# Luis Buñuel's most famous quotes

"Thank God I am still an atheist", reality without imagination and the obscure object of desire: Luis Buñuel's quotes on art, religion and his habits.

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- Jul 23, 2019 · Citlali Juárez
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## Top 10

1. **Thank God I am still an atheist.** (13 · ▲13 ▼0) — On religion.
2. **Mystery is the key element in every work of art.** (11 · ▲12 ▼1) — On art.
3. **Reality without imagination is only half of reality.** (11 · ▲11 ▼0) — On art.
4. **A film can be good, mediocre or terrible, but it must never be made against its author's conscience.** (8 · ▲9 ▼1) — On cinema.
5. **Fashion is the herd; what is interesting is doing whatever you please.** (7 · ▲7 ▼0) — On fashions.
6. **If I decided to burn all my films, I would do it without a moment's thought. I'm not interested in art but in people.** (5 · ▲8 ▼3) — On his own work.
7. **The Spanish know everything about French culture. The French know nothing about Spanish culture.** (4 · ▲5 ▼1) — On Spain and France, the two countries he lived in.
8. **Every desire has an object, and it is always obscure. There are no innocent desires.** (2 · ▲5 ▼3) — On desire, echoing That Obscure Object of Desire (1977).
9. **I like to eat early and go to bed and get up early; in that I am completely un-Spanish.** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — On his habits.
10. **Even today, when I remember my first sexual feelings, I seem to smell the fabrics again.** (1 · ▲3 ▼2) — On his childhood in Calanda.

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