I don't want what I am saying to sound like a prophecy or anything like an analysis of modern society... these are only feelings I have, and I am the least speculative man on earth.
Michelangelo AntonioniRead
I am neither a sociologist nor a politician. All I can do is imagine for myself what the future will be like.
Interpretation
What this quote means
The quote suggests that personal imagination is the key to envisioning the future, rather than relying on sociological or political frameworks.
Michelangelo Antonioni emphasizes the power of individual imagination in shaping our understanding of the future. While sociologists and politicians may offer frameworks and systems to interpret society, it is the act of imagining our own visions that ultimately defines our perceptions and aspirations for what is to come.
Themes
ImaginationFutureSociologyPoliticsVision
In practice
Example use cases
Using this quote to inspire a discussion about personal goals during a motivational seminar.
More from Michelangelo Antonioni
All quotes βAll the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to cut themselves loose, but failing to rid themselves of conscience, a sense of sin, the whole bag of tricks.
Michelangelo AntonioniRead
When I am shooting a film I never think of how I want to shoot something; I simply shoot it.
Michelangelo AntonioniRead
We live in a society that compels us to go on using these concepts, and we no longer know what they mean.
Michelangelo AntonioniRead
I began taking liberties a long time ago; now it is standard practice for most directors to ignore the rules.
Michelangelo AntonioniRead
Till now I have never shot a scene without taking account of what stands behind the actors because the relationship between people and their surroundings is of prime importance.
Michelangelo AntonioniRead
Similar quotes
If you stumble over mere believability, what are you living for? Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer. What is your problem with hard to believe? Reason is excellent for getting food, clothing and shelter. Reason is the very best tool kit. Nothing beats reason for keeping tigers away. But be excessively reasonable and you risk throwing out the universe with the bathwater
Yann MartelRead
History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
Karl MarxRead
How is it that we have created an economic system that tells us it is cheaper to destroy the earth and exhaust its people than to nurture them both? Is it rational to have an pricing system which discounts the future and sells off the past? How did we create an economic system that confused capital liquidation with income?
Paul HawkenRead
A journey never ends. Only the travellers end.
Jose SaramagoRead
Sometimes... sometimes I think the Asylum is a head. We're inside a huge head that dreams us all into being. Perhaps it's your head, Batman. Arkham is a looking glass... and we are you.
Grant MorrisonRead
Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye.
Samuel JohnsonRead