Jean-Luc Godard Quotes About Painting

Quotes about: Painting

• 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.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Art, Giving, Trying

  "Godard". Book by Richard Roud, 1970.

• Even with painting, even abstract paintings, you need the incoming of, light on the canvas.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Light, Abstract Painting, Needs

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• (Landscapes) are too close to painting. And TV has nothing to do with painting. It's just transmission. And you can't transmit a landscape, happily enough.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Landscape, Tvs, Painting

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• TV has nothing to do with painting. It's just transmission.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Tvs, Painting, Transmission

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• There are different kinds of painting, some with lights and some without, but still if you look at any painting here (in the light) and then over here (out of the light) it's an entirely different thing. The consciousness of this came to the Impressionists and I'm very interested in that.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Light, Different, Looks

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• Self-portraits have been done in painting, but never in music or literature. It has no meaning, it makes no sense. And in movies I was wondering if it could. And how.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Self, Done, Literature

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