“Reality has a quality of freedom about it that is hard to explain.” HardRealityQuality Author:Michelangelo Antonioni
“Do you really think a man must be strong, masculine, dominating, and the woman frail, obedient and sensitive? This is a conventional idea. Reality is quite different.” ThinkingMenIdeasDifferentRealityStrongSensitiveConventionalMasculineObedientFrailDominating Author:Michelangelo Antonioni
“Women are a finer filter of reality. They can sniff things.” RealityFilters Author:Michelangelo Antonioni
“A particular type of film emerged from World War Two, with the Italian neorealist school. It was perfectly right for its time, which was as exceptional as the reality around us. Our major interest focused on that and on how we could relate to it. Later, when the situation normalized and post-war life returned to what it had been in peacetime, it became important to see the intimate, interior consequences of all that had happened.” WorldTwoImportantWarRealitySchoolFilmInterestSituationHappenedParticularTypeMajorsConsequenceFocusedPostsRelateIntimateWar Of The WorldsItalianInteriorsExceptionalWorld War TwoPost War Author:Michelangelo Antonioni
“In any case, the idea of giving "all" of reality is overly simple and absurd.” GivingIdeasRealitySimpleCasesAbsurd Author:Michelangelo Antonioni
“It's untrue to say the colors I use are not those of reality. They are real: The red I use is red; the green, green; blue, blue; and yellow, yellow. It's a matter of arranging them differently from the way I find them, but they are always real colors. So it's not true that when I tint a road or a wall, they become unreal. They stay real, though colored differently for my scene.” WayRealMatterUseRealityColorWallSceneRedBlueGreenYellowUnrealUntrueArrangingBlue And Yellow Author:Michelangelo Antonioni
“Reality itself is steadily becoming more colored. Think of what factories were like, especially in Italy at the beginning of the 19th century, when industrialization was just beginning: gray, brown and smoky. Color didn't exist. Today, instead, most everything is colored. The pipe running from the basement to the 12th floor is green because it carries steam. The one carrying electricity is red, and that with water is purple. Also, plastic colors have filled our homes, even revolutionized our taste. Pop art grew out of that and was possible because of this change in taste.” ThinkingArtHomeRealityRunningTodayWaterCenturyColorGrewBecomingTasteRedGreenFilledPopsBrownCarrieGrayFactoriesPlasticElectricityPurplePipeSteam19th CenturyBecoming MoreBasementsPop ArtIndustrialization Author:Michelangelo Antonioni
“We know that behind every image revealed there is another image more faithful to reality, and in the back of that image there is another, and yet another behind the last one, and so on, up to the true image of that absolute, mysterious reality that no one will ever see.” KnowsArtRealityLastsBehindsCreativityPhotographyAbsolutesMysteriousFaithful Author:Michelangelo Antonioni
“The photographer in Blow-Up, who is not a philosopher, wants to see things closer up. But it so happens that, by enlarging too far, the object itself decomposes and disappears. Hence there's a moment in which we grasp reality, but then the moment passes. This was in part the meaning of Blow-Up.” WantMomentsRealityHappensObjectsPhotographerPhilosopherBlowDisappear Author:Michelangelo Antonioni
