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Quote by Michelangelo Antonioni

“I can't imagine love without a sexual charge.”

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Michelangelo Antonioni was an Italian film director known for his unique style and profound insights into modern society. His films are characterized by complex narrative structures and philosophical themes. more

“That love is a conflict seems to me obvious and natural. There isn't a single worthwhile work in world literature based on love that is only about the conquest of happiness, the effort to arrive at what we call love. It's the struggle that has always interested those who produce works of art - literature, cinema or poetry.”

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Author:Michelangelo Antonioni

“I can't give any absolute definition of what love is, or even whether it ought to exist.”

Giving I Can Love Is Ought Absolutes Definitions

Author:Michelangelo Antonioni

“I read somewhere that happiness is like the bluebird of Maeterlinck: Try to catch it and it loses its color. It's like trying to hold water in your hands. The more you squeeze it, the more the water runs away.”

Trying Hands Running Water Loses Color Running Away Bluebird

Author:Michelangelo Antonioni

“I'm more or less skeptical about marriage, because of family ties, relations between children and parents - it's all so depressing.”

Children Parent Relation Ties Depressing Skeptical Children And Parents Family Ties

Author:Michelangelo Antonioni

“The family today counts for less and less. Why? Who knows - the growth of science, the Cold War, the atomic bomb, the world war we've made, the new philosophies we've created; certainly something is happening to man, so why go against it, why oblige this new man to live by the mechanisms and regulations of the past?”

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Author:Michelangelo Antonioni

“When I see nature, when I look into the sky, the dawn, the sun, the colors of insects, snow crystals, the night stars, I don't feel a need for God. Perhaps when I can no longer look and wonder, when I believe in nothing - then, perhaps, I might need something else. But I don't know what.”

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Author:Michelangelo Antonioni

“All I know is that we are loaded down with old and stale stuff - habits, customs, old attitudes already dead and gone.”

Knows Stuff Attitude Gone Habit Customs Loaded Stale

Author:Michelangelo Antonioni

“I would throw out the sense of nation, "good breeding," certain forms and ceremonies that govern relationships - perhaps even jealousy. We're not aware of all of them yet, though we suffer from them. And they mislead us not only about ethics but also about aesthetics.”

Form Certain Suffering Nations Ethics Ceremony Aesthetics Mislead Breeding Good Breeding Mislead Us

Author:Michelangelo Antonioni

“The public buys "art" - but the word is drained of its meaning.”

Art Drained

Author:Michelangelo Antonioni

“I'm not lying to myself like most people.”

People Lying

Author:Jack Kevorkian

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