Isidore Isou

"The flourishing of bursts of energy dies beyond us."

"The evolution of art has nothing to do with the revolution of society."

"Your hissing and your booing make no impression on me, because from Victor Hugo's "Ernani" to Buñel's "The Age of Gold," Cannes Grand Prize winner, everything I have loved has always been hissed and b…"

"From the point of view of photography, I'll smite the picture with sun rays. I'll take old stock shots and scratch them; I'll claw at them so that unknown beauty sees the light of day. I shall sculpt …"

"In my pictures I would use speech as an extra dimension supplementing the image … Speech would not come off the screen in coincidence with the sequences, but from without, as if it were a surplus unco…"

"The Cinema is too rich; it is obese."

"I desire you, and all that comes with you. If I could only buy you and enjoy you, without having to go through all the formalities, without having to consider your personality et cetera … There is not…"

"There is no "worst" in what is new. Everything that has existed is bad, or else no one would have improved upon it by revolution and change."