Home / Quotes / Quote by Michelangelo Antonioni

Quote by 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.”

Quote by Michelangelo Antonioni

Author

Michelangelo Antonioni

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

You May Also Like

“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.”

Author:Michelangelo Antonioni

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

Author:Jack Kevorkian

“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.”

Knows Art Ideas Today Function

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.”

Knows Art Use Shows Would Be Today Able Beautiful Universe Judgment Art Is Instruments Enormous Fixed Helpful Pot Stable Aesthetics Melting Melting Pot Dynamism

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.”

Ifs Knows Way Feels Done Stories Film Certain Development Innovation Tricks Useless Plot Predictable

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.”

“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.”

Wanted Film Interest Struggle Sadness Subjects Youth Terrible Economics Overcoming University I Realized Glad Administration Odd Graduation Day Bologna Business 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.”

Two Three Can Do Including Cinema Grammar

Author:Michelangelo Antonioni