Quotes About Expression

All films are born free and equal.

inherited from the theater, the actor expresses something: a feeling, a passion, a desire, an idea. From his attitude and his miming the spectator can read his face like an open book.

it calls upon the actor to be before expressing himself. This requirement does not necessarily imply doing away with the professional actor but it normally tends to substitute the man in the street, chosen uniquely for his general comportment, his ignorance of theatrical technique being less a positively required condition

Is not neorealism primarily a kind of humanism and only secondarily a style of film-making?

The simplest Surrealist act consists of dashing down the street, pistol in hand, and firing blindly, as fast as you can pull the trigger, into the crowd. Anyone who, at least once in his life, has not dreamed of thus putting an end to the petty system of debasement and cretinization in effect has a well-defined place in that crowd with his belly at barrel-level.

La beauté sera CONVULSIVE ou ne sera pas.

The lamentable expression: 'But it was only a dream", the increasing use of which - among others in the domain of the cinema - has contributed not a little to encourage such hypocrisy, has for a long while ceased to merit discussion.

Le coeur humain, beau comme un sismographe.

La vie est autre que ce qu'on écrit.

I wish I could change my sex as easily as I can change my shirt.

Beauty will be convulsive or not at all.

Quiero que la gente se calle tan pronto deje de sentir

The act of love and the act of poetry Are not compatible With the reading aloud of a newspaper

The exquisite corpse will drink the young wine. (Le cadavre exquis boira le vin nouveau.)

Asimismo, he podido desear ver construir un objeto muy especial que respondiese a una fantasía poética cualquiera.

L'Amour, la Poésie, c'est par ce seul ressort que la pensée humaine parviendra à reprendre le large.

Chère imagination, ce que j'aime surtout en toi, c'est que tu ne pardonnes pas.

Engrave this Quote Psychic automatism in its pure state, by which one proposes to express -- verbally, by means of the written word, or in any other manner -- the actual functioning of thought. Dictated by the thought, in the absence of any control exercised by reason, exempt from any aesthetic or moral concern.

Psychic automatism in its pure state, by which one proposes to express ? verbally, by means of the written word, or in any other manner ? the actual functioning of thought. Dictated by the thought, in the absence of any control exercised by reason, exempt from any aesthetic or moral concern.

I salute Antonin Artaud for his passionate, heroic negation of everything which causes us to be dead while alive.

We have said nothing about Chirico until we take into account his most personal views about the artichoke, the glove, the cookie, or the spool.

Hugo est surréaliste quand il n'est pas bête.

Beauty will be CONVULSIVE or it will not be at all.

Le coeur humain est beau comme un sismographe.