Isidore Isou

The flourishing of bursts of energy dies beyond us.

— Isidore Isou

The rigidity of forms impedes their transmission.

— Isidore Isou

The Cinema is too rich; it is obese.

— Isidore Isou

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

— Isidore Isou

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 unconnected with the organism - a cravat of drivel hung on an ivory tooth.

— Isidore Isou

Our only means of original manifestation is to vomit these old masterpieces. Masterful spittle is our only opportunity to create within the Cinema our masterpieces. That's what Picasso stands for. He is a creator of deglutition and spittle, of old well-digested canvases.

— Isidore Isou

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 flowers upon the film stock.

— Isidore Isou

There are so many films from which one leaves as stupid as one entered. I'd rather give you a migraine than nothing at all … I'd rather ruin your eyes than leave you indifferent.

— Isidore Isou

Radio through television becomes a species of Cinema. Why shouldn't Cinema, in turn, become a species of radio?

— Isidore Isou

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.

— Isidore Isou

It is said that the public is stupid. That's why those who hold it in contempt never dare to offer it something original.

— Isidore Isou

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 booed at first. At the premiere of "The Age of Gold" the angry audience broke the theatre seats. What worse can happen to me, and how can that affect me? The seats do not belong to me.

— Isidore Isou

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 nothing as boring as human personality.

— Isidore Isou