Quotes from Josef von Sternberg

The only way to succeed is to make people hate you.

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.

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

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.