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“[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.”

Quote by Agnes Varda

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Agnes Varda, born on May 30, 1928, is a renowned French film director. Her works are known for their unique visual style and profound thematic exploration, which have had a profound impact on the French New Wave cinema. more

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“The first exhibition [Publo Picasso] was organized by the communist party - because of his position during the war and all that.”

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“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.”

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“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.”

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“I'd been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that's part of being shy.”

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“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.”

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“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.”

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“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.”

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“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.”

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“I didn't go to film school. I was never an assistant or trainee on a film. I had not seen all those cameras. So I think it gave me a lot of freedom.”

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“I see all these students, and I admire them - they're trying to learn something, they go to school, they do film school, they go on shoots, they help. I'm sure they learn a lot, and some of them, it makes them aware of what they wish to do. I was - that's the way I was - autodidact.”

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