Josef von Sternberg Quotes

• Shadow conceals—light reveals. To know what to reveal and what to conceal, and in what degrees to do this, is all there is to art.

  Josef von Sternberg

  Art, Light, Shadow

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• There are some things which cannot be learned, though they can be studied. Among them are the laws of art—and the lawlessness of it, as well.

  Josef von Sternberg

  Art, Law, Lawlessness

  Josef Von Sternberg (1988). “Fun in a Chinese Laundry”

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• The only way to succeed is to make people hate you. That way they remember you.

  Josef von Sternberg

  Hate, Work, People

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• A shaft of white light used properly can be far more effective than all the color in the world used indiscriminately.

  Josef von Sternberg

  Light, Color, White

  Josef Von Sternberg (1988). “Fun in a Chinese Laundry”

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• Every light has a point where it is brightest and a point toward which it wanders to lose itself completely. It must be intercepted to fulfill its mission; it cannot function in a void. Light can go straight, penetrate and turn back, be reflected and deflected, gathered and spread, bent as by a soap bubble, made to sparkle and be blocked. Where it is no more is blackness, and where it begins is the core of its brightness. The journey of rays from that central core to the outposts of blackness is the adventure and drama of light.

  Josef von Sternberg

  Drama, Adventure, Journey

  Josef Von Sternberg (1988). “Fun in a Chinese Laundry”

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• The finished product is not finished when the actor is. The work is completed by a pair of shears.

  Josef von Sternberg

  Actors, Pairs, Shears

  Josef Von Sternberg (1988). “Fun in a Chinese Laundry”

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