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See beings and things in their separate parts. Render them independent in order to give them a new dependence.

Robert Bresson
from Notes on the Cinematographer

Supplement:

(paraphrasing Le corps au cinema: Bresson, Keaton, Cassavetes by Vincent Amiel)

Amiel quotes a long letter written by Rilke after seeing Rodin's workshop in Paris; the poet was so overwhelmed by seeing yards and yards of fragments that he began to suspect that viewing the body as a whole is more the job of the scholar, while that of the artist is to create new unities out of smaller, disparate elements....

Joseph Cunneen
from Robert Bresson: A Spiritual Style in Film