Luis Bunuel Quotes

Mystery is the essential element of every work of art.

I don't want to lose too much of the mystery by hammering every detail to death.

One thing that's really important to me in my music is mystery.

I like surprises. I like mystery. I’m not the kind of person who goes to the writer’s room and goes, I need to know the whole story so I can prepare. No, don’t tell me anything!

Mix a little mystery with everything, for mystery arouses veneration.

Mystery is the number one conjurer of ideas.

That's the thing with 'Lost': you can put a spin on so many things.

I'm usually very attracted to things that I can't define. If something's too clear, it's very often not inspiring to me anymore.

Art is about imagination. When you look at a picture from Salvador Dali, that's about imagination. When you look at Picasso, that's about imagination. Doing stuff from your heart.

Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.

I'm really interested in the nondefinitive element of abstraction.

People love mystery, and that is why they love my paintings.

Mystery is underrated, and understanding is overrated.

Keep everybody guessing as to what your next trick is going to be. Don't become too predictable.

I love mysteries. To fall into a mystery and its danger ... everything becomes so intense in those moments. When most mysteries are solved, I feel tremendously let down. So I want things to feel solved up to a point, but there's got to be a certain percentage left over to keep the dream going. It's like at the end of Chinatown: The guy says, 'Forget it, Jake, it's Chinatown.' You understand it, but you don't understand it, and it keeps that mystery alive. That's the most beautiful thing.

Art happens-no hovel is safe from it, no prince may depend upon it, the vastest intelligence cannot bring it about.

Whatever inspiration is, it's born from a continuous "I don't know.

Would not it be best to leave room to mystery?

Art like life is an open secret.

Mystery is like a kind of atmosphere which bathes the greatest works of the masters.

[Mystery] is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.

Art flies around truth, but with the definite intention of not getting burnt. Its capacity lies in finding in the dark void a place where the beam of light can be intensely caught, without this having been perceptible before.

The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer.

The first thing we see about a short story is its mystery. And in the best short stories, we return at the last to see mystery again

Here's the truth you have to wrestle with: the reason that art (writing, engaging, leading, all of it) is valuable is precisely why I can't tell you how to do it. If there were a map, there'd be no art, because art is the act of navigating without a map. Don't you hate that? I love that there's no map.