Source: Notes on the Cinematographer
Filter quotes by topic
Famous Robert Bresson Quotes
“The greater the success, the closer it verges on failure.”
Source: Notes on the Cinematographer
Source: Notes on the Cinematograph
“Catch instants. Spontaneity, freshness.”
Source: Notes on the Cinematograph
“Master Precision. Be a precision instrument myself.”
Source: Notes on the Cinematograph
“Cinematography, a military art. Prepare a film like a battle.”
Source: Notes on the Cinematograph
“When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best - that is inspiration.”
Source: Notes on the Cinematograph
Source: Notes on cinematography
“Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.”
Source: Notes on the Cinematograph
“Hostility to art is also hostility to the new, to the unforeseen.”
Source: Notes on the Cinematograph
“Cinematography is a writing with images in mouvement and with sounds.”
Source: Notes on the Cinematograph
“Practice the precept: find without seeking”
Source: Notes on the Cinematograph
Source: Notes on the Cinematograph
“Be the first to see what you see as you see it.”
Source: Notes on the Cinematograph
Source: Notes on the Cinematograph
“Laugh at a bad reputation. Fear a good one that you could not sustain.”
Source: Notes on the Cinematograph
“Unbalance so as to re-balance.”
Source: Notes on the Cinematograph
“It is in its pure form that an art hits hard.”
Source: Notes on the Cinematograph
“The crude real will not by itself yield truth.”
Source: Notes on the Cinematograph
“Let nothing be changed and all be different.”
Source: Notes on the Cinematograph
“Hide the ideas, but so that people find them. The most important will be the most hidden.”
Source: Notes on the Cinematograph
“Empty the pond to get the fish.”
Source: Notes on the Cinematograph
“Provoke the unexpected. Expect it.”
Source: Notes on the Cinematograph
“Nothing more inelegant and ineffective than an art conceived in another art's form.”
Source: Notes on the Cinematograph
“The faculty of using my resources well diminishes when their number grows.”
Source: Notes on the Cinematograph
“A too-expected image (cliché) will never seem right, even if it is.”
Source: Notes on the Cinematograph
Source: Notes on the Cinematograph
“In the NUDE, all that is not beautiful is obscene.”
Source: Notes on the Cinematograph
“An old thing becomes new if you detach it from what usually surrounds it.”
Source: Notes on the Cinematograph
Source: Notes on the Cinematograph
“The true is inimitable, the false untransformable.”
Source: Notes on the Cinematograph
“The point is not to direct someone, but to direct oneself.”
Source: Notes on the Cinematograph
“Model. Two mobile eyes in a mobile head, itself on a mobile body.”
Source: Notes on the Cinematograph
Source: Notes on the Cinematograph