Agnes Varda Quotes About Painting

Quotes about: Painting

• [Pablo] Picasso really changed my life. It's strange to say so, but I started to see some Picasso paintings very early. I was very young, and he was not so much known.

  Agnes Varda

  Strange, Painting, Young

  Source: www.believermag.com

• The freedom he gave himself to work and change shape and change ideas and work all the time with joy, the joy of painting was in [Publo] Picasso, which I found beautiful.

  Agnes Varda

  Beautiful, Ideas, Joy

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. October 1, 2009.

• When I saw what painting had done in the last thirty years, what literature had done - people like Joyce and Virginia Woolf, Faulkner and Hemingway - in France we have Nathalie Sarraute - and paintings became so strongly contemporary while cinema was just following the path of theater. I have to do something which relates with my time, and in my time, we make things differently.

  Agnes Varda

  Virginia, Years, People

  Source: www.believermag.com

• I tried to find a language for the film - not just telling stories. I picked the Picasso painting because it said more than I could explain. I need images, I need representation which deals in other means than reality. We have to use reality but get out of it. That's what I try to do all the time.

  Agnes Varda

  Mean, Reality, Trying

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. October 1, 2009.

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