Robert Bresson Quotes

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• Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.

  Robert Bresson

  Inspiring, Photography, Creative

  Robert Bresson (2016). “Notes on the Cinematograph”, p.38, New York Review of Books

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• The ear is profound, whereas the eye is frivolous, too easily satisfied. The ear is active, imaginative, whereas the eye is passive. When you hear a noise at night, instantly you imagine its cause. The sound of a train whistle conjures up the whole station. The eye can perceive only what is presented to it.

  Robert Bresson

  Eye, Night, Profound

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• When a sound can replace an image, cut the image or neutralize it. The ear goes more towards the within, the eye towards the outer.

  Robert Bresson

  Eye, Cutting, Sound

  Robert Bresson (2016). “Notes on the Cinematograph”, p.29, New York Review of Books

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• 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.

  Robert Bresson

  Real, Flower, Order

  Robert Bresson (2016). “Notes on the Cinematograph”, p.13, New York Review of Books

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• Hide the ideas, but so that people find them. The most important will be the most hidden.

  Robert Bresson

  Ideas, People, Important

  Robert Bresson (2016). “Notes on the Cinematograph”, p.21, New York Review of Books

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• Be the first to see what you see as you see it.

  Robert Bresson

  Firsts

  Robert Bresson (2016). “Notes on the Cinematograph”, p.27, New York Review of Books

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• The future of cinematography belongs to a new race of young solitaries who will shoot films by putting their last penny into it and not let themselves be taken in by the material routines of the trade.

  Robert Bresson

  Taken, Race, Lasts

  Robert Bresson (2016). “Notes on the Cinematograph”, p.56, New York Review of Books

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• An old thing becomes new if you detach it from what usually surrounds it.

  Robert Bresson

  Old Things, Novelty, Surround

  Robert Bresson (2016). “Notes on the Cinematograph”, p.27, New York Review of Books

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• When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best - that is inspiration.

  Robert Bresson

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Robert Bresson (2016). “Notes on the Cinematograph”, p.38, New York Review of Books

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• Ten properties of an object, according to Leonardo: light and dark, color and substance, form and position, distance and nearness, movement and stillness.

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  Distance, Dark, Light

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• The eye solicited alone makes the ear impatient, the ear solicited alone makes the eye impatient. Use these impatiences. Power of the cinematographer who appeals to the two senses in a governable way. Against the tactics of speed, of noise, set tactics of slowness, of silence.

  Robert Bresson

  Eye, Two, Silence

  Robert Bresson (2016). “Notes on the Cinematograph”, p.30, New York Review of Books

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• Prefer what intuition whispers in your ear to what you have done and redone ten times in your head.

  Robert Bresson

  Intuition, Done, Ears

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• To create is not to deform or invent persons and things. It is to tie new relationships between persons and things which are, and as they are.

  Robert Bresson

  New Relationship, Ties, Persons

  Robert Bresson (2016). “Notes on the Cinematograph”, p.14, New York Review of Books

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• Catch instants. Spontaneity, freshness.

  Robert Bresson

  Spontaneity, Instant, Freshness

  Robert Bresson (2016). “Notes on the Cinematograph”, p.18, New York Review of Books

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• Unbalance so as to re-balance.

  Robert Bresson

  Balance

  Robert Bresson (2016). “Notes on the Cinematograph”, p.21, New York Review of Books

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• Ideally, nothing should be shown, but that’s impossible.

  Robert Bresson

  Impossible, Should

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• Bring together things that have as yet never been brought together and did not seem predisposed to be so.

  Robert Bresson

  Together, Seems

  "Notes on the Cinematograph".

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• For me, film-making is combining images and sounds of real things in an order that makes them effective. What I disapprove of is photographing things that are not real. Sets and actors are not real.

  Robert Bresson

  Real, Order, Sound

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Practice the precept: find without seeking

  Robert Bresson

  Practice, Seeking

  Robert Bresson (2016). “Notes on the Cinematograph”, p.31, New York Review of Books

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• Empty the pond to get the fish.

  Robert Bresson

  Ponds, Empty, Fishes

  Robert Bresson (2016). “Notes on the Cinematograph”, p.44, New York Review of Books

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• The point is not to direct someone, but to direct oneself.

  Robert Bresson

  Oneself, Direct

  Robert Bresson (2016). “Notes on the Cinematograph”, p.9, New York Review of Books

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• The most ordinary word, when put into place, suddenly acquires brilliance. That is the brilliance with which your images must shine.

  Robert Bresson

  Writing, Shining, Ordinary

  Robert Bresson (1977). “Notes on cinematography”

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• The things one can express with the hand, with the head, with the shoulders!... How many useless and encumbering words then disappear! What economy!

  Robert Bresson

  Hands, Useless, Economy

  Robert Bresson (2016). “Notes on the Cinematograph”, p.6, New York Review of Books

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• 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.

  Robert Bresson

  Film, Made, Passing

  "The Films Of Robert Bresson: A Retrospective" by Rodrigo Perez, www.indiewire.com. April 18, 2012.

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• Provoke the unexpected. Expect it.

  Robert Bresson

  Unexpected, Provoking

  Robert Bresson (2016). “Notes on the Cinematograph”, p.46, New York Review of Books

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