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Peellaert's comic strips were the literature of intelligence, imagination and romanticism.

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Federico Fellini
Age: 73 †
Born: 1920
Born: January 20
Died: 1993
Died: October 31
Comics Artist
Director
Film Director
Satirist
Screenwriter
Writer
Frederico Fellini
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Strips
Romanticism
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Intelligence
Imagination
Literature

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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.
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A created thing is never invented and it is never true: it is always and ever itself.
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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.
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Don't tell me what I'm doing I don't want to know.
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Nothing is more honest than a dream.
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You see me in my most virile moment when you see me doing what I do. When I am directing, a special energy comes upon me. ... It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive. It is like having sex.
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Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be.
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Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets.
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Experience is what you get while looking for something else.
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Censorship is advertising paid by the government.
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I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and all the rest of it.
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The picture is in your head, in your imagination, everything.
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I always direct the same film. I can't distinguish one from the other.
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Marriage, if it is to survive, must be treated as the beginning, not as the happy ending.
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Our minds can shape the way a thing will be because we act according to our expectations.
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It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive.
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There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the passion of life.
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Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me.
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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 that I’m calling a province, this frontier country between the tangible world and the intangible one - which is really the realm of the artist.
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Everyone knows that time is Death, that Death hides in clocks. Imposing another time powered by the Clock of the Imagination, however, can refuse his law. Here, freed of the Grim Reaper's scythe, we learn that pain is knowledge and all knowledge pain.
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