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• Nothing more inelegant and ineffective than an art conceived in another art's form.

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  Art, Form

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

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• Cinematography is a writing with images in mouvement and with sounds.

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  Writing, Sound, Cinematography

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• A too-expected image (cliché) will never seem right, even if it is.

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  Expected, Seems, Ifs

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

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• Cinematography, a military art. Prepare a film like a battle.

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  Art, Military, Battle

  Robert Bresson (2016). “Notes on the Cinematograph”, p.15, New York Review of Books

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• The true is inimitable, the false untransformable.

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  Originality

  Robert Bresson (2016). “Notes on the Cinematograph”, p.5, New York Review of Books

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• Let nothing be changed and all be different.

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  Different, Changed

  Robert Bresson (2016). “Notes on the Cinematograph”, p.62, New York Review of Books

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• Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing.

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  School, Media, People

  "Notes on the Cinematograph".

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• Laugh at a bad reputation. Fear a good one that you could not sustain.

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  Laughing, Reputation, Bad Reputation

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

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

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  Art, Form, Pure

  Robert Bresson (2016). “Notes on the Cinematograph”, p.41, New York Review of Books

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• Two types of films: those that employ the resources of the theater (actors, direction, etc...) and use the camera in order to reproduce; those that employ the resources of cinematography and use the camera to create

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  Order, Two, Use

  Robert Bresson (2016). “Notes on the Cinematograph”, p.10, New York Review of Books

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• A film is born in my head and I kill it on paper. It is brought back to life by the actors and then killed in the camera. It is then resurrected into a third and final life in the editing room where the dismembered pieces are assembled into their finished form.

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  Editing, Actors, Pieces

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• Master Precision. Be a precision instrument myself.

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  Masters, Precision, Instruments

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

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• Hostility to art is also hostility to the new, to the unforeseen.

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  Art, Art Is, Unforeseen

  Robert Bresson (2016). “Notes on the Cinematograph”, p.61, New York Review of Books

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• Model. Two mobile eyes in a mobile head, itself on a mobile body.

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  Eye, Two, Body

  Robert Bresson (2016). “Notes on the Cinematograph”, p.19, New York Review of Books

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• The faculty of using my resources well diminishes when their number grows.

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  Numbers, Resources, Faculty

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

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• The crude real will not by itself yield truth.

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  Real, Yield, Crude

  Robert Bresson (2016). “Notes on the Cinematograph”, p.48, New York Review of Books

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• In the NUDE, all that is not beautiful is obscene.

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  Beauty, Beautiful, Nudity

  Robert Bresson (2016). “Notes on the Cinematograph”, p.61, New York Review of Books

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