Luis Bunuel Quotes
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I can't help feeling that there is no beauty without hope, struggle, and conquest.
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Age is something that doesn't matter unless you're a cheese
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Thank God I'm an atheist.
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Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it, we are nothing.
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If someone were to tell me I had twenty years left, and ask me how I'd like to spend them, I'd reply 'Give me two hours a day of activity, and I'll take the other twenty-two in dreams.'
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Mystery is the essential element of every work of art.
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If you were to ask me if I'd ever had the bad luck to miss my daily cocktail, I'd have to say that I doubt it; where certain things are concerned, I plan ahead.
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The bar... is an exercise in solitude. Above all else, it must be quiet, dark, very comfortable-and, contrary to modern mores, no music of any kind, no matter how faint. In sum, there should be no more than a dozen tables, and a client that doesn't like to talk.
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The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time.
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Luis Bunuel's two semishort surrealist hand grenades (cowritten in varying degrees with Salvador Dali) make a double bill that can restore your faith in the subversions of youth. Pure Spanish-Parisian piss and vinegar.
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Refuse any image that could have a rational meaning or any memory or culture
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I find it [science] analytical, pretentious and superficial-largely because it does not address itself to dreams, chance, laughter, feelings, or paradox-in other words,-all the things I love the most.
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A writer or painter cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of nonconformity alive.
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Tobacco and alcohol, delicious fathers of abiding friendships and fertile reveries.
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If we could only find the courage to leave our destiny to chance, to accept the fundamental mystery of our lives, then we might be closer to the sort of happiness that comes with innocence.
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If alcohol is queen, then tobacco is her consort. It's a fond companion for all occasions, a loyal friend through fair weather and foul.
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You have to begin to lose your memory, if only in bits and pieces, to realize that memory is what makes our lives. Life without memory is no life at all... Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it we are nothing.
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I'm still an atheist, thank God.
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I can only wait for the final amnesia, the one that can erase an entire life.
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Frankly, despite my horror of the press, I'd love to rise from the grave every ten years or so and go buy a few newspapers.
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The Cinema seems to have been invented to express the life of the subconscious, the roots of which penetrate poetry so deeply
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Salvador Dalí seduced many ladies, particularly American ladies, but these seductions usually consisted of stripping them naked in his apartment, frying a couple of eggs, putting them on the woman's shoulders and, without a word, showing them the door.
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God and Country are an unbeatable team; they break all records for oppression and bloodshed.
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Like the majority of deaf people, I don't like blind people much.
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Mystery is the basic element of all works of art.
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Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our freedom, despite the fact that people keep trying to reduce it or kill it off altogether.
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In any society, the artist has a responsibility. His effectiveness is certainly limited and a painter or writer cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of non-conformity alive. Thanks to them the powerful can never affirm that everyone agrees with their acts. That small difference is important.
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Repeat, over and over again, in case anyone forgets it or believes the contrary, that we do not live in the best of all possible worlds.
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Thank God, I am still an atheist.
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Nothing would disgust me more, morally, than receiving an Oscar.
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