Great Throughts Treasury

This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.

Jean-Luc Godard

French-Swiss Filmmaker, Director, Screen Writer and Critic

"He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch."

"Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion. "

"A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end... but not necessarily in that order. "

"Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second. "

"The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea. "

"The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea."

"To me style is just the outside of content, and content the inside of style, like the outside and the inside of the human body. Both go together, they can't be separated. "

"Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self."