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Jean-Luc Godard Quotes



Quotes by Jean-Luc Godard - (20 quotes)

Jean-Luc Godard - From the Beauty category:

Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion. (Jean-Luc Godard)

Jean-Luc Godard - From the Copying category:

There is no such thing as intellectual property. (Jean-Luc Godard)

Jean-Luc Godard - From the Deception category:

Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world. (Jean-Luc Godard)

Jean-Luc Godard - From the Editing category:

Every edit is a lie. (Jean-Luc Godard)

Jean-Luc Godard - From the Ideas category:

It's not where you take things from - it's where you take them to. (Jean-Luc Godard)

Jean-Luc Godard - From the Immortality category:

-Breathless...
To be immortal and then die. (Jean-Luc Godard)

Jean-Luc Godard - From the Mirrors category:

Mirrors should reflect before sending an image. (Jean-Luc Godard)

Jean-Luc Godard - From the Modernism category:

One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together. (Jean-Luc Godard)

Jean-Luc Godard - From the Morality category:

The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea. (Jean-Luc Godard)

Jean-Luc Godard - From the Observation category:

Objects exist and, if one pays more attention to them than to people, it is precisely because they exist more than the people. Dead objects are still alive. Living people are often already dead. (Jean-Luc Godard)

Jean-Luc Godard - From the Photography category:

Photography is truth. And cinema is truth twenty-four times a second. (Jean-Luc Godard)

Jean-Luc Godard - From the Poetry category:

Poetry is a game of loser-take-all. (Jean-Luc Godard)

Jean-Luc Godard - From the Questions category:

To be or not to be. That's not really a question. (Jean-Luc Godard)

Jean-Luc Godard - From the Reality category:

Sometimes reality is too complex. Stories gives it form. (Jean-Luc Godard)

Jean-Luc Godard - From the Research category:

I've always wanted, basically, to do research in the form of a spectacle. (Jean-Luc Godard)

Jean-Luc Godard - From the Revelation category:

Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self. (Jean-Luc Godard)

Jean-Luc Godard - From the Sadness category:

The world isn't a sad place, it's just big. (Jean-Luc Godard)

Jean-Luc Godard - From the Silence category:

- La Nouvelle Vague...
Why must one talk? Often one shouldn't talk, but live in silence. The more one talks, the less the words mean. (Jean-Luc Godard)

Jean-Luc Godard - From the Style category:

To me style is just the outside of content, and content the inside of style, like the outside and the inside of the human body. Both go together, they can't be separated. (Jean-Luc Godard)

Jean-Luc Godard - From the Writing category:

A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end... but not necessarily in that order. (Jean-Luc Godard)