Josef Von Sternberg Quotes

Shadow conceals—light reveals. To know what to reveal and what to conceal, and in what degrees to do this, is all there is to art.

There are some things which cannot be learned, though they can be studied. Among them are the laws of art—and the lawlessness of it, as well.

A shaft of white light used properly can be far more effective than all the color in the world used indiscriminately.

The only way to succeed is to make people hate you. That way they remember you.

The finished product is not finished when the actor is. The work is completed by a pair of shears.