Robert Bresson

Quotes by Robert Bresson

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Filmmaker · French · 1901–1999

French filmmaker (1901–1999)

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“Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.”

“Nothing more inelegant and ineffective than an art conceived in another art's form.”

“When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best - that is inspiration.”

“When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best -- that is inspiration.”

“Bring together things that have not yet been brought together and did not seem predisposed to be so.”

“Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing”

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“Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.”
— Robert Bresson
inspirational

“Bring together things that have not yet been brought together and did not seem predisposed to be so.”
— Robert Bresson
art

“When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best -- that is inspiration.”
— Robert Bresson
art

“Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing”
— Robert Bresson
advertisements cinema media media-manipulation

“Nothing more inelegant and ineffective than an art conceived in another art's form.”
— Robert Bresson
art authenticity film integrity

“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 w...”
— Robert Bresson
film filmmaking impatience

“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, ...”
— Robert Bresson
cinematography film filmmaking

“When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best - that is inspiration.”
— Robert Bresson
Doing Know You