Aragon Quotes

“For J.-L.G., color does not exist simply to show us that a girl has blue eyes or that a certain gentleman is a member of the Legion of Honor. By necessity, a film by Godard that offers the possibility of color is going to show us something that could not be shown in black and white, a kind of voice that cannot resound ehen colors are mute.”

“We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.”

“Sometimes, you start with the drawing and then the gag comes to you in the middle of it. That is when you start working on the solution of the gag, which is composition, placing, equilibrium, and character design.”

“Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash.”

“Can the knowledge deriving from reason even begin to compare with knowledge perceptible by sense?”

“Suspense is very important. Even though this is humor and they're short stories, that theory of building suspense is still there.”

“O reason, reason, abstract phantom of the waking state, I had already expelled you from my dreams, now I have reached a point where those dreams are about to become fused with apparent realities: now there is only room here for myself.”

“What it comes down to is that anybody can win with the best horse. What makes you good is if you can take the second or third best horse and win.”

“It sometimes happens that pleasure blows anywhere it damn well chooses.”

“Your imagination, my dear fellow, is worth more than you imagine.”