Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.
AGNES VARDAI never fought, I never learned kung fu or boxing, I never went into these sportif competitions. I wouldn’t cross the ocean.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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The mirror is the tool of the one who wants to do a self-portrait. And if you want to make a photo you need a mirror.
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I’m trying to capture something more fragile than a regular story. I love what people bring me.
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It’s a way of living, cinema. And I see my family, I do this and that, I travel. It’s a long process to let it happen.
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It’s interesting work for me to tell my life, as a possibility for other people to relate it to themselves – not so much to learn about me.
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But in a way we all have a Mona. We all have inside ourselves a woman who walks alone on the road. In all women there is something in revolt that is not expressed.
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My grandson says I’m punk.
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I was a photographer first.I worked alone. I did it my way as much as I could. I have been sort of courageous about doing things, because I didn’t think I should do less than my brothers.
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You can buy a good pasta but when you cook it yourself it has another feeling.
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I’m myself – knowing I’m doing a documentary and speaking with the people, telling them I have a bed, that I can eat every day, but I would like to speak to you. And they really gave me wonderful answers.
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I quit seeing some people who were saying bad things about women; I don’t even want to meet them or see them.
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I had beautiful jewelery around me, and when I lost I would take the jewelery and say, Service – being very generous, because it was very expensive jewelery. I would say, Tip.
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I didn’t see films when I was young. I was stupid and naïve. Maybe I wouldn’t have made films if I had seen lots of others; maybe it would have stopped me.
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Nostalgia doesn’t make sense, because it’s like bringing the memories back to be a special part of my day or to be part of my week. And I’m inside my memories the same way I’m inside my everyday life.
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People know it’s not easy, and even though you have strong feeling and desire and endless love, it doesn’t always happen.
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I never fought, I never learned kung fu or boxing, I never went into these sportif competitions. I wouldn’t cross the ocean.
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