All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.
Be yourself. The world worships the original.
An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it.
Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.
The joy of the young is to disobey - but the trouble is that there are no longer any orders.
One sits down first one thinks afterwards.
The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.
An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.
We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?
I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.
The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by lo...
When I write, I disturb. When I show a film, I disturb. When I exhibit my painting, I disturb, and I disturb if I don't. I have a knack for disturbing.
I am a lie who always speaks the truth.
Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.
Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something othe...
The only tragic part of the making of was Jean Marais's terrible make-up which used to take five hours and from which he emerged as though after a surgical operation. Laurence Olivier said to me one...