'Avignon, but I was too shy to ask to go in his studio.…

— Agnes Varda

I had a world. I don't think I had a career. I made films.

— Agnes Varda

I saw 'Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs' when it came out, didn't like it too much. I found she was stupid.

— Agnes Varda

You have to invent life.

— Agnes Varda

I'm still fighting. I don't know how much longer, but I'm still fighting a struggle, which is to make cinema alive and not just…

— Agnes Varda

The first exhibition [Publo Picasso] was organized by the communist party - because of his position during the war and all that.

— Agnes Varda

I was a photographer first.I worked alone. I did it my way as much as I could. I have been sort of courageous about…

— Agnes Varda