Robert Bresson Quotes

• Bring together things that have not yet been brought together and did not seem predisposed to be so.

  Robert Bresson

  Topics in Art

• When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best – that is inspiration.

  Robert Bresson

  Topics in Art

  Tags in Best, Doing

• The most ordinary word, when put into place, suddenly acquires brilliance. That is the brilliance with which your images must shine.

  Robert Bresson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Must, Put, Place

• My movie is born first in my head, dies on paper; is resuscitated by the living persons and real objects I use, which are killed on film but, placed in a certain order and projected on to a screen, come to life again like flowers in water.

  Robert Bresson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Real, Come, Living

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

  Robert Bresson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Eyes, Body

• Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.

  Robert Bresson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Without, Might, Seen

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

  Robert Bresson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Beautiful, Nude, Obscene

• Films can only be made by by-passing the will of those who appear in them, using not what they do, but what they are.

  Robert Bresson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Made, Films, Using

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

  Robert Bresson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in School, Without, Look

• An old thing becomes new if you detach it from what usually surrounds it.

  Robert Bresson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in New, Old, Become

Robert Bresson (10)

Birth:	25th September, 1901
Death:	18th December, 1999
Nationality:	French
Profession:	Director, Screenwriter

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Robert Bresson was a French film director known for his spiritual, ascetic style. He contributed notably to the art of film and influenced the French New Wave.

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