Luis Bunuel

Mystery is the essential element of every work of art.

— Luis Bunuel

“Me decía: ¡habrían tenido que hacerme leer a Sade antes que todas las demás cosas!”

— Luis Buñuel

If alcohol is queen, then tobacco is her consort. It's a fond companion for all occasions, a loyal friend through fair weather…

— Luis Bunuel

“A life without memory is no life at all”

— Luis Bunuel

A paranoiac, like a poet, is born, not made.

— Luis Bunuel

God and Country are an unbeatable team; they break all records for oppression and bloodshed.

— Luis Bunuel

I'm still an atheist, thank God.

— Luis Bunuel

Age is something that doesn't matter unless you're a cheese

— Luis Bunuel

I think films are perishable, because they depend too much on technology, which advances too quickly and the films become old-fashioned, antiques.…

— Luis Bunuel

The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time.

— Luis Bunuel

The bar... is an exercise in solitude. Above all else, it must be quiet, dark, very comfortable-and, contrary to modern mores, no…

— Luis Bunuel

I am an atheist, thanks be to God.

— Luis Bunuel

I can only wait for the final amnesia, the one that can erase an entire life.

— Luis Bunuel

Repeat, over and over again, in case anyone forgets it or believes the contrary, that we do not live in the best…

— Luis Bunuel

Salvador Dalí seduced many ladies, particularly American ladies, but these seductions usually consisted of stripping them naked in his apartment, frying a…

— Luis Bunuel

“One of the greatest tragedies in my life is my deafness, for it's been over twenty years now since I've been able…

— Luis Buñuel

Thank God, I am still an atheist.

— Luis Bunuel

If someone were to tell me I had twenty years left, and ask me how I'd like to spend them, I'd reply…

— Luis Bunuel

“Imposible beber sin fumar”

— Luis Buñuel

“As inexplicable as the accidents that set it off, our imagination is a crucial privilege. I've tried my whole life simply to…

— Luis Buñuel

You have to begin to lose your memory, if only in bits and pieces, to realize that memory is what makes our…

— Luis Buñuel

“Even today, I've no idea what the truth is, or what I did with it.”

— Luis Buñuel

Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our freedom, despite the fact that people keep trying…

— Luis Bunuel

“I also remember being struck by de Sade's will, in which he asked that his ashes be scattered to the four corners…

— Luis Buñuel

If someone were to prove to me - right this minute - that God, in all his luminousness, exists, it wouldn't change…

— Luis Buñuel