Scientific man is already on the moon, and yet we are still living with the moral concepts of Homer.

- Michelangelo Antonioni

A man who renounces something is also a man who believes in something.

- Michelangelo Antonioni

Today we no longer know what to call art, what its function is and even less what function it will have in the future. We know only that it is someth…

- Michelangelo Antonioni

We know that behind every image revealed there is another image more faithful to reality, and in the back of that image there is another, and yet ano…

- Michelangelo Antonioni

I always mistrust everything I see, which an image shows me, because I imagine what is beyond it. And what is beyond an image cannot be known.

- Michelangelo Antonioni

I think people talk too much; that's the truth of the matter. I do. I don't believe in words. People use too many words and usually wrongly. I am sur…

- Michelangelo Antonioni

A woman's sex appeal is an inner matter. It stems from her mental make-up, basically. It's an attitude, not just a question of her physical features …

- Michelangelo Antonioni

I can't give any absolute definition of what love is, or even whether it ought to exist.

- Michelangelo Antonioni

When I am shooting a film I never think of how I want to shoot something; I simply shoot it.

- Michelangelo Antonioni