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

— 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.

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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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