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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 Venom and Eternity (1951)

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The flourishing of bursts of energy dies beyond us.

The rigidity of forms impedes their transmission.

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

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

Venom and Eternity (1951)

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.

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