The photographer in Blow-Up, who is not a philosopher, wants to see things closer up. But it so happens that, by enlarging too far, the object itself decomposes and disappears. Hence there's a moment in which we grasp reality, but then the moment passes. This was in part the meaning of Blow-Up.
Scientific man is already on the moon, and yet we are still living with the moral concepts of Homer. - Michelangelo Antonioni
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
A man who renounces something is also a man who believes in something.
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
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…
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
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…
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 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.
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
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 …
I can't give any absolute definition of what love is, or even whether it ought to exist. - Michelangelo Antonioni
I can't give any absolute definition of what love is, or even whether it ought to exist.
When I am shooting a film I never think of how I want to shoot something; I simply shoot it. - Michelangelo Antonioni
When I am shooting a film I never think of how I want to shoot something; I simply shoot it.
The script is a starting point, not a fixed highway. I must look through the camera to see if what I've written on the page is right or not. In the s… - Michelangelo Antonioni
The script is a starting point, not a fixed highway. I must look through the camera to see if what I've written on the page is right or not. In the s…
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