Artist Quotes by Federico Fellini

I even see the cinema itself as a woman, with its alternation of light and darkness, of appearing and disappearing images

— Federico Fellini

Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me.

— Federico Fellini

When work, commitment, and pleasure all become one and you reach that deep well where passion lives, nothing is impossible.

— Federico Fellini

As a writer and director, I want to know what is behind the good manners and soft voice. Who is inside the silhouette?

— Federico Fellini

Don't forget that costumes, like dreams, are symbolic communication. Dreams teach us that a language for everything exists - for every object, every color…

— Federico Fellini

It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive.

— Federico Fellini

We must get beyond passions, like a great work of art. In such miraculous harmony. We should learn to love each other so much…

— Federico Fellini

We can all pretend to be cynical and scheming, but when we’re faced with purity and innocence, the cynical mask drops off.

— Federico Fellini

The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded.…

— Federico Fellini

Everyone knows that time is Death, that Death hides in clocks. Imposing another time powered by the Clock of the Imagination, however, can refuse…

— Federico Fellini

Our duty as storytellers is to bring people to the station. There each person will choose his or her own train...But we must at…

— Federico Fellini

What's important is the way we say it. Art is all about craftsmanship. Others can interpret craftsmanship as style if they wish. Style is…

— Federico Fellini

There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the passion of life.

— Federico Fellini

My work has always been the thing that justifies my life.

— Federico Fellini

My relationship with my body has changed. I used to consider it as a servant who should obey, function, give pleasure. In sickness, you…

— Federico Fellini