78 quotes found
“Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what’s known as infinity.”
“Depuis le jour de ma naissance, ma mort s'est mise en marche. Elle marche à ma rencontre, sans se presser.”
“What is line? It is life. A line must live at each point along its course in such a way that the artist’s presence makes itself felt above that of the model... With the writer, line takes precedenc...”
“Film will only become an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.”
“After the writer’s death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.”
“Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few mom...”
“The trouble about the Académie is that by the time they get around to electing us to a seat, we really need a bed.”
“We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don’t like?”
“What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end; legends are lies which become history in the end.”
“The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.”
“Poetry is indispensable — if I only knew what for.”
“The ear disapproves but tolerates certain musical pieces; transfer them into the domain of our nose, and we will be forced to flee.”
“You’ve never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.”
“Commissions suit me. They set limits. Jean Marais dared me to write play in which he would not speak in the first act, would weep for joy in the second and in the last would fall backward down a fl...”
“That pile of paper on his left side went on living like the watch on a dead soldier’s wrist.”
“Don’t for a moment believe He was killing the young; He was costuming angels.”
“He has the manner of a giant with the look of a child, a lazy activeness, a mad wisdom, a solitude encompassing the world.”
“There are too many souls of wood not to love those wooden characters who do indeed have a soul.”
