[Talkies] are spoiling the oldest art in the world - the art of pantomime. They are ruining the great beauty of silence.

Sound has spoiled the most ancient of the world's arts, the art of pantomime, and has canceled out the great beauty that is silence.

Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.

To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity.

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences.