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Quotes by French Authors
"Great thoughts always come from the heart."
"An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis."
"Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks, there is no reason why our minds should be overwhelmed with fear and overcome with weariness."
"In the case of composite colour, an infinity of systems must be obtained for maxima infinitely slight and with an infinity of interval values separating them - that is to say, the whole thickness of the sensitive layer is occupied in continuous manner by these maxima."
"A very small cause which escapes our notice determines a considerable effect that we cannot fail to see, and then we say that the effect is due to chance."
"France is the only nation in which astoundingly small numbers of civilized patrons reside."
"A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them."
"If cinema is a woman then certainly there are many shores."
"It's, I mean, for me, it's the same as training with my crewmembers. We share the same first part of the flight. We all go together. It's the most critical part of the flight, the ascent."
"Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn't had an audience, and lines to speak?"
"The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects."
"The character is close to me, except that I haven't lived through those situations, so it's not completely me."
"Some months ago, while I was preparing a new work, I told a young cinema executive my intention of including in a soundtrack two themes from Bach. But when he asked me which has been the last hit from that Bach?, then I knew that I had no longer place in cinema."
"I don't see America as a mainland, but as a sea, a big ocean. Sometimes a storm arises, a formidable current develops, and it seems it will engulf everything. Wait a moment, another current will appear and bring the first one to naught."
"The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author's life."
"How did I picture the life after the grave?I Fairly bawled out at him: 'A life in which I can remember this life on earth. That's all I want of it."
"If we knew exactly the laws of nature and the situation of the universe at the initial moment, we could predict exactly the situation of the same universe at a succeeding moment."
"Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better."
"I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing."
"But history is neither watchmaking nor cabinet construction. It is an endeavor toward better understanding."
"But the Republic has its rules and it must not tolerate any abuse of them."
"The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence."
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