"The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life. Unlike painting and literature, the cinema both gives to life and takes from it, and I try to render this concept in my films. Literature and painting both exist as art from the very start; the cinema doesn't."

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Source : "Godard". Book by Richard Roud, 1970.

Jean-Luc Godard

#Art Quotes #Giving Quotes #Trying Quotes

“I think trauma gets a reductive treatment. We tend to think only violence or molestation or total abandonment qualify as "childhood trauma," but there are so many ruptures and disturbances in childhood that imprint themselves on us. Attachment begets trauma, in that broader sense, and so if we've ever been dependent on anyone, I think there is an Imago blueprint in us somewhere.”
“Because they have been in love they have survived everything that life could throw at them, even their own failures.”
“I believe that saying a thing is to keep its virtues and take away its terror.”
“People talk about skating, puck handling and shooting, but the whole sport is angles and caroms, forgetting the straight direction the puck is going, calculating where it will be directed, factoring in all the interruptions. Basically, my whole game is angles.”
“Well, I was lost but now I live here! I have severely improved my predicament!”
“There is no solution to any world problem, to any national problem, to any city problem or to any local problem, unless and until people get their Realization.”
“If You Want To Rebel Against Society, Donâ€™t Dull The Blade”
“Boo, Forever Spinning like a ghost on the bottom of a top, I'm haunted by all the space that I will live without you.”

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