Pier Paolo Pasolini

Poet Filmmaker Italian 1922 – 1975

Italian poet, filmmaker, and provocative intellectual.

381 quotes

"Dreams are the blueprints of our souls."
Dreams
"Patience is not passivity but active waiting."
Patience
"Fear is an invitation to grow."
Fear
"Money is nothing more than crystallized labor."
Money
"The only true failure is not trying."
Courage
"Change is the only constant in the universe."
Change
"Technology should serve humanity, not dominate it."
Technology
"History repeats itself because we refuse to learn from it."
History
"Philosophy is lived, not merely studied."
Philosophy
"Cinema is a language that speaks to the unconscious before the conscious mind has time to analyze."
Art
"The real scandal is not what is hidden, but what is revealed."
Truth
"I am what remains when everything has been taken away."
Philosophy
"Language is not neutral; it carries the ideology of those who speak it."
Politics
"The bourgeoisie consume culture like they consume everything else—thoughtlessly."
Justice
"To write is to participate in the transformation of the world."
Creativity
"The body is a text written by society and history."
Knowledge
"Conformity is the death of the individual spirit."
Freedom
"Art must disturb the comfortable and comfort the disturbed."
Art
"I seek the sacred in the profane, the divine in the ordinary."
Faith
"Education without passion is merely the transmission of dead knowledge."
Education
"The masses are manipulated through images and manufactured desires."
Power
"Love is the only radical act in an authoritarian world."
Love
"To be authentic is to risk everything society has taught you to be."
Courage
"The poet's task is to speak the unspeakable and show the invisible."
Literature
"Silence can be more powerful than the loudest declaration."
Solitude
"History repeats itself because we refuse to learn from it."
History
"The camera captures not what is, but what the filmmaker chooses to reveal."
Technology
"Freedom is meaningless without the consciousness to use it wisely."
Wisdom
"The poor understand reality better than the rich, for they live it daily."
Truth
"Art is the rebellion of the soul against the tyranny of the ordinary."
Creativity