All Robert Bresson Quotes
- When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best - that is inspiration. Best
- The most ordinary word, when put into place, suddenly acquires brilliance. That is the brilliance with which your images must shine. Acquires
- Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen. Been
- Films can only be made by by-passing the will of those who appear in them, using not what they do, but what they are. Appear
- My movie is born first in my head, dies on paper; is resuscitated by the living persons and real objects I use, which are killed… Born
- Laugh at a bad reputation. Fear a good one that you could not sustain. Bad
- Unbalance so as to re-balance. Balance
- It is in its pure form that an art hits hard. Art
- The crude real will not by itself yield truth. Crude
- Let nothing be changed and all be different. All
- Hide the ideas, but so that people find them. The most important will be the most hidden. Find
- Empty the pond to get the fish. Empty
- Provoke the unexpected. Expect it. Expect
- Nothing more inelegant and ineffective than an art conceived in another art's form. Art
- The faculty of using my resources well diminishes when their number grows. Diminishes
- A too-expected image (cliché) will never seem right, even if it is. Clich
- The future of cinematography belongs to a new race of young solitaries who will shoot films by putting their last penny into it and not… Belongs
- Ten properties of an object, according to Leonardo: light and dark, color and substance, form and position, distance and nearness, movement and stillness. According
- In the NUDE, all that is not beautiful is obscene. All
- An old thing becomes new if you detach it from what usually surrounds it. Becomes
- The ear is profound, whereas the eye is frivolous, too easily satisfied. The ear is active, imaginative, whereas the eye is passive. When you hear… Active
- To create is not to deform or invent persons and things. It is to tie new relationships between persons and things which are, and as… Create
- The true is inimitable, the false untransformable. False
- Cinema, radio, television, and magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen without hearing. Attention
- The point is not to direct someone, but to direct oneself. Direct