I came into the world under the sign of Saturn -- the star of the slowest revolution, the planet of detours and delays.

Our image of happiness is indissolubly bound up with the image of the past.

The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions.

The adjustment of reality to the masses and of the masses to reality is a process of unlimited scope, as much for thinking as for perception.

Art teaches us to see into things. Folk art and kitsch allow us to see outward from within things.

All efforts to render politics aesthetic culminate in one thing: war.

By close-ups of the things around us, by focusing on hidden details of familiar objects, by exploring commonplace milieus under the ingenious guidance of the camera, the film, on the one hand, extends our comprehension of the necessities which rule our lives; on the other hand, it manages to assure us of an immense and unexpected field of action.