“Today we no longer know what to call art, what its function is and even less what function it will have in the future. We know only that it is something dynamic - unlike many ideas that have governed us.” KnowsArtIdeasTodayFunction Author:Michelangelo Antonioni
“Take Einstein; wasn't he looking for something stable and changeless in this enormous, constantly changing melting pot that is the universe? He sought fixed rules. Today, instead, it would be helpful to find all those rules that show how and why the universe is not fixed - how this dynamism develops and acts. Then maybe we will be able to explain many things, perhaps even art, because the old instruments of judgment, the old aesthetics, are no longer of any use to us - so much so that we no longer know what's beautiful and what isn't.” KnowsArtUseShowsWould BeTodayAbleBeautifulUniverseJudgmentArt IsInstrumentsEnormousFixedHelpfulPotStableAestheticsMeltingMelting PotDynamism Author:Michelangelo Antonioni
“Innovation comes spontaneously. I don't know if I've done anything new. If I have, it's just because I had begun to feel for some time that I couldn't stand certain films, certain modes, certain ways of telling a story, certain tricks of plot development, all of it predictable and useless.” IfsKnowsWayFeelsDoneStoriesFilmCertainDevelopmentInnovationTricksUselessPlotPredictable 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
“I didn't like university life much at Bologna. The subjects I studied - economics and business administration - didn't interest me. I wanted to make films. I was glad when I was graduated. Yet it's odd; on graduation day, I was overcome with a terrible sadness. I realized that my youth was over and now the struggle had begun.” WantedFilmInterestStruggleSadnessSubjectsYouthTerribleEconomicsOvercomingUniversityI RealizedGladAdministrationOddGraduation DayBolognaBusiness Administration Author:Michelangelo Antonioni
“After you've learned two or three basic rules of cinema grammar, you can do what you like - including breaking those rules.” TwoThreeCan DoIncludingCinemaGrammar Author:Michelangelo Antonioni
“I've made films about the middle classes because I know them best. Everyone talks about what he knows best.” KnowsMadeFilmClassMiddleMiddle Class Author:Michelangelo Antonioni
“The struggle for life is not only the material and economic one. Comfort is no protection from anxiety.” Life IsStruggleEconomicMaterialsComfortAnxietyProtection Author:Michelangelo Antonioni
“In any case, the idea of giving "all" of reality is overly simple and absurd.” GivingIdeasRealitySimpleCasesAbsurd Author:Michelangelo Antonioni