Marion Cotillard Quotes

If I have a style, I am not aware of it.

I just say I'm an artist who works with pictures and words.

Image plays a huge part in my music and in my lifestyle.

What I think of as style - and I've gotten to this over years of really thinking about it - is that style is the unconscious choices I make.

Our band has always been really big on imagery. We've kind of used that as one of our strengths; we tend to do that pretty well.

So I like to try to go back and develop pure visual storytelling. Because to me, it's one of the most exciting aspects of making movies and almost a lost art at this point.

Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.

I have trouble describing my own style, since it's sort of like describing my own eye color or something.

A style is not a matter of camera angles or fancy footwork, it's an expression, an accurate expression of your particular opinion.

But empirically I've come to understand that my photographs really don't do any harm.

I'm not an art director; I'm just not. I've always been somebody who has a sensibility that I hope is the same sensibility of others.

One of the difficulties of photography is that it is much better at being explicit than at being reticent.

In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.

We are image-makers and image-ridden... We work until we vanish.

Style is character.

Images have a unique power to impart that which is beyond words.

I trust the pictures to tell what I want to say.

A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.

I have these habits. I'm not a crazy artist. Or am I?

Every good painter paints what he is.

Words have great cumulative power, but in the 21st century, a single image is much stronger. An image suggests the unvarnished truth. That is its power and its fiction.

Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really.

It's too bad for us 'literary' enthusiasts, but it's the truth nevertheless - pictures tell any story more effectively than words.

I feel I'm all over my movies. I know my movies are all over me.

I found I am not an anarchistic form creator; I'm intuitive, and I'm trying to figure out a way to explore human fragility.