Our bodies are at once the receiving and transmitting stations for life itself. It is the highest wisdom to recognize this fact and train our bodies to render them sensitive and responsive to nature. art and religion.

Cinema is still a very young art form with extraordinary techniques and very impressive special effects but sometimes it seems the soul has been taken out of things.

Film is a very young art that is still evolving. Soon, we shall reach a balance between content and technology.

Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint.

If Art relates itself to an Object, it becomes descriptive, divisionist, literary.

This communication alone, by the comparison of the antagonisms, rivalries, movements which give birth to decisive moments, permits the evolution of the soul, whereby a man realizes himself on earth. It is impossible to be concerned with anything else in art.

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.

Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it.

One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement.

No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.

Extreme complication is contrary to art.

Art is the most beautiful of all lies.

Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory.

Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art.

There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.