Mystery is the basic element of all works of art. Luis Bunuel More Quotes by Luis Bunuel More Quotes From Luis Bunuel 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. Luis Bunuel remembrancememorieslife The Cinema seems to have been invented to express the life of the subconscious, the roots of which penetrate poetry so deeply Luis Bunuel subconsciouscinemaroots The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time. Luis Bunuel depressingalcoholtime Mystery is the essential element of every work of art. Luis Bunuel elementsessentialsart 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. Luis Bunuel luckdoubtmissing-you A writer or painter cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of nonconformity alive. Luis Bunuel essentialsaliveworld I would give my life for a man who is looking for the truth. But I would gladly kill a man who thinks that he has found the truth. Luis Bunuel givingmenthinking 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. Luis Bunuel powerfulresponsibilityart God and Country are an unbeatable team; they break all records for oppression and bloodshed. Luis Bunuel teamworkgodcountry I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation - that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno - I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it! Luis Bunuel honorworkpigs 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. Luis Bunuel eggscoupledoors I can't help feeling that there is no beauty without hope, struggle, and conquest. Luis Bunuel strugglefeelingshelping Thank God, I am still an atheist. Luis Bunuel atheismthank-godatheist Refuse any image that could have a rational meaning or any memory or culture Luis Bunuel rationalmemoriesculture 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.' Luis Bunuel dreamtwoyears 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. Luis Bunuel destinycuriosityfundamentals Like the majority of deaf people, I don't like blind people much. Luis Bunuel majorityblindpeople Tobacco and alcohol, delicious fathers of abiding friendships and fertile reveries. Luis Bunuel alcoholsmokingfather Age is something that doesn't matter unless you're a cheese Luis Bunuel cheese-sandwiches50th-birthdayfunny 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. Luis Bunuel freedomsciencelying
