Our only means of original manifestation is to vomit these … - Isidore Isou

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Our only means of original manifestation is to vomit these old masterpieces. Masterful spittle is our only opportunity to create within the Cinema our masterpieces. That's what Picasso stands for. He is a creator of deglutition and spittle, of old well-digested canvases.

Isidore Isou

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About Isidore Isou

Isidore Isou (January 31, 1925 – July 28, 2007), born Ioan-Isidor Goldstein, was a Romanian-born French poet, film critic and visual artist. He was the founder of Lettrism, an art and literary movement which owed inspiration to Dada and Surrealism.

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Pen Names: Claude Damiens

Birth Name: Isidor Goldstein

Alternative Names: Jean-Isidore Isou • Jean-Isidore Isou Goldstein • Jean Isidore Goldstein • Isidore Goldstein • Jean-Isidore Golstein

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It is said that the public is stupid. That's why those who hold it in contempt never dare to offer it something original.

In my pictures I would use speech as an extra dimension supplementing the image … Speech would not come off the screen in coincidence with the sequences, but from without, as if it were a surplus unconnected with the organism - a cravat of drivel hung on an ivory tooth.

There are so many films from which one leaves as stupid as one entered. I'd rather give you a migraine than nothing at all … I'd rather ruin your eyes than leave you indifferent.

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