Top 49 Robert Bresson Quotes
#1. I do believe in [Robert] Bresson's method of creation through omission, not through addition.
Abbas Kiarostami
#2. Hostility to art is also hostility to the new, to the unforeseen.
Robert Bresson
#3. Laugh at a bad reputation. Fear a good one that you could not sustain.
Robert Bresson
#4. Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing.
Robert Bresson
#6. Hide the ideas, but so that people find them. The most important will be the most hidden.
Robert Bresson
#7. Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.
Robert Bresson
#8. The eye solicited alone makes the ear impatient, the ear solicited alone makes the eye impatient. Use these impatiences. Power of the cinematographer who appeals to the two senses in a governable way.
Against the tactics of speed, of noise, set tactics of slowness, of silence.
Robert Bresson
#11. Master Precision. Be a precision instrument myself.
Robert Bresson
#13. For me, film-making is combining images and sounds of real things in an order that makes them effective. What I disapprove of is photographing things that are not real. Sets and actors are not real.
Robert Bresson
#14. In the NUDE, all that is not beautiful is obscene.
Robert Bresson
#15. Nothing more inelegant and ineffective than an art conceived in another art's form.
Robert Bresson
#16. Ten properties of an object, according to Leonardo: light and dark, color and substance, form and position, distance and nearness, movement and stillness.
Robert Bresson
#17. The things one can express with the hand, with the head, with the shoulders! ... How many useless and encumbering words then disappear! What economy!
Robert Bresson
#19. Model. Two mobile eyes in a mobile head, itself on a mobile body.
Robert Bresson
#20. Prefer what intuition whispers in your ear to what you have done and redone ten times in your head.
Robert Bresson
#21. Bring together things that have not yet been brought together and did not seem predisposed to be so.
Robert Bresson
#22. Ideally, nothing should be shown, but that's impossible.
Robert Bresson
#23. I'm a huge, huge fan of photography. I have a small photography collection. As soon as I started to make some money, I bought my very first photograph: an Henri Cartier-Bresson. Then I bought a Robert Frank.
Annie Leibovitz
#25. Cinema, radio, television, and magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen without hearing.
Robert Bresson
#26. The thing that matters is not what they show me but what they hide from me and, above all, what they do not suspect is in them.
Robert Bresson
#27. When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best
that is inspiration.
Robert Bresson
#28. A film is born in my head and I kill it on paper. It is brought back to life by the actors and then killed in the camera. It is then resurrected into a third and final life in the editing room where the dismembered pieces are assembled into their finished form.
Robert Bresson
#30. The faculty of using my resources well diminishes when their number grows.
Robert Bresson
#31. 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 they are.
Robert Bresson
#32. When a sound can replace an image, cut the image or neutralize it. The ear goes more towards the within, the eye towards the outer.
Robert Bresson
#33. 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 let themselves be taken in by the material routines of the trade.
Robert Bresson
#35. 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 on film but, placed in a certain order and projected onto a screen, come to life again like flowers in water.
Robert Bresson
#36. Cinematography, a military art. Prepare a film like a battle.
Robert Bresson
#37. Rid myself of the accumulated errors and untruths. Get to know my resources, make sure of them.
Robert Bresson
#39. An old thing becomes new if you detach it from what usually surrounds it.
Robert Bresson
#40. In an era when museum curators were busy introducing the public to photographs of daily life taken by Robert Frank, Henri Cartier-Bresson, and Diane Arbus, why did they simultaneously disdain paintings depicting the same kind of people?
Burton Silverman
#41. The true is inimitable, the false untransformable.
Robert Bresson
#42. 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.
Robert Bresson
#43. The greater the success, the closer it verges on failure.
Robert Bresson
#44. The most ordinary word, when put into place, suddenly acquires brilliance. That is the brilliance with which your images must shine.
Robert Bresson
#45. Cinematography is a writing with images in mouvement and with sounds.
Robert Bresson
#46. Be sure of having used to the full all that is communicated by immobility and silence.
Robert Bresson
#47. The point is not to direct someone, but to direct oneself.
Robert Bresson
#48. Two types of films: those that employ the resources of the theater (actors, direction, etc ... ) and use the camera in order to reproduce; those that employ the resources of cinematography and use the camera to create
Robert Bresson
#49. One recognizes the true by its efficacy, by its power.
Robert Bresson
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