Isidore Isou quotes

Our only means of original manifestation is to vomit these old masterpieces. Masterful spittle is our only opportunity to create within the Cinema our masterpieces. That's what Picasso stands for. He is a creator of deglutition and spittle, of old well-digested canvases. (Isidore Isou)
It is said that the public is stupid. That's why those who hold it in contempt never dare to offer it something original. View quote
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In my pictures I would use speech as an extra dimension supplementing the image ... Speech would not come off the screen in coincidence with the sequences, but from without, as if it were a surplus unconnected with the organism - a cravat of drivel hung on an ivory tooth. View quote
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The Cinema is too rich; it is obese. View quote
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There is no "worst" in what is new. Everything that has existed is bad, or else no one would have improved upon it by revolution and change. View quote
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Radio through television becomes a species of Cinema. Why shouldn't Cinema, in turn, become a species of radio? View quote
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The evolution of art has nothing to do with the revolution of society. View quote
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Your hissing and your booing make no impression on me, because from Victor Hugo's "Ernani" to Buñel's "The Age of Gold," Cannes Grand Prize winner, everything I have loved has always been hissed and booed at first. At the premiere of "The Age of Gold" the angry audience broke the theatre seats. What worse can happen to me, and how can that affect me? The seats do not belong to me. View quote
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I desire you, and all that comes with you. If I could only buy you and enjoy you, without having to go through all the formalities, without having to consider your personality et cetera ... There is nothing as boring as human personality. View quote
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From the point of view of photography, I'll smite the picture with sun rays. I'll take old stock shots and scratch them; I'll claw at them so that unknown beauty sees the light of day. I shall sculpt flowers upon the film stock. View quote
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There are so many films from which one leaves as stupid as one entered. I'd rather give you a migraine than nothing at all ... I'd rather ruin your eyes than leave you indifferent. (Isidore Isou)
The rigidity of forms impedes their transmission. These words are so heavy that the flow fails to carry them. Temperaments die before arriving at the goal (firing blanks). No word is capable of carrying the impulses one wants to send with it. View quote
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The flourishing of bursts of energy dies beyond us. All delirium is expansive. All impulses escape stereotyping. View quote
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The flourishing of bursts of energy dies beyond us. View quote
Isidore Isou

Isidore Isou

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Photo: Juangris, CC BY-SA 4.0
Occupation: French Poet
Born: January 29, 1925
Died: July 28, 2007
Quotes count: 14
Wikipedia: Isidore Isou

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