“It's peaceful to think about the family as a group. I totally believe in extended families.” Quote by Agnes Varda
“I quit seeing some people who were saying bad things about women; I don't even want to meet them or see them.” PeopleWantSeeingQuittingBad ThingsI QuitSaying Bad Things Author:Agnes Varda
“[Pablo] Picasso really changed my life. It's strange to say so, but I started to see some Picasso paintings very early. I was very young, and he was not so much known.” YoungKnownChangedStrangePaintingChanged My Life Author:Agnes Varda
“The first exhibition [Publo Picasso] was organized by the communist party - because of his position during the war and all that.” FirstsWarPartyPositionOrganizedCommunistExhibitionsCommunist Party Author:Agnes Varda
“The freedom he gave himself to work and change shape and change ideas and work all the time with joy, the joy of painting was in [Publo] Picasso, which I found beautiful.” IdeasBeautifulJoyFoundPaintingShapes Author:Agnes Varda
“I never met Publo Picasso. I took pictures at the Festival d'Avignon, but I was too shy to ask to go in his studio. It does not look like me now, but I was very shy, and shy of men also. I think there was a world that frightened me totally.” ThinkingMenWorldLooksDoeAsksMetsStudiosLike MeShyFrightenedFestivals Author:Agnes Varda
“I'd been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that's part of being shy.” EducatedShyBeing Shy Author:Agnes Varda
“If you know nothing, it could be like an enemy in a way. I think that's the way I felt when I was young.” IfsThinkingKnowsWayYoungFeltEnemy Author:Agnes Varda
“I was eighteen, this was back in '46, so we also had these very frightening images of soldiers in the streets of Paris. So the effect of war, plus my shyness, plus my lack of education - I was afraid of men, really. It changes later, but it took me a certain time to adjust.” MenWarCertainStreetsEffectsSoldierParisPlusFrighteningEighteenShynessLack Of EducationEffects Of WarStreets Of Paris Author:Agnes Varda
“I thought, If I'm an ancestor and grandmother when I'm twenty-five, I should go peacefully to the real time when I'm an ancestor and a grandmother.” IfsShouldRealFiveTwentiesGrandmotherAncestorTwenty Five Author:Agnes Varda
“Sometimes I say, If I had seen some masterpieces, maybe I wouldn't have dared start. I started very - not innocent, but naïve in a way.” IfsWaySometimesInnocentMasterpiece Author:Agnes Varda