"The great art of films does not consist……" — Louise Brooks
"The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation."
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17 Quotes by Louise Brooks
Louise Brooks has 17 quotes on this site.
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I have a gift for enraging people, but if I ever bore you it will be with a knife.
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In my dreams I am not crippled. In my dreams, I dance.
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There is no other occupation in the world that so closely resembled enslavement as the career of a film star.
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Writing is 1 percent inspiration, and 99 percent elimination.
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I never gave away anything without wishing I had kept it; nor kept anything without wishing I had given it…
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Most beautiful dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people, on the whole, aren't…
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When I went to Hollywood in 1927, the girls were wearing lumpy sweaters and skirts. I was wearing sleek suits…
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Love is a publicity stunt, and making love, after the first curious raptures, is only another petulant way to pass…
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Every actor has a natural animosity toward every other actor, present or absent, living or dead
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Anyone who has achieved excellence in any form knows that it comes as a result of ceaseless concentration.
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After a person dies, his biographers feel free to give him a glittering list of intimate friends. Anecdotes are so…
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The tragedy of film history is that it is fabricated, falsified, by the very people who make film history.
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A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the…
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Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them…
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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,…
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It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
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I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in…
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There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex,…
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I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new…
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I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your…
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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
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