Quotes About Expression

Authentic expression is something you can't invent. When you capture it, it's worthy of admiration.

Cinema, like music, should wash away the dust of everyday life.

Films can only be made by by-passing the will of those who appear in them, using not what they do, but what they are.

Le cinéma sonore a inventé le silence.

There must, at a certain point, be a transformation. If not, there is no art.

The truth of cinematography cannot be the truth of theatre, not the truth of the novel, nor the truth of painting. (What the cinematographer captures with his or her own resources cannot be what the theatre, the novel, painting capture with theirs).

To Bresson, art is the only possible escape from the bitterness of impotence.

Art is not in the mind. Art is in the eye, in the ear, in the memory of our senses. Images, dreams.

A quote by film director Robert Bresson (1901-1999), 'Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen' (as cited in The Independent I, 2019), encapsulates why, although there appears to be a gap between peers' early language skills, it is necessary to go beyond rhetoric and supposition.

My movie is born first in my head, dies on paper; is resuscitated by the living persons and real objects I use, which are killed on film but, placed in a certain order and projected on to a screen, come to life again like flowers in water.[3]

Ton public n'est ni le public des livres, ni celui des spectacles, ni celui des expositions, ni celui des concerts. Tu n'as à satisfaire ni le goût littéraire, ni le théâtral, ni le pictural, ni le musical.

My movie is born first in my head, dies on paper; is resuscitated by the living persons and real objects I use, which are killed on film but, placed in a certain order and projected onto a screen, come to life again like flowers in water.

It is in its pure form that an art hits hard.

Robert Bresson

if the poet becomes what-is, then what-is (and no one else) becomes the author of the poem.

Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form.

By all means break the rules, and break them beautifully, deliberately and well.

In a badly designed book, the letters mill and stand like starving horses in a field. In a book designed by rote, they sit like stale bread and mutton on the page. In a well-made book, where designer, compositor and printer have all done their jobs, no matter how many thousands of lines and pages, the letters are alive. They dance in their seats. Sometimes they rise and dance in the margins and aisles.

If language is lost, humanity is lost. If writing is lost, certain kinds of civilization and society are lost, but many other kinds remain - and there is no reason to think that those alternatives are inferior.

When you think intensely and beautifully, something happens. That something is called poetry. If you think that way and speak at the same time, poetry gets in your mouth. If people hear you, it gets in their ears. If you think that way and write at the same time, then poetry gets written. But poetry exists in any case. The question is only: are you going to take part, and if so, how?

Inscribe all human effort with one word, Artistry's haunting curse, the Incomplete!

What so wild as words are?

God is the perfect poet, Who in his person acts his own creations.

It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truths, to mouths like mine at least.