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Artist, The
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What is an artist? A provincial who finds himself somewhere between a physical reality and a metaphysical one. It's this in-between...this frontier country between the tangible world and the intangible one -- which is really the realm of the artist.
-Federico Fellini
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Censorship
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Censorship is advertising paid by the government.
-Federico Fellini
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Film / Filmmaking / Movies
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Going to the cinema is like returning to the womb; you sit there, still and meditative in the darkness, waiting for life to appear on the screen.
-Federico Fellini
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Cinema is an old whore, like circus and variety, who knows how to give many kinds of pleasure. Besides, you can't teach old fleas new dogs.
-Federico Fellini, "Atlantic Monthly", December, 1965
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Language
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A different language is a different vision of life.
-Federico Fellini
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Passion
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There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.
-Federico Fellini
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Reality
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Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real.
-Federico Fellini
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Books by and about Federico Fellini