Agnes Varda Quotes

My target audience is anyone who finds the world interesting and human behavior fascinating, terrible, inspiring, funny, and occasionally, mysterious.

Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.

I enjoy looking beyond the obvious and look at the stories happening all around me - you kind of formulate things in your mind and get excited about them.

Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

All the things worth writing about are outside me. I'm a lens, not a source. And even if it's not always a comfortable journey, it's always a stimulating one.

Use your imagination, and you'll see that even the most narrow, humdrum lives are infinite in scope if you examine them with enough care.

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.

If you pay attention to the world, it's an amazing place. If you don't, it's whatever you think it is.

You discover how confounding the world is when you try to draw it. You look at a car, and you try to see its car-ness, and you're like an immigrant to your own world. You don't have to travel to encounter weirdness. You wake up to it.

I'm excited about seeing things, and I'm interested in the way I think other people saw things.

Just because you've seen something doesn't mean you'll stop looking. There's always something you didn't see before.

I spy with my little eye a great story.

I have an enormous appetite to see life as I know it presented in front of my eyes.

I don't do a lot of research, exactly, but I'm constantly wandering through the world finding things incredible and remembering them.

When you pay attention to boredom it gets unbelievably interesting.

Children astound me with their inquisitive minds. The world is wide and mysterious to them, and as they piece together the puzzle of life, they ask 'Why?' ceaselessly.

Savor the mystery, Stephen, we don't get enough of them.

The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

I like to be fascinated by the people I photograph. Sometimes I don't admire them but I'm interested in them.

What drove me and kept me going over the decades? If I had to use a single word, it would be 'curiosity.'

It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.

The unknown is always interesting.

Touch a scientist and you touch a child.

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.